> It's been around for a couple of hundred years so it can't be that terrible.
Heh. If only everything that is old was good. The all-or-nothing electoral college system:
1. Removes power from all people, because they vote for electors not for the actual candidates.
2. Removes representation of people in both swing and predetermined states, because they don't get represented by their elector (all electors have to vote for the same party, not according to the fraction of their state that voted for party X). However, in a weird twist, not all states require that electors vote for the candidate the state told them to vote for -- meaning that they have insane amounts of power.
3. The way electors are assigned actually means that small states have more voting power than large states -- meaning that you can effectively become president if you can get the right 22% of the USA to vote for you.
Oh, and please note that the electoral college system came about because the founding fathers thought you (the commonman) was too dumb to understand how voting should work. So they gave the power of voting to electors.
Heh. If only everything that is old was good. The all-or-nothing electoral college system:
1. Removes power from all people, because they vote for electors not for the actual candidates.
2. Removes representation of people in both swing and predetermined states, because they don't get represented by their elector (all electors have to vote for the same party, not according to the fraction of their state that voted for party X). However, in a weird twist, not all states require that electors vote for the candidate the state told them to vote for -- meaning that they have insane amounts of power.
3. The way electors are assigned actually means that small states have more voting power than large states -- meaning that you can effectively become president if you can get the right 22% of the USA to vote for you.
Oh, and please note that the electoral college system came about because the founding fathers thought you (the commonman) was too dumb to understand how voting should work. So they gave the power of voting to electors.
Here's some videos on the topic:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RajY2nrgk
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUS9mM8Xbbw
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k