**** Elections thread *****

[MadMojoMonkey]

MMM, isn't your argument simply that the Electoral College is a form of gerrymandering which renders essentially everyone's vote meaningless aside from a handful of counties in a handful of states?

No.
That's yet another problem with the electoral college, though.

My point is that we accept a shit-water version of democracy when it comes to the presidency. It strips the popular vote of consequential meaning, and belies our stated faith in democratic governance. It's not as if the electoral college is an elected body, which would at least mitigate my squid rage.

[Poopadoop]

No.
That's yet another problem with the electoral college, though.

My point is that we accept a shit-water version of democracy when it comes to the presidency. It strips the popular vote of consequential meaning, and belies our stated faith in democratic governance. It's not as if the electoral college is an elected body, which would at least mitigate my squid rage.

I can see how the electoral college system is flawed inasmuch as it doesn't necessarily reflect the overall popular vote, and instead amounts to essentially 50 separate winner-take-all votes (with a more proportional system in 2 or 3 of the states) that are weighted in some less-than-equitable way by each state's population.

But you seem to also think the EC is corrupt and that it can decide who to cast its votes for independent of the popular vote in that state. I'm not sure that's an outcome that ever happens though, or at least one that would ever happen in this day and age. So still not sure where all the squid rage is coming from.

[Poopadoop]

I was mistaken. Wow.

http://www.fairvote.org/faithless_electors

Some of these people are real turds too lol.