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[quote=Yagmi;16682]Plan would sidestep Electoral College - Yahoo! News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - If John R. Koza gets his way, American voters will never again have to wonder about the workings of the Electoral College and why it decides who sits in the White House.

Koza is behind a push to have states circumvent the odd political math of the Electoral College and ensure that the presidency always goes to the winner of the popular vote.

Basically, states would promise to award their electoral votes to the candidate with the most support nationwide, regardless of who carries each particular state.

"We're just coming along and saying, 'Why not add up the votes of all 50 states and award the electoral votes to the 50-state winner?'" said Koza, chairman of National Popular Vote Inc. "I think that the candidate who gets the most votes should win the office."

The proposal is aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2000 election, when Al Gore got the most votes nationwide but George W. Bush put together enough victories in key states to win a majority in the Electoral College and capture the White House.

I'm opposed to the electoral college because it makes the popular vote results worthless. This proposal sidesteps the electoral college, but then why have electors at all?

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Against.

And I'm against the delegate and super delegate system too. Obama has 700,000 more votes than Hillary right now.

That's a big lead. But they are still saying they are neck and neck.

Gore won the most votes in 2000. He should have been the president. But the Supreme court appointed Bush.

This isn't democracy.

The electoral college is just another trap so hypocritical politicians that say they advocate democracy get put into office by decisions made in smoke filled back rooms.

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I see both ways.
The popular vote bad because the masses are dumb, especially when it comes to politics, in my opinion.
The electoral college is bad because of it takes the power from the people.

Just about the only thing I agree with you on. This is not democracy, so I do not put much faith in the candidates or in the system.

I say one vote=one person. The candidate with the most votes wins.

Than your only option is to educate the people, but if they don't want the education, forcing it upon is infringing on rights. And how could one make sure that they aren't pushing certain ideas.

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The founding fathers never intended for there to be such a thing as the "popular vote." I think the system they came up with is a good one since they intended the states, not individual citizens, to elect the President. The idiot who cited the 2000 election as a reason to get rid of the Electoral College shows his clear stupidity - it isn't the Electoral College that was the problem but, instead, Florida's punch card ballots and Floridians too damned stupid or lazy to pay attention to what holes they're punching or to making sure the holes were completely punched.

The only way to eliminate the Electoral College legally is through a constitutional amendment.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

The United States of America is not, and has never been a democracy! It's a constitutional republic. GET IT RIGHT!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

But you don't hear about Bush saying we are in the mideast advocating "constitutional republics."

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