XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.tv.oreilly-factor, rec.arts.tv
XPost: alt.politics.elections
On 2016-11-12 13:30:24 +0000, Ubiquitous <
[email protected]> said:
After Hillary Clinton received more votes than Donald Trump but was
trounced in electoral votes, some of her supporters began calling for
the Electoral College to be abolished. The Factor examined that notion
with constitutional professors Gary Gregg and and Akhil Amar. "I favor
the Electoral College," Gregg declared, "because of just what we are
seeing right now. We had a spirited election with lots of people
involved, we have a duly elected president, and we are not re-counting
across the country. If we just went with a straight popular vote, with
more than 200,000 precincts in this country, we could be re-counting
across the entire country." Amar put forth another analysis. "There are reasons to keep the Electoral College, but the recount nightmare is not
the best reason. The argument for not having an Electoral College is
that we have 50 states and they all elect governors without needing
electoral votes. They just count the votes equally."
Actually we could effectively neuter the Electoral College and go by
the popular vote without a Constitutional Amendment, if a large enough
portion of the country wanted to...
We could do it by state law, and bypass the Constitution altogether.
--
"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy." -Donald J. Trump
6 Nov 2012.
(Yeah... no shit.)
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