scrapping the system? NO WAY!
Posted on 08/28/2004 11:34:36 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
Wow the NY times is 2 for 2. But, wasn't this what Hill was pushing after the last election.
If so the Times will use her to push their agenda. Clinto/Times the agenda is the same.
Oh great, now the dems can go crazy with vote fraud.
The leaders of most other nations are not elected by majorites, but by pluralities (rather like all Democrat Presidents since 1944, except Johnson and Carter). In the parliamentary regimes, the voters don't even get to choose their leaders - the parties do, and then the voters get merely the choice of party or local party representative if they are lucky (as in Canada and Britain).
This nation does not elect any federal officials in a nationwide ballot... why should the President be different?
Do it for the children. LoL!
Apparently the Slimes does not understand the reasin that our founders set up the elecotral college. Small states are NOT over represented if anything they are under represented. If you want to go to a straight popular vite then last time around you would have ended up with Gore. The whole point of the electoral college is to make candidates work for votes from states and areas they would otherwise pass up. Look at the Bush Gore map of 2000....Gore came dangerously close to winning by focusing on the large population centers thus leaving out MOST of the rest of the country. The electoral college is massively better than ANY other possible voting suggestion that I have ever read....Read some history, under stand the nature of a republic, keep the electoral college
Electoral College is great, There should be a limit on the number of electors from a state before a state needs to split into two. California is insane, that monster needs to be split into three states.
Without the EC, candidates would just focus on NY, CA, TX, FL and a handful of coastal mega states. Soon, the fedgov representing these mega states would carve up the "hinterland" into a series of virtual colonies.
Of course, the NYT would love this outcome.
The founding fathers were brilliant.
"This shocks other nations!" -- NYT
Oh
We just gotta change the US Constitution!
The way that state votes, it might do well to find another way. Different parts of CA vote with the conservatives. They are just outmanned do to the rest of the state. imho
I bet that one would only have to go back a few months ago to find a Times editorial decrying any attempt to change the Constitution. Just run a search on the "Defense of Marriage Amendment."
Edited for intellectual honesty. If they're going to advocate radical alterations in the U.S. Constitution, they should -- at the barest minimum -- be honest as to precisely why they're so desperate to do so.
The Slimes need a history lesson.
Straight from the NY Slimes: Support for Tyranny of the Minority..
scrapping the system? NO WAY!
I thought hillary was going to get right on this about 4 years ago.The NYT would be much better off seriously investigating the charges against Kerry rather than batting the air with proposals to change the constitution. As it stands if the NYT likes something I'm against it.
Absolutely. If the popular vote was all that counted, candidates would campaign in the Northeast and the West Coast, with the occasional layover in Chicago. Screw the rest of the nation. It's a terrible idea.
This is the very reason that we should instead go back to the original system where the Senate chose both the President and the VP.
Our Founding Fathers were smarter than we realized.
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