Comments on: Florida Sen. Nelson Proposes Scrapping Electoral College in Reform Package

By: Barry davis

Barry davis — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:34:35 +0000

I think it’s time to replace Bill Nelson with somebody that understands the Constitution. The primary purpose of the Electoral college is to balance the votes of more populous states with the ones from the least populous states. Without it the candidates would only campaign in the Northeast and on the Left Coast. They would basically tell the rest of us to drop dead. We’d have only liberal presidents from Massachusetts or from California.

I do like the idea of 6 regional primaries if only to remove the status of everyone paying attention two two states for so long, but getting rid of the Electoral College is a bad idea. The popular vote is fraught with corruption with ballot box stuffing and dead people voting via absentee ballots, not to mention pets and house plants casting votes for DemocRAts. There is a reason why the people cannot vote directly for President and I see no reason to change that.

By: Norman Harrell

Norman Harrell — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:20:34 +0000

Oh, but Henry Clay is alive today, disguised as a woman.

dis·guised, dis·guis·ing, dis·guis·es
1.
a. To modify the manner or appearance of in order to prevent recognition.
b. To furnish with a disguise.
2. To conceal or obscure by dissemblance or false show; misrepresent.

By: Larry Kearney

Larry Kearney — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:04:19 +0000

I like the Electoral College. As a matter of fact, I wish they would follow it more closely. If they can’t do that, then at least give the candidates the percentage of electoral votes they earn from the popular vote in each state (ie. if a candidate gets 60% of the popular vote in California, he/she gets 60% of the electoral vote). I would like to see the electors freed up to vote for who they really want, without penalty. I know all that is too far fetched to ever hope for, but what the hey. I do have a Constitutional question of the premier Constitutional legal mind of the “Great One”. There is no mention of a “ticket” in the Constitution. As a matter of fact, it says that there should be a “distinct” ballot for President and a “distinct” ballot for Vice-President. As far as I can see in Art II and the 12th Amendment is that the states have the perogative of how to elect their electors, but after that they should follow the Constitution. Please explain this disparity for me. Thank you. I look forward to your next show.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:15:44 +0000

The reason why the Electoral College was established predates modern technology that makes voting so simple today. During the time of the founding fathers, it was more sensible to send a group of representatives from a state to choose the president, because collecting and counting a nation’s popular vote would be too time consuming, not to mention damn near impossible.

The only reason why this decrepit and out-dated system is still in place is because it works to the advantage of campaign planners. They are more able to sneak by with a win if the focus on a few important spots than if they try to get the whole country to vote for their candidate. This has happened five times in our nation’s history, most recently being the victory of George Bush.

One might argue that this is one of the last remaining state rights, that most of the others have been stripped by the federal government. However, the major flaw of this point of view is that choosing the president should be a federal matter. In a time where people describe themselves as American and not Californian or Virginian, it only seems natural that the whole of America, not the states, should decide on the leader of the whole nation.

By: John Sanchez

John Sanchez — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:22:27 +0000

I feel it is absurd, that the #1 Democracy in the world does not have a ‘one person, one vote.’
Are we (voters) that ignorant, that the Electoral College has to tell us, what is good for us.
Please, this is not the 1700’s. We know about the neo-con agenda.

John Sanchez.

By: Sterling Sorenson

Sterling Sorenson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:20:35 +0000

Hay Mr. farmer, I’ll let you rural folk control the electrol process if you stop accepting welfare (farm subsidy), but since you won’t stop demanding handouts lets stick to “one person, one vote!

By: agnes

agnes — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:50:59 +0000

Leave our electoral college the way that it is. Then we would have California and New York winning all the elections. This is another Clinton move. The vote should be by the land and the farmer who works the land. After all big business has tried to destroy the farmer but it is being proven that it is not going to be.

Wise up Mr Do Gooder Senator I am totally sick of all you do gooders. Next we wont be able to breathe free.