Only to idiots.
Because the United States vote for President, not their citizens.
I've noticed that feelings have been amped up in the current situation.
The wire services are constantly going on about this and appear to be encouraging the public to switch to a popular vote method.
Pollsters are conducting polls based on faulty use of inductive reasoning to transform the debate.
Voters need to be educated and have a stronger grounding in the fundamental necessity for the continuation of the Electrical College.
People who worship the “popular vote” should love our system...instead of one
“popular vote, we have 50!!
The Senate and the Electoral College together stood out against a one-chamber Congress and “popular” election of the President as bulwarks against the possibility of tyranny by the “majority”.
A Republic lasts only as long as its institutions obtain broad and diverse consensus, through compromise, across the land of the Republic, for most major policies and changes. It cannot survive with but a few super populated parts of the land lording over all the rest of the Republic in major decisions. The tyranny of the majority will create sectional, and regional divisions that can potentially either split up the republic or wind up obtaining a dictatorship.
The Senate and the Electoral College make compromise and respect for the minority institutionalized by the Constitution.
And total BS
I really don’t understand this seeming surprise about the electoral college system. In parliamentary systems like Britain and Canada, the people don’t vote for the Prime Minister, the majority party in Parliament does. Unless you are in the PM’s constituency/riding his name isn’t on your ballot.
The party winning the most votes doesn’t necessarily gain the most seats in Parliament so our system isn’t all that different than theirs, yet you don’t hear wailing and gnashing of teeth about how they conduct elections.
What’s so hard to understand, 50 states, 50 separate elections for president.
Interesting that liberals didn’t bitch about the EC when Clinton won twice.
Surprisingly, that genius lady in the Parade magazine—Marilyn Vos Savant, i think (who seems to be liberal)—just published a straightforward defense of the EC. “Because states with smaller populations don’t want to be controlled by states with large populations.” She offered the analogy of a United Countries being run by China and India unless there was a mechanism to give a less populated country like the US equal footing.
In the United STATES of America, the STATES elect the President.
Here ends the lesson.
Erma Gawd. The Commue Times at it again
Ignorance. The popular vote does matter, but it’s more complicated than that.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspx
Absolutely eff’n morons.
Mathematical proof of the merits of the Electoral College:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/from-the-archive-math-against-tyranny
We played rec b-ball Saturday morning, five games to 11, win by two. We were demolished twice, but won three close ones. Same deal; we are the winners.