RE: Scaramucci Out As WH Comms Director
August 2, 2017 at 12:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2017 at 12:33 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 2, 2017 at 8:42 am)A Theist Wrote:(August 2, 2017 at 7:19 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Yes, the EC has to go, because it allows the voice of the people to be silenced.No. It would be the other way around. With the popular vote states like California and New York would dictate policy for the rest of the country. Since we're a Republic we have a Constitution where every voice heard, even those states with smaller populations. That's why we keep the EC.
It wouldn't happen like that at all. With proportional representation in a new system, which way any state leans would matter much less than it currently does. In states that are solidly red or blue, the minority votes would still count, unlike the current system where in all but a couple of states, the winner takes all.
(August 2, 2017 at 11:54 am)Nymphadora Wrote: Wasn't Texas trying to do this a few years back?
Not seriously. There was virtually no support for it.


