If there were a prominent online effort to abolish the electoral college, would you support it?

Question

If there were a prominent online effort to abolish the electoral college, would you support it?

Answer 1

No. There's too much room for corruption that way. The more heavily populated areas would have control of the elections, leaving out the smaller states. The system we have has worked well and always will. If it works don't fix it.

Answer 2

No. I'm not prepared to have only the most populous states have a role in electing the President, leaving the rest of the country without a voice in the process. That's the area below that aircraft traveling from the East to the West Coast.

Answer 3

Yes, it's a scam by the two major parties to keep out third parties.

Answer 4

Depends what they want to replace it with (details, not just buzz words).

And even if I did support it, I probably wouldn't do it online.  Such a change would require a Constitutional amendment.  The internet might provide valuable tools to aid in the process, but it still would come down to voters making their voices heard, not just anonymous email addresses and IM user names.

Answer 5

Majority vote is better and simple - the candidate that gets the most number of votes is the winner.

Answer 6

LONG overdue.  It's elitist and undemocratic.  Get rid of it!  But I think it'd only happen if a right-winger won the popular vote and lost in the Electoral College.  In that case, there would be a civil war!

Answer 7

No.

The Electoral College is what prevents the 5 largest states from controlling all political power in the US.  (In a popular vote, these states would elect the President.)

Answer 8

No.  There are many advantages to this system.  And it can only be abolished by constitutional amendment.

Answer 9

No I would not since the electoral college evens out the states and allows all of the states votes to count.  It would turn the Presidential election to a popularity vote and the largest cities would have way too much power to decide what goes on everywhere else.

Answer 10

NO, a thousand times NO! Democracy is a necessarily degenerate form of government and the Electoral College is the last vestige of REPUBLIC in our country! Remember: Rome was a Republic that lasted nearly a thousand years! Our founding fathers gave us REPUBLIC not a democracy! We need to repeal the 17th Amendment and restore the Republic before its too late!

Answer 11

I'd support a genuine effort to abolish the electoral college and replace it with a direct popular vote, but an online effort won't cut it.  To be valid, you need a constitutional amendment.  That has to originate either in the US Congress, or from a certain number of state legislatures.  An online petition drive might drum up some popular support, but I think it has little or no legal basis.  If you walk in and hand your representative or senator a 30 page e-mail of people saying, "Me too!", he'll thank you and let you have your picture taken while standing next to him.

If you want to motivate your congresscritter to move on this, get a letter-writing and phone-calling campaign going.  His/her office should be snowed under with postcards, letters, and messages taken from constituents calling them.  And you'll need to do this in about 20-30 states to make it effective.