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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (37906)	10/14/2008 3:31:10 AM
From: nigel bates	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>>One dirty little secret few discuss is how the judicial decisions are swayed by ones politics.<< Yes, judges make few good decisions when it comes to electoral politics. Look at how a Supreme Court justice gave LBJ's his Senate seat - that made Bush in Florida look almost fair. <g> I like this suggestion: britannica.com There is a simple solution to the problems created by the Electoral College. The elections of 1876, 1888, and 2000 – elections in which the popular vote winner lost the election were all close, decided by five Electoral College votes or less. But if the winner of the national popular vote were awarded eleven Electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, the extra eleven votes (twice the five-vote-margin plus one for good measure) would assure that the popular vote victor would also win the Electoral College vote and become President. The eleven would be too few to “nationalize” presidential elections, and the same dynamics that keep the two-party system intact would prevail. I agree with him that retaining the electoral college is important to prevent the fragmentation of national politics in the US: it is the prize of the winning the presidency that keeps the two parties from splitting first into regional parties and then into ideological or interest-based parties. It is likely that, without a two-party system at the presidential level, the country would break down to its constituent interest groups...