DesEtoiles
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Wed Dec-29-04 09:31 PM
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Electoral college: vote of major cities should have greater weight |
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i.e., make each state a mini-electoral college
Divide up the electors per region - and the counties where the larger cities are get the most weight.
In Texas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston are very close to blue or are already blue. If these cities controlled the electors, the state would go blue.
Shouldn't the most populous and most economically productive areas of each state control the state's electors in the electoral college?
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Wed Dec-29-04 09:33 PM
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1. I think my vote should be weighted 50 million to one |
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Edited on Wed Dec-29-04 09:37 PM by tk2kewl
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Then I would be the ultimate swing vote
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Wed Dec-29-04 09:43 PM
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2. Do you think the most economically productive voters |
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should have more weight as well? Or is it just cities? States?
The electoral college stinks and there's no way to fix it, except to make it go away.
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DesEtoiles
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Wed Dec-29-04 09:52 PM
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3. Big cities vote blue - let's find a way to use that |
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Wed Dec-29-04 10:03 PM
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4. I think only blue people should be allowed to vote. |
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Wed Dec-29-04 10:06 PM
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5. vote in our own Blue Nation, Yes, Yes, Yes, |
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Then we would have fair elections.
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Wed Dec-29-04 10:39 PM
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6. And shouldn't all rednecks have 3/5 of a vote, regardless of where |
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they live, on account of having 3/5 of a brain?!
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anaxarchos
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Wed Dec-29-04 11:16 PM
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7. This is no sillier a proposal than each state having 2 senators |
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regardless of population.
How about simply eliminating the electoral collage in favor of the direct election of the president?
The House is a joke through jerrymandering, which used to be a dirty term like robbery but which people like Frist openly brag about today.
The House of Lords, er, I mean the Senate is a joke with an eternal majority going to states with no population.
The Supreme Court is an openly partisan joke.
Shouldn't one branch of the "great democracy" be democratic?
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Wed Dec-29-04 11:19 PM
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8. We don't need and electoral college. They can't even be trusted to show up |
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or know the candidates name.
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