It's hard to keep up on the Democrat's sore loser policy of changing the rules after losing and it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. Illegal immigrants voting, no ID, 16 year olds or abolishing the Electoral College?

As the saying goes; "If 5 lions and 4 zebras are voting on what's for lunch, you better hope you're a lion."

The Electoral College is an ingenious way highlighting the fact that we are the United STATES of America and by brilliantly giving over representation to small, rural states.

But I don't think the discussions really focus on that word, STATES. We are somewhat unique in that we are composed of 50 individual states and while there are federal laws that cover all 50 states equally, we still have a situation where individual states are dramatically different from one another.

I don't think this is something we can so easily throw away during a temper tantrum. I heard someone say once, and I love this image, 'the Electoral College gives the land a vote.' To me, that phrase means the sparsely populated states are just as valuable to the nation as New York, DC, Baltimore, Chicago, LA.  And much like living in Montana, Wyoming, North or South Dakota (or even traveling through their vast distances) requires a different mindset, so does our procedure for national elections. "The Land" deserves a vote and we entrust that vote to the people who live there.

But seriously, keep the electoral college.

However, we need to end gerrymandering.

I support the Electoral college, for the most part, I understand not wanting the tyranny of the majority...   but I do propose a civics test for all candidates seeking any office in this nation.

Eegore wrote on 03/20/19 at 09:55:05:


but they currently ignore the larger states, Texas, solid red, no reason to go there, California, solid blue, no reason to go there, New York, solid blue no reason to go there, etc....