Posted on 10/21/2008 11:14:49 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
Other than the Constitution, IMO, there is no greater part of the origin of our country than the design of the Electoral College.
Without it, 5 states of the 50 would elect our “leaders”.
Why? You like the winner-take all system subverting the Founders’ intent of giving small states extra clout? Despite the extra 2 electoral votes per state, presidential election power is skewed by the ‘blue’ cities, which are the only reason ‘blue states’ are blue. That 54 votes from CA for the left, despite Orange County and the Central Valley being GOP strongholds is exactly the kind of concentration of voting power in the hands of a populace state the EC was supposed to prevent.
Sure it would take a Constitutional Amendment, but it would return us to the Founders’ intent for the EC.
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