Comments on: Republicans wants to change laws to control elections

By: Pondering_It_All

Pondering_It_All — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:30:42 +0000

Republicans should be careful what they wish for: They can probably only make this change in states where they already have the majority, and the net result would be FEWER votes for them because they would lose electoral votes proportional to the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in each of those states.

To make up for that, they would need to gain Republican electoral votes from big winner-take-all states like California and New York, but they don’t have the votes to make those states change.

I enjoy watching Republicans shoot themselves in the foot as much as the next guy, but I think they are running out of toes!

By: griff6r

griff6r — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:53:18 +0000

Duh?!

Of course I would do away with the electoral college altogether. The winner-takes-all system does not represent accurately.

Consider a state that has 40 electoral votes but the popular vote is split 52 – 48? That is not an accurate representaion and makes the election about winning key states as opposed to winning the popular vote. If anything, electoral votes should be split according to the way the popular vote turned out.

By: Jim B.

Jim B. — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:09:06 +0000

All I know is that people over many years have been trying numerous and various ways to change the way Electoral College Votes are awarded, and each time more disadvantages come to the fore w/ the ideas than what is in place currently…and most, expert opinion each time states that it should just be left as it is.

Of course the Repub. are going to look for every edge they can to pull votes their way…because they don’t know how to attract anyone except well-off, older, angry, white men and women….this is their latest trick….while they continue their usual dirty ones like voter suppression through voter IDs.

By: woody188

woody188 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:39:58 +0000

This actually makes a lot of sense and would result in a more accurate election, if the congressional districts were drawn in a fair manner, which they typically are not. Which ever side is in power tends to rig the districts in their favor.

There is really no reason why we couldn’t have direct elections at this point. The technology is there, but the political will isn’t, because allowing direct elections removes most of the politicians control over the process.

Check out the following link for a good laugh on the current system. These guys are hilarious! http://vimeo.com/52383648