Major campaign underway to nullify Electoral College

[12th Doctor]

Has anyone ever heard of the "Iron Law of Unanticipated Concequences"?


Now, has anyone noticed how every major electoral reform passed in the last 30 years has backfired terribly?


That's all I have to say.

[12th Doctor]

No, acctually, on second though, I do have more to say.  Let me give you three easily anticipated consquences of this change.

1) It would destroy all political organization and the current political party system.  Parties and the political system are organized on a state by state basis, running stste by state campaigns.  You take away the electoral college, you remove state-by-state campaigns and thus leave the system in utter confusion.

2) Candidates aren't gonna reach out more.  If anything thaey are gonna turn even more to superchargin their bases because there is less incentive to reach out to moderates in Ohio or Michigan... they aren't needed to win.  All you have to do is keep pumping out people in Texas and New York.  Hit those population centers of your party hard.  Screw the rest of the country.  It will create more allienation, not more inclusion.

3) There will be more "manufacturing" of votes.  At this point, we can be pretty sure that there is not much need to stuff the boxes in Delaware or Mississippi, because we can be pretty sure who they are going to, and their electoral votes aren't gonna create that much of a ripple in the system.  However, if one vote can decide the election, than you are gonna have massive voter fraud everywhere and it will be so wide spread all over the country, that there aren't gonna be enough people to monitor it.

This isn't top mention the fact that going to a purely popular vote system is against the very foundation of the republican principles of this country.