The Electoral system
George Adams wrote:
From: Charlie Choc
It would be interesting to see how campaign tactics would change, not being
able to focus on just "battleground" states. I don't recall seeing even one
presidential ad, but I don't watch a lot of TV so there probably were at
least
some showing here.
It seems to me that the candidates would make many appearances in the major
population centers, and few, if any, elsewhere. A handful of major urban areas
would decide the pesidency. I say leave the electoral college alone, but
improve and standardize the voting system to insure fairness and eliminate
controversy.
George Adams
"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller
If I were to champion any changes to the Electoral College, I would
consider that which Colorado attempted to pass...make it proportional to
the state's voting population. Consider this; let's say for argument's
sake that California had exactly 1 million voters and as it turns out in
this example, 499,999 vote Demorat and 500,001 vote Republican. For that
one voter's majority, the entire state's electoral votes go to the
GOPers. Hardly fair in my opinion. It should not be, in my opinion,
winner takes all. Something to think about?
Philski
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