Electoral Votes

Mandatory post on The Electoral College

Submitted by Dirty D on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 15:08

From now until this country falls apart, we can rest assured that every two years, there will be a long and agonizing discussion on the use of the filibuster in the Senate and that every four years, there will be an even more long and agonizing discussion of the Electoral College.  This is just one of those things that we, as Americans, have to deal with.  The original installation for this year's EC navel-gazing began with The National Popular Vote. Under this scheme, once there were enough states to have an EV total of 271, they would all agree to assign their EV's to whomever won the popular vote.  It was an interesting side-step around having to dismantle the Electoral College, and took advantage of the fact that the Constitution allows each state to decide how they will assign their electors.

Full disclosure: I'm in favor of the EC, but there's only a small part of this post that's about justifying it.

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