So now I don't get a vote?

Tramspotter · 04-03-2007, 09:28 AM

A Constitutional Amendment is what's needed to avoid all the BS if there is enough call for popular vote for President. Sidesteping it in practice is the same kind of usurption of powers that the Feds are guilty of towards the states. The majority in that state even if they overwelmingly vote against the popular votes candidate have thier "as a state voice" not reflected.

Some electoral college members still can still cast votes in states counter to their own states policys although in practice they nearly never do isn't that still the case?

Moonliner · 04-03-2007, 09:55 AM

I get it now, I still don't like it, but at least I get it. This is a push to end run the college nationally not locally.

I'm also not sure why we decided to start this, the whole point of the electoral college is to protect the rights of the little states and given them a voice. Last I checked we ain't no California.

innerSpaceman · 04-03-2007, 11:50 AM

But the mid-size states have ended up holding both the bigger and little states hostage. No campaign bothers to address the concerns of anything but "swing state" voters. Not that I want a barage of TV ads in California ... but just because California is, on the electoral college whole, a done deal for the Democrats, that's no reason (in my impartial opinion) to ignore the vast number of Republican voters in this huge, pluralistic state.

04-03-2007, 09:28 AM	#1
Tramspotter Show me on the bear. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: LA Posts: 445	A Constitutional Amendment is what's needed to avoid all the BS if there is enough call for popular vote for President. Sidesteping it in practice is the same kind of usurption of powers that the Feds are guilty of towards the states. The majority in that state even if they overwelmingly vote against the popular votes candidate have thier "as a state voice" not reflected. Some electoral college members still can still cast votes in states counter to their own states policys although in practice they nearly never do isn't that still the case?
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04-03-2007, 09:55 AM	#2
Moonliner 8/30/14 - Disneyland -10k or Bust. Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 9,022	I get it now, I still don't like it, but at least I get it. This is a push to end run the college nationally not locally. I'm also not sure why we decided to start this, the whole point of the electoral college is to protect the rights of the little states and given them a voice. Last I checked we ain't no California.
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04-03-2007, 11:50 AM	#3
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	But the mid-size states have ended up holding both the bigger and little states hostage. No campaign bothers to address the concerns of anything but "swing state" voters. Not that I want a barage of TV ads in California ... but just because California is, on the electoral college whole, a done deal for the Democrats, that's no reason (in my impartial opinion) to ignore the vast number of Republican voters in this huge, pluralistic state.
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