(02-11-2020, 01:09 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: Why don’t you just come out and say you don’t want the electoral college?

One bad thing about the electoral college is that it requires the parties to agree on a single candidate before the election takes place, but it provides no process for them to do so. So states have been making this up as they go along, with Iowa and New Hampshire having these bizarrely early votes. Their voters always get more say and more choices than voters in other states, but why? Some states are winner-take-all, some are not. Etc.

The other bad thing is that a state will give away its electoral votes to a candidate who only won a plurality from the voters. Both times Bill Clinton won, he had less than 50% of the vote in most of the states he won. Most of the voters in most of the states that he won wanted someone else to be President. In those states, they should have re-run the election with only the top two candidates on the ballot, take away Perot and the minor party guys.

But other than that, it's a good system. A popular vote would be worse because it would still have the same two problems I mention above. And it would add a new problems about having to have a standard voter registration form across all states, having to do a full nationwide recount if there was ever any problem, and campaigns having to spend a lot more money and visit a lot more places. Letting campaigns focus on just swing states makes the whole thing cheaper.

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(02-11-2020, 07:25 AM)jj82284 Wrote: Romney couldn't get press because hes boring.  Trump got more press than any candidate in history because hes entertaining.

That's absolutely true.
But is it good?

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