Why do we still have an Electoral College?

[Seen the light]

I'm drawing a blank as to why we still have this system in place 8 years after Bush stole the election to begin with. Why no action to get rid of it at all?

[earthside]

1. Are you kidding?

If you have a wiring problem in your house, you want a college trained electrician. Any mistakes in the work and you could end up with a short circuit that could burn your house down.

[Yupster]

4. That's electoral college, not electrical college Emily

Oh. That's very different then. Never mind.

And what's all this I've been hearing about protecting Soviet jewelry. Don't they have safe deposit boxes in Russia.

And what about the eagle rights amendment? Their cute and all, but rights for birds...

And presidential erections in the news again. Isn't anything private anymore?

Loved Emily Littela. Favorite part of the show.

[Jamastiene]

2. Good point.

Those 4 people in Idaho do not need 2 Senators and god knows how many representatives. Geez.

[enlightenment]

5. Removing the electoral college will not impact the number

of representatives and senators each state is allowed.

The Electoral College is so far past its sell-by date that it's stinking up the entire democratic refrigerator.

There is absolutely NO reason we can't go strictly with the popular vote - even better if, like Australia, we required voting age citizens to vote.

[ProudDad]

3. Pukes who love it

Spineless Dems who love it...

2/3 vote in the House and Senate and ratification by 2/3 of the states -- most of which are pipsqueak little states that benefit disproportionately from that obscenity.


And your corporate capitalist masters who benefit MIGHTILY from the buffer from the "masses" that it represents.

[VotesForWomen]

6. there are many people on this board who will tell you that we need it. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. It makes for better television

Starting around 7 or 8pm eastern, we watch eastern states begin to turn blue or red. As time goes by, more states get crayoned in. Sometime in the wee hours, there's enough to pick a winner.

Without the EC, we would stare at a grey country map until the wee hours. Then the whole thing would turn blue or red. Not much drama there. Even DU would be too quiet for too many hours.

:hi:

[hfojvt]

8. because all experience hath shewn

that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I think I read that somewhere once.

Once.

[Tesha]

9. Because it allows Republicans to be elected when they couldn't otherwise be. (NT)

[Jack_DeLeon]

10. Because its in the consitution....

and nobody has gotten around to amending it for that particular reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. There have been no serious pushes in Congress to change this