As much as I did not want to see Clinton win I do want to state that I've been against the electoral college for years. I realize that the main cities of the country would be the ones in control but I also see that in that scenario EVERY vote would indeed count as a vote for the President. With the electoral college, not every vote actually goes for the President but for the state to go to vote for President.
Electoral College
Ironically, the only national voice against the Electoral College for many years now has been (hold on to your hat, lol)..... Donald Trump. I'm sure he's changed his mind as of Tuesday night, lol. Of course, this same thing happened in 2000, with Bush vs. Gore. But even after the re-count and the whole dangling chad thing and the Supreme Court getting involved (it was a whole lot messier than this time), NO ONE suggested any change in how we do this: Not Al Gore, not the Democratic Party, not a single one of the 50 states. Only Donald Trump. And NOTHING happened. NO bills were introduced about this..... NO statements came from either party.... Even Gore did not suggest any change.
We have a rule book. It's called the Constitution. We play by the rules. It's absurd to cry big tears AFTER the game is over and say, "But the rules I accepted were bad!" If that happened at a Little League game, we'd tell that little boy to stop crying and grow up.
The USA was not set up as a federal republic, we were set up as a confederation of states. Foreigners often don't know or appreciate this.... but in reality, a lot of Americans don't realize this either - especially since we've had a very big, very powerful Federal government since FDR began to create that in the 1930's. When FDR came to power, several US States had bigger budgets than the Federal government - and Congress only met a few weeks out of the year, with no Congressman being full time (they all had "day jobs") - oh how things have changed! And that FUNCTIONAL change had led many to forget we are united STATES. Anyway, the Electoral College comes (partly) out of that construction. There are advantages to it, there are disadvantages. PERSONALLY, I agree it should be eliminated (which of course requires a constitutional amendment - something VERY hard to do) but I've give a 0% chance that that actually will happen - the vast majority of states would have everything to loose and nothing to gain by that - and thus would have no reason to support the change (and it would take 2/3's of them to support it for it to happen). BUT in 240 years, there has not been ONE - not even ONE - effort to do that. Not even by the states that would gain (California, New York, Texas, etc.).... not even by those who got the short end of this (Al Gore, now Hillary Clinton, etc.). Ain't going to happen. What is, is. I'd support it but then I'm a Californian.
- Josiah
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