It is still up to the states. My own belief is that it would be best for all states to use the Maine/Nebraska formula for choosing electors. But that should be decided at the state level by the people's legislators, not by amending the Constitution or an Act of Congress.
The states get to decide.
Seems simple enough.
I like the idea of California, New York, and Illinois deciding on proportional representation for their electors.
If it hadn’t been for the electoral college there would be no Union at all. That was the compromise.
meh
Those who seek to fix that which isn’t broken are mischief makers
I wrote this about the Electoral College and posted it here on FR several years ago. It still holds true today.
A Republic, if we can keep it.
We’re hiding from the truth if we try to blame Obama for what’s wrong in this country and think we can mend the country if we can only rid ourselves of Obama, for Obama isn’t the sickness that afflicts us; he’s merely a symptom of the disease that is destroying us, and at this point we may be past the point of recovery.
Any student of history could have seen this coming, as our country is now following the path all previous Democracies have taken. An 18th Century English Historian, Sir Alexander Tytler Fraser, warned that a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship.
When our founding fathers met in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention in 1787, they were well aware a democracy was nothing more than “mob rule” and they went to great lengths to prevent our Representative Republic from becoming one. However, each preventive step our Founding Fathers made in our electoral processes to prevent mob rule/democracy were one by one eliminated by the Democrat Party until we now have an almost complete mob rule/democracy.
Ben Franklin, when asked what he had achieved at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, replied, “A Republic, if we can keep it,” and we haven’t kept it. We are now as close to a complete “Democracy” thus “mob rule” as a country can get.
Initially, a democracy/mob rule was prevented and our Republic was preserved through very limited voting rights. There were no provisions in our Constitution that established voting rights and it was left up to each state to decide who could vote and who couldn’t. Most states determined that in order to have voting rights, a citizen had to be a white, male property owner, and the U.S. House of Representatives was elected by this small pool of voters, as was State Senates and State Houses of Representatives. This mob rule preventive measure has been undone by time and four amendments to the Constitution until all a voter needs to be now is an eighteen year old non-felon U.S. Citizen.
To further limit the possibility of “mob rule,” Article One of the United States Constitution - Section 3: Senate, stated senators were to be elected to the U.S. Senate by the State Senates and not by the same pool of voters as was the U.S House. That “mob rule” preventive measure was undone by the Seventeenth Amendment to or Constitution that allowed for the U.S. Senate to be elected by the same pool of voters as is the U.S. House.
To even further limit the possibility of “Mob Rule,” the President wouldn’t be elected by the same pool of voters as was the House of Representatives but would be elected by an “Electoral College.” As stated in section 1 of Article II of the U.S. Constitution— “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . .”
As you can see, the only “Mob Rule” preventive measure still remaining in effect is the Electoral College that prevents the President from being elected by a “Popular” vote, and the Democrats keep trying to undo that one.
This “mob” is now a Democrat Party led loose coalition of Marxist Communists, Socialists, environmentalists, welfare parasites, abortionists, racists, race baiters, illegal aliens, and other assorted criminals comprising close to a majority of the U.S. population. What the mob doesn’t have in numbers, they make up for with voter fraud during elections.
No, Obama isn’t our problem; it’s the “mob” that elected him, and that can’t be fixed by an election even if we could win it.
All decisions about the method of selecting members of the Electoral College is left to the states.
Mathematical proof of the legitimacy of the Electoral College:
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/sep/math-against-tyranny
Real reform would underscore the original intent of having the States elect the president, not the “popular vote” of “every voter.” This writer appears to miss the point.
Well, that did a total 180º.
The real problems began when the state and national party apparatus took over the process. The Framers are rolling in their graves at the sight of presidential electors' choices being limited to one of two outright leaders of self-serving factions.
The Framers' President was above faction, and not the divisive leader of a political party beholden to those who put him in office.
