[SinncmxM]

Problem is: you're both right!!

[plantBanceper]

The Electoral College guarantees that the voters in states firmly in one camp or the other will be ignored, while all the attention is paid to swing states.

As for a check against an unsuitable president, and a voice to minority opinion - these are more adequately provided by the Senate.

[bxxasxxa]

... and Zippy is righter than you both !

[arcaniagainee]

The problem is that the current system has winner and losers, as would any new system. In point of fact, the winners in the new system would be the losers if it changed. The system is set up so that any change here would require something pretty close to unanimity, so the winners from the current system can, and will continue to block any change.

The problem is the reluctance to shed the electoral vote system.

It was originally intended for two reasons. 1, to have it as a filter to any unreasonable action. If an electoral college wanted to, it could vote against the popular vote. I do think they would need just reason though...

2, they were set up to try to lend power to the states in regards to who gets elected and why. If NJ did not like someone (in colonial days) they could have ery well timmed the balance. Almost any state, or small grouping could have.

Problem is that now we have so many states, and so many population concentrations, the whole system is lopsided. I think they should start making it so that elctoral districts themselves get to decide where their vote goes rather than the state they are in. I know this will have all sorts of problems, including the creative border establishment of voting districts, but at the same time I would rather a states votes go teh way the state votes rather than what the majority, how ever slim, votes.

Another solution would be to just make it so that the winner of a state would get the majority of a states votes rounded to their advantage, but not all of them. This way, states like NY and CA would not be ignored if there was a possibility of getting some votes from these heavily populated areas.


But no. Black White, Red Blue, On Off.

Amazing that we, as analog critters, can be so digital about decision making sometimes....