Is it time to abolish the Electoral College?

Answer 1

Yes, it is time to abolish the Electoral College! In this day and age of computers! Let our true votes count!

Answer 2

We can't abolish the Electoral College. You need 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the States to vote on it. It's not going to happen because the Electoral College protects small states and places that are sparcely populated. It seems most people haven't been doing their reading. If the Electoral College were abolished, then Presidents would only campaign in highly populated states like California, Texas, and Florida. Somebody got it backwards.

"The Electoral College is intended to dilute the votes of population centers that may have different concerns from the majority of the country. The system is designed to require presidential candidates to appeal to many different types of interests, rather than those of a specific region or state. The College enabled the Founding Fathers to deftly incorporate the Connecticut Compromise and three-fifths compromise into the system of choosing the President and Vice President, sparing the convention further acrimony over the issue of state representation."

Answer 3

Yes - because if you don't live in a swing state like Florida, Pennsylvania or Ohio, the candidates don't pay any attention to your state after the primaries. The candidates take polls and quickly figure out which states are safely red and which states are safely blue - and concentrate on the swing states. As in the last two elections, whoever wins two out of the three swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio will probably become the next president. -

There is a realistic way to make the Electoral College irrelevant without a constitutional amendment. See.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com and

http://www.every-vote-equal.com/

Answer 4

The electoral college may have served it's purpose. When it was intstituted I believe that it was to assure that each state had appropriate representation based on their population. It has become increasingly a pawn in the hands of the rich and powerful. Certainly I believe that a populist vote is more appropriate in a democracy. Then citizens should "keep on" their elected officials to make sure that their values are not forgotten.

Answer 5

I have always thought that the Electoral College was a big mistake. That is the reason why we have so little voter turn-out. Because people know that there vote doesn't count. I guarantee you that if we were to get rid of the E.C. that this election would be one of the biggest in history. Just because of the shear number of people voting.

Answer 6

Yes, but this requires an ammendment & because small states are given an advantage (the smallest still gets 3 electoral votes), we will never muster the votes needed to pass & have the ammendment ratified. If you live in North Dakota, then your vote counts as 10 votes from California... sad, not fair, sickening, but a fact & it is almost impossible to change according to the way our constitution is written.

Ed

Answer 7

dear god yes, or at least make it proportionate to the state or per district.

ie if Candide a gets 23% of the votes in a state, he gets 23% of the electorates.

it would make the elections so much more fair

Answer 8

After the bungled 2000 Presidential election where the incompetent Bush stole it from the Democrats, I have to say yes. This system has since outlived its usefulness and needs to be scrapped right away. We need a far better system than that.

Answer 9

Lord yes. It was time twenty years ago, and its even more so now.

It was useful and made sense when it was created. But now I think the popular vote is more than enough to decide on a President.

Answer 10

YES! It's time to get rid of that crap. It's total nonsense that whoever wins Florida, Texas, and California is basically guaranteed to win the election. The whole system sounds like something a neocon dreamed up to pervert the system.