Electoral college

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Do you think the electoral college should still be used?

[Exultant Democracy]

1. Shoot I voted for no run off by accident.

Personally I think we are long overdo for another constitutional convention. We need to seriously re-tool our democracy while there is still something left of it.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. I would like to see it eliminated

but it will never ever happen in a million years.

The small states that benefit from it will never vote to give up their power.

[dtotire]

3. Electoral College

I agree--it should be abolished and there should be a runoff if noone receives a majority. This would make it more practical for multiple candidates to run, no one could be a spoiler candidate. Under this system, Candidate A might get 40 percent, Candidate B gets 35 percent, all other candidates receive the rest. In the runoff, Candidate B might receive the majority of votes. Those who voted for the other candidates will at least be heard.

[cobalt1999]

4. The small states want to continue to select the nominees and...

they want to have a major say in who is president.

It'll never change...but it should.

[Quixote1818]

5. Those of us in small states don't see anything extra anyway

It's all a feel good thing that makes us feel like we are impacting things and will get something in return but after the elections they just forget about us anyway. I agree, it needs to be done away with.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. How about we make representation in the U.S. Senate proportional to population, instead?

Frankly, I think the fact that 33 Million Californians only have the same 2 votes in the Senate as 400,000 Wyoming residents is a big part of the reason our government is skewed in such a fucked up, culturally backward reactionary direction.

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7. That's a good idea.

Wyoming has the same representation in the Senate that California does, even though California has approximately 70 times the population that Wyoming has.

[Thothmes]

8. Just do away with the Senate.

Lets do away with the concept of "states". Just make them satrapies of the Federal Government.