Electoral college, should it be eliminated? Options

[sadolakced acid]

Should the electoral college be eliminated?

with it, a person could loose every state by 1 vote except california, and win california by a landslide and then loose the race.

with it, democrats in red states feel thier vote doesn't count, and republicans in blue states feel thier vote doesn't count.

if the electoral college were to be eliminated, then everyone's vote would count.

[*not_your_average*]

^ The electoral college is what caused the 2000 election mess. With the electoral college, it's not the people voting, it's a group of people voting on your behalf. They are under no obligation to vote for the candidate you picked. Since the electoral college isn't a guaranteed system, we need to abolish it so the people can pick a candidate they truly want.

[darinmoore]

^ The electoral college is what caused the 2000 election mess. With the electoral college, it's not the people voting, it's a group of people voting on your behalf. They are under no obligation to vote for the candidate you picked. Since the electoral college isn't a guaranteed system, we need to abolish it so the people can pick a candidate they truly want.

It may have been a part of the cause of the 2000 Election mess, but who is to say that the government has to be clean? It may have been a controversy, but every step that was taken (electoral votes vs. popular votes; Supreme Court decision) was all written down in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers.

Look at it this way, if the Electoral College were abolished and we went by the popular vote, all that the candidates would need to win is the popular votes in such populous states as Texas, California, and New York. Therefore, the smaller states would have no say in the matter. That is the reason the Electoral College exists.

I wish we didn't have it either, but it's the best we've got until some ingenious politician thinks of another way.