Great find S-man. The arguement in a nutshell.
That is why each state has a guaranteed two electoral votes, regardless of the size of the state, as a check against the second part of the formula, which focused on population.
This was an inspired move. Big cities, which are the stuff of big states, while they traditionally attract wealth, they are also centers of poverty, where the vast majority of new immigrants trying to find their way, and old welfare recipients who never seemed to find their way, are found in their largest numbers.
To then create an election formula that depends upon the popular vote alone creates candidates who will tend to focus inordinately upon the poor to get elected. This is a prescription for socialism.
The Electoral College helps prevent this. It insures a candidate must balance his approach with rural, property, and state rights issues. It is one of many checks against direct democracy found in our Constitution, and is therefore a check against socialism. Leave it alone.
Small wonder Hillary's first act was to try to replace the Electoral College. |
