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Question: Should the United States change its method of electing presidents from an electoral college to direct popular vote (and a runoff if no candidate gets a majority of the vote in the first round)?
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Author Topic: Should we abolish the electoral college?  (Read 10650 times)
Joe Republic
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« on: June 21, 2011, 02:59:14 PM »

I'm in favor of abolishing the electoral college, and replacing it with a papal college.  A few hundred men selected by the previous few presidents get to decide behind closed doors who among them becomes the next president.  Much better.
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Joe Republic
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2011, 04:46:50 PM »

I'm in favor of abolishing the electoral college, and replacing it with a papal college.  A few hundred men selected by the previous few presidents get to decide behind closed doors who among them becomes the next president.  Much better.
So you're in favor of throwing out democracy, pretty much? 

Whatever do you mean?  The electors are still voting for a candidate, and therefore democracy is preserved.  Though I'd prefer it if the elderly men in such a college were also exclusively white and rich; something that the Vatican has let slip over the years.
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Joe Republic
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« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2011, 08:22:16 PM »

No, because then only voters in major cities would matter.

Rather like how only voters in swing states currently matter?
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