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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
You may not understand why the electoral college is there. Without it, the population centers on the coasts would completely overrule states in the center that they have nothing in common with and do not share issues with. What is important to people in montana is not important to people in NY, and so forth. Issues for everybody need to be represented, that's the only fair representation, and it was set up that way by the founders so that just because people in big cities don't think that what happens in Oregon (eg) is important, the people in oregon still have some kind of say in the matter...  |
the electoral college is ment to give everyone an equal voice which, if it were the case, is not a bad idea. but the way it is the value of peoples votes is skewed. Here's a great site
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/sta...sFacts0626.htm it shows you, based on population and # of electoral votes, what the actual value of a persons vote is state by state. So if you live in california your vote is actually worth about .85 votes if you live in wyoming your vote is worth 3.2 votes that's not an equal voice. Also look at it from a one vote standpoint. If the election for oregon comes down to one vote and it's my vote whomever I vote for gets all 7 electoral votes. so my vote really is worht 7 electoral votes. If the same thing happens in california that one vote is now worth 55 votes.
The population centers of this country always have and always will run this country. You can win the electoral college by only winning about 30% of the states if you win the big states. With every other election in the nation we go with majority rules, whoever gets the most votes wins. the founding fathers had a great idea and in it's day i'm sure it worked great, but today it is outdated and only serves to cause more divide in the country.