Who here thinks America would be better if people elected the president directly.?

Answer 1

Direct vote is better because the candidate with the most number of votes is the winner and true choice of the majority.

Answer 2

(Copies, Pastes old answer. Since we get one of these questions every day)
The Electoral College:
Pro: The Founders of this nation had a justified fear of complete democracy. They set up a system where supposedly wise men, elected by the people, and holding no other office at the time, would chose a President. They knew "There's a sucker born every minute". They made sure that there was an insulating layer of responsible people between the voter and the presidency. Thus there is some protection from the lies and deceit that went on during election season, then just as it does now.

Con:
1. Those who failed their civics classes, or who have never received any instruction in our system of government, continue to complain and question the Electoral College. This makes the sheep easily identified and led by the barking dogs.

2. Those who wish to take advantage of the gullibility of the average voter would like to do away with the Electoral College, in order to make their nonsense campaigns more effective.

Although the Electors of most states are "pledged" to vote for the winner in that state, and most face criminal penalties for breaking that pledge, there may come a time when the Electoral College is forced to muster its courage and go against the vote. This could happen in a scenario where massive fraud or corruption is found between the national election day and the balloting of the Electoral College. This could happen, and is what was intended by the founders of this nation.

Answer 3

Sorry to all those who are for the Electoral College, but there is no justification for the majority of the people voting for a president that loses due to an imaginary number created by population. Considering 50% of the registered voters don't vote, that would be a large number of people whos mere presence create a number of corrupt decision makers.

Read below please.

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source
Electoral College [(i-lek-tuhr-uhl)]


The presidential electors who meet after the citizens vote for president and cast ballots for the president and vice president. Each state is granted the same number of electors as it has senators (see United States Senate) and representatives combined. These electors, rather than the public, actually elect the president and the vice president. The Founding Fathers assumed that electors would exercise discretion and not necessarily be bound by the popular vote, but the rise of political parties undermined this assumption. Electors are now pledged in advance to vote for the candidate of their party, and nearly always do so. Thus, the vote of the Electoral College is largely a formality.

You know what the above is saying right? Even if none of us voted at all, or every one of us vote for the same presidential candidate, our currupted government decides whos president.. not us.. Beautiful isnt it?

To support the electoral college is to support us having absolutely no power in how our government is run. Do you really want our many senators who are given to states based on population and voted in by only 50% of our voters to decide whats best for our country and who our president should be?

I don't..

Answer 4

I have felt the Electoral College should have been gotten rid of for years. Each registered voter should have a vote, they should be tallied and that should be the new President.

Answer 5

Without a doubt. And it's not like you would have to change anything. Votes would still be cast and counted the same way and it would cut out an expensive government section that does nothing.

Answer 6

Right now we are at a turning point where you will see why our voting system is set up the way it is.
After the immigration bill is past we will have 20,0000 more democrats and the republican party will be gone. No more balance of power.

Answer 7

It would make absolutely no difference. The only time I believe the electoral college is in question is if the questioners candidate did not win.

Answer 8

I feel the election process is great, just hard to motivate people to vote when all the canidates suck

Answer 9

amen. as we can see from our president, representatives and senators, those elected cannot be trusted to vote the views of the people they supposedly represent

Answer 10

Yes! If we did this there would have never been a president Bush.