Eliminating the electoral college and adopting direct popular election would reduce the exaggerated and disproportionate importance given to Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas, and other small states.
I suppose you'll want to do away with the Senate next?
Personally, I think the Electoral College should be revised to where each state receives 10 electoral votes.
That way, NO PRESIDENT will be able to win the White House without having to win the majority of ALL states, no matter how lightly, or densely, populated. If a candidate wants to win, he'll have to win more than 1/2 of the states, not just a few select ones that possess the majority of the population.
Your kind of thinking is what resulted in the Civil War, Baird... You remember reading about that war, don't ya? The one where the more heavily populated and industrialized North alienated the less populated southern states to the point where they seceded and lead us into Amerca's more bloody war (even bloodier than WWII)..
Do we really want to revisit that period of strife?
I would hope you'd rethink your premise. The United States is NOT a democracy. It is a Representative Republic.
A democracy is more in line with a unicameral political system similar to the UK, Japan, and Israel. And we all know what happens when the going gets tough over there...
Someone calls for a new government, or threatens a "no-confidence" vote that seriously impedes the national leadership's ability to handle national crisis.
Look at Israel as a prime example.. Is that what you want in this country?
Regards,
Ron |
