Comments for Save Our States: protecting Federalism and the Electoral College

Comment on John Koza’s Big Myth: “Every Voter Equal” by JrR

JrR — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:34:10 +0000

Oops, I meant Senators…

Comment on John Koza’s Big Myth: “Every Voter Equal” by JrR

JrR — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:32:10 +0000

A good example of this is the state of NY. The governor gets elected mainly by a downstate and Capitol vote, while rural areas really have no say.

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Cliff

Cliff — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:38:50 +0000

It used to be that the people did not elect the senators. They were appointed by the state governments to serve. Those in the House of Representatives were voted for directly by the people. I say return to that way and keep the electoral college.

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Guest

Guest — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:02:31 +0000

The Electoral College leverages your vote. In 2008 125,181,481 people across the country voted. In a popular vote system that means your single vote had the weight of 1/125,181,481. I live in Pa. In 2008 5,932,248 votes were cast in my state so my vote had the weight of 1/5,935,548 which is a lot better already. But wait, there's more! Pa had 21 of the 538 electoral votes on offer so my one vote could affect nearly 4% of the available votes for my candidate! Now that's a reason to get up off your ass and vote. The popular vote method is the equivalent of adding one grain of sand to a 22 gallon barrel. Might as way stay home and drink another beer.

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Wrightclick

Wrightclick — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:54:10 +0000

The Founding Fathers came up with the Electoral College to ensure the less populated states would be treated fairly. There were only 13 states at the time and several of them would never have signed on to a 'simple majority rules' government. If you were Georgia would you want New York to control the Federal government?

Today with 50 states (never mind what Obama tries to tell you) if you look at a red/blue voting map you can see the cities are the majority of blue (Democrat) and the 'fly over country' is the massive red area. National voting in the last three elections have been virtually 50-50. Without the Electoral College those in the Red States might as well stay home. Of course that's what the Democrats want, so naturally they're all for eliminating the EC.

We must not let that happen or our Democratic Republic, the great American experiment in Self Rule will be lost and we will be right back to square one with a majority ruler-takes-all leader. Is that what you want. Really?

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by GUEST

GUEST — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:54:32 +0000

Joel. Although your argument is logical and has some truth. Read the federal papers of thomas and others. The college was created specifically to ensure a REPRESENTATIVE republic not a pure democracy. It was imperative to the founding fathers that a few large cities/states did not have full representation at the loss of the smaller states. EC is an excellent source of balance and helps eliminate Chavez from Venezuala, or Castro type of government here.

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Trent

Trent — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:53:04 +0000

You're simply wrong about the reasons for the Electoral College. Really, who told you those things? Can you cite sources? Please, don't simply believe what some high school teacher rattled off one day … look into it yourself.

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Guest

Guest — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:40:28 +0000

We are voting on a president.. not voting in laws… makes no difference which state the vote came from.. one vote per legal citizen Guest

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Joel L

Joel L — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:13:23 +0000

I do not agree on scrapping the World Series But I am an advocate of scrapping and burning the Electoral College. The reason for the Electoral College establishment was communication, it took months to send word from one end of the country to the other. It made sense then to have delegates gathered together in one spot to nominate and elect our president. But that means now we do not elect the president…no that means we elect a delegate who then votes for the candidate. This is an outdated method since communication is now instantaneous. I say scrap the electoral college…I would like to actually vote for the president one time.

Comment on What is “National Popular Vote”? by Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series | Save Our States: protecting Federalism and the Electoral College

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:00:42 +0000

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Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Shay

Shay — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:09:52 +0000

isnt that just the saddest thing about where we are?

Comment on Poll: Americans Want to Scrap World Series by Shay

Shay — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:08:39 +0000

Rick, thanks – that makes sense. So yall are saying Ca, Tx, and NY have more people in their states than say Maine, so Maine wouldnt necessarily be able to be represented as a state in their needs. But if we ran gov't the way its constitutional and the feds only took care of keeping America safe, building roads and settling Supreme Court issues wouldnt having States rule states take care of that? If you agreed with the mindset in Maine you can live in Maine. If you agreed with the mindset in Wyoming you can choose to live there. I know living as the Constitution intended is something we'd have to get back to but if we were able to, wouldnt that make that system work? I do understand now why we cant do that now (thanks Rick for that analogy).