Posted on 02/12/2014 6:14:45 PM PST by gitmo
Because each state is a sovereign political entity.
Just look at what has happened to the senate and states since we started electing senators by statewide popular vote.
States with GOP super majorities still have democrat senators who do whatever the national party tells them to do.
The same reason the Senators are supposed to be picked by the States, to off set the publics House.
Thanks for the article. Thank God for the Electoral College I say. The only improvement I possibly would make on it would be to award the winner of the popular vote in each Congressional District with 1 electoral vote and the winner of the popular vote in each state 2 electoral votes.
The Electoral College diffuses and decentralizes power.
BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHA
HAIL TO THE THING
The electoral college is brilliant.
“Hail to the thing?”
What does that mean?
Why should New nlgland get 12 Senators?
However, the Dems have even beat that by targeting distinct districts....something you can do only when you have the huge population of our country. Philly is a good example.
The early voting and all the other "how to cheat" methods help.
Two per state.
states are so completely conjoined to that amorphous federal bureaucracy (the THING) they exist in name only (IMO)
we’re screwed
I agree... The electoral college does a great service of slightly diminishing the power of large population centers, and slightly exaggerating the impact of smaller less populated states. It changes the way campaigns are waged and strategized. It’s also why any notion of a national “popular vote” is spurious. There’s no such thing. If we had only a popular vote then the campaigns and the voting and the turnout would have been different too.
I use the analogy of the World Series. The Series is not won by counting all the runs across all seven games. The Series is batched into individual games each with its own strategy, and score, and a winner and loser. Then the team with the most winning games out of seven, wins the series.
It’s entirely possible that the loser of the World Series may have scored more runs in the whole series than the winner did, but it’s a meaningless statistic. That’s not the objective that the teams were playing for. If it was, the whole strategy and play of the games would have been radically different to suit.
States can do that if they choose to. Nebraska and Maine have implemented the exact system you’ve described.
Ah!
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
How many times is the word Democracy used in the US Constitution?
Electoral College was to further note that the states are not subordinate to the national government. The principle that it was “We the People” of the several states that created the federal government, and not the other way around.
Why should New nlgland get 12 Senators?
Why shouldn’t it? Why should Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Montana etc. Both parties could make a pitch to get rid of Senators in different states. Keep it 2 Senators per state forever.
Delegates at the last state convention here in Michigan voted to support that system. It was kind of a meaningless vote but it did put it on record that there is support for it within the party.
Basically it means Detroit can cheat all they want and they still only get the allotted votes.
I personally would like to do the same with senators.
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