I agree...but the solution is not to get rid of the electoral system, which the small states would oppose. It would be a dead issue and has been tried ever since the founding of the consitution itself.

I think it would be much easer simply to bar the 'winner take all' practice of the individual states, which would open up the system to other challengers. The other amendments (XIIth and XXth) would come into play.

Reasoning....

The winner take all system broke the electoral college and the system of voting for president (i.e. from five, to three, to a final conclusion with each state having one vote.) It is almost similar to IRV, but forces a 'majority' one way or another.

Could there be a better method? Perhaps. However, unless the 'winner take all' system were eliminated, it would still provide us with very skewed results.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Because those states have early primaries and the candidates hope that a win in those states will set the tone for the remainder of their campaigns. They're certainly not doing it for the dinky number of electoral votes those states have.

It's not nonsense. Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and look at the mess we inherited from his unpopular opponent.

Then the people would be even more disenfranchised and there would be even less accountability than now.

I still haven't seen any evidence to prove how the rights of smaller states are actually protected..

That's a lousy idea. That would still mean our choices would be governed by others and the people still wouldn't any control over who appears on the ballot.

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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."

Of course campaign events in smaller states have become somewhat of a moot point. Most people who show up are decided voters. With the technology we have now you can get loads more information online then any campaign event would give you.

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Great tactic don't like the facts say they were invented by idiots. Democracy comes from Greek. Meaning rule by common people. Where in people decide who rules them. The definition has not change. It means what it is Common Elections empower rules, rulers or representatives.


Because we have power and internet in in the rural areas of America. Something the Market did not want to do so they had to be forced to. Phone lines in the 40's It has happened over and over. Real equality had to be forced because the People could not take care of these things themselves. And the Idea that we would even still exist under the "Original Intent" Is naive at best.

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