What do u think of the electoral college? How would you change the system we use to elect our president?

Question

What do u think of the electoral college? How would you change the system we use to elect our president?

Answer 1

I do not like it. We the People, whom are the public, should make the decision who we want to represent us. For the popular vote in many cases overrode the electoral college. It should not of ever changed, I think, and I disagree with Mercer Devil, we have come along way since 1776

Answer 2

1 - I think it's useful; otherwise, there are about 15 - 20 states that would have no meaningful input to who the President turns out to be.

2 - Raise the voting age to 25 with the following exceptions: People who are in or have served in the Armed Forces, law enforcement officers, firefighters, civilian EMS personnel, and married people with children. These exceptions would have voting rights granted to them at age 21.

Answer 3

I'd just send them to one of those dumb reality shows. First prize win it all.  

Answer 4

Personally, I'd abolish the whole process and have the presidential elections run on the one-man-one-vote principle where the popular candidate wins.

Colleges are open to abuse, you can restructure them to divide voters along party lines or to combine them along party lines (If you split a Democrat are up between two neighboring Republican areas, neither areas vote will count as they will be outnumbered by the members of the other party in their college).

I'd put strict restrictions on attack adds, including banning them for the two months leading up to the election, as well as forcing parties to release much more detailed public accounts of their donations and spending.

Answer 5

I think the electoral college is an antiquated institution developed when people had no idea what the issues were and therefore unable to make a sound choice. In the times we live in there is no reason to have a go between, there are vast amounts of information available via t.v., newspaper, and internet. People are smart enough to have one vote actually equal one vote. I would love for it to be that way, for us to stop calling our selves a Democracy when we are run like Republic.

Answer 6

The electoral college was designed to prevent populated northeastern and west coast states from stepping all over less populated states.  Know how politics work before you ask such ignorant questions.

Answer 7

I think the electoral college is fine.  I haven't seen any evidence that the American public is anymore educated than it was in 1776.  I wouldn't change the system, except put stricter limits on campaign funds and regulate ad time.

Answer 8

If there was not an electoral college, Bush would have lost in 2000 by half a million votes.  I would love to see it change, if for that alone.

Answer 9

I wouldn't change it at all; simply because that is how it was spelled out by the founding fathers.  As for those who would complain that we should be a democracy not a republic, we are both.  They are essentially the same thing.  "A government in which the supreme power is vested in and exercised by the people in freely held periodic elections". We are not a direct democracy, but who would have the  time or the inclination to vote on every single thing that comes up in the country.  It would be impossible to get anything else done, and is just not realistic for something as large and complex as the U.S. government.Or any other govenment for that matter.

Answer 10

I would gerrymander for my own political agenda.