http://www.mtdemocrat.com/letters/electoral-college/ California's Oldest Newspaper - Est. 1851 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:32:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/letters/electoral-college/comment-page-1/#comment-361911 kgg Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:43:31 +0000 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=255559#comment-361911 president obama won more than 50% of the popular vote – in this election, the electoral college was not the deciding factor.

]]> http://www.mtdemocrat.com/letters/electoral-college/comment-page-1/#comment-358984 Mike Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:13:43 +0000 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=255559#comment-358984 Terry the EC is far from making thing “fair” or “equal.” Our government is broken and this is yet another system that needs some attention.

]]> http://www.mtdemocrat.com/letters/electoral-college/comment-page-1/#comment-358954 Terry Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:36:03 +0000 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=255559#comment-358954 Pat, let me suggest that you look up and study the differences, pro and con, of a republic versus a democracy. We are a democratic republic. It is a union of sovereign and equal states. The makeup of congress and the EC were designed to reflect this point. The House was elected directly by the people while the Senate was, originally appointed by the state legislatures. Thus the House represented the people and the Senate the states. The XVII Amendment changed this relationship thus making both houses report directly to the people. As a result we have seen erosion of state’s rights for the last 100 years. The federal government has assumed more power and authority then it was every supposed to have. The Electoral College was designed to prevent the larger states and cities from totally dominating the new republic. Those issues still exist as the large cities on both costs and around the Great Lakes essentially pick the president. The problem is not the EC but the fact that one party dominates the large metropolitan areas and often the surrounding state. One reason we have a representative democracy is to isolate the people from the treasury. Democracy fails once the masses realize they can raid the treasury and pay the money to themselves. We are approaching that tipping point. Be very careful about implementing more direct democracy.

]]> http://www.mtdemocrat.com/letters/electoral-college/comment-page-1/#comment-358414 Anthony Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:19:18 +0000 http://www.mtdemocrat.com/?p=255559#comment-358414 The Electoral College system was established in Article 2 Section 1 of the US Constitution. The states have discretion over how the electors are allocated. But to completely abolish the EC and move to a popular vote system, would require amending the Constitution.

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