With some posters claiming that the electors can vote any way they want, it confirms the fact that we will soon have a democracy, where the popular vote rules.
As far as I am concerned, I don’t care if it was addressed in the Constitution, the way we have been doing it makes sense...OR no need for electoral system at all.
The small states should be pleased with this...and so should we ALL.
If we end up with a pure "Democracy" as some FReepers keep claiming we're "in danger" of becoming ("mob rule", blah blah blah), I hope someone gives these tyrannical activist federal judges the memo that they MUST obey the wishes of "the majority", and are bound to respect WHATEVER the "popular vote" on any given topic was.
So, time to reinstate Prop. 187, the people of California CLEARLY voted to cut off ALL benefits for illegal aliens, so they MUST do what the majority wanted in that case.
Have to reinstate the Defense of Marriage act too, and EVERY single state referendum that defined marriage as a union of one man and one woman. Can't have ANY type of national decree legalizing gay marriage from coast to coast, cuz so many states flat out voted AGAINST it!
Personality I think these federal judges will obey "the majority" and "the will of the people" when hell freezes over, but hey, that's just me...
Liberal political elite only care about the "popular vote" when it goes there way.
If you read the words of Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #84, I think he intended as I wrote -- that the states would select Electors as a caucus of leading thoughtful people. That is NOT how it's done today.
Today, the candidates assemble slates of partisan electors who run as a bloc (represented by the candidate's name on the ballot). The winning candidate gets to send his bloc of electors to the Electoral College.
I would like to see electors run on their own merits and NOT as a party slate. I wouldn't mind a system where electors run independently in each Congressional district, and the voters choose their own electors one by one - no statewide slates. The state legislature can choose the two electors who represent the Senate Electoral College votes.
-PJ