The Far left trying to get rid of the Electoral College

[Paranoid Android]

"Sorry democracy, you can't win the election in our country."


People have been complaining about this undemocratic system for decades.

Want to know who complained about it too?

Goodness, I love the Orange Turd when he has a past tweet to show his hypocrisy.

I'm betting you will not get a reply from alt account-Boi.

[Bdatik]

The electoral college isn't going anywhere. With the electoral college every vote matters. Without the electoral college someone's vote would only matter if their candidate won. Also the title "President of the United States" wouldn't be accurate if we went to a popular vote system.

Was this sarcasm and you forgot the /s?

[Paranoid Android]

Have you seen todays tirade?
With the new low of 'rocketboy'?

Oh yes. Any other POTUS this would be yuuge. Just another weekend tweet by the Orange Turd while he was probably taking a turd.

[Sorshen]

Meanwhile, in the Upside Down...

The electoral college isn't going anywhere. With the electoral college every vote matters. Without the electoral college someone's vote would only matter if their candidate won. Also the title "President of the United States" wouldn't be accurate if we went to a popular vote system.

... people really think like this.

[Stelio Kontos]

[Sorshen]

Slate is garbage anyway.

[Endus]

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Article 1: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...l_college.html
Article 2: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...nd_sexism.html

First is an article written by a US Court of Appeals judge, Richard Posner.
Second is a blog post by Mark Joseph Stern, a Slate writer.

News media organizations like Slate don't pick a particular viewpoint and only publish articles that lean a particular way, so this doesn't even reflect any particular shift in anything at Slate itself.

Here's another article a month before the first, which lambasts the Electoral College rather than defending it; http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20..._horrible.html

So all you've really discovered is the magical fact that "different authors have different opinions about stuff". Shocking and amazing stuff.

[Daelak]

The electoral college isn't going anywhere. With the electoral college every vote matters. Without the electoral college someone's vote would only matter if their candidate won. Also the title "President of the United States" wouldn't be accurate if we went to a popular vote system.

Yes it would. The EC is a relic of one of the biggest blunders during ratification. If the New Englanders and Midlanders saw what transpired the decades after they conceded democratic ideals for appeasement from the southern states, they wouldn't have done it, and two countries would of formed. The Electoral College, the Senate, and the 3/5th compromise all deserve to be removed from the constitution, for they don't represent democratic ideals, but strengthening authoritarian desires in southern states to control their population.

[Kujako]

You do understand, that Slate is not a single person?

[Felya]

You do understand, that Slate is not a single person?

Yes, but the effect of convincing people that news is am ideological hive mind, is that people are likely to find hypocracy like this. Simply because the alternative is that your initial premise is wrong and the ego is strong. To be a hypocrite, you have to own the claim, not have it be thrust upon you. When you contradict the claim being made about you, it doesn't mean you are a hypocrite, it means the claim is just wrong.

As an example... if someone convinces you that Chuck hates everyone who eats chocolate, if you catch him eating chocolate... then who ever convinced you is simply wrong. Chuck isn't the one who claimed to hate everyone who eats chocolate.

[Mayhem]

As an example... if someone convinces you that Chuck hates everyone who eats chocolate, if you catch him eating chocolate... then who ever convinced you is simply wrong. Chuck isn't the one who claimed to hate everyone who eats chocolate.

What if chuck suffers from self-hate and is eating chocolate for that reason?

[Xeones]

The electoral college isn't going anywhere. With the electoral college every vote matters. Without the electoral college someone's vote would only matter if their candidate won. Also the title "President of the United States" wouldn't be accurate if we went to a popular vote system.

I know your gimmick is to post insane bull shit but wow, you really out did yourself.

Only battle ground state votes matter.

By that logic it only matters if you win period.

President of the United States wouldn't be accurate if the position was held by the person the people chose.

What the fuck dude.

[Felya]

What if chuck suffers from self-hate and is eating chocolate for that reason?

It all depends on the amount of wood Buck can provide for the chucking.

[melodramocracy]

EC has always been a flawed system, period. It, like many other elements of political campaigns, needs to be reworked.

[Fugus]

EC has always been a flawed system, period. It, like many other elements of political campaigns, needs to be reworked.

Needs to be removed entirely and everything moved to a ranked popular vote.

The only purpose it really ever served was to give a group of insiders the final say on who became president as a way to protect them from the will of the people. The everything else, the 3/5ths compromise, the giving smaller states more votes, was all just compromises to get to that end.

[Very Tired]

If you support the ideals of the EC system, you should also be supporting the same system for even state wide elections. When it comes to picking a governor, why should those city slicker's vote count just as much as the people living out in the country? Everyone knows people in the city are hive minded and only vote one way, the rights of the minority must be protected!