Comments on: New Jersey Rejects Electoral College

Two States Have Now Joined Compact To Give Their Votes To Winner Of The Popular Vote

[boatdocster]

The right answer is to dump the Electoral College all together and go with straight popular vote - for that matter I''d do the same in primary elections (straight popular vote, candidtate with the most popular votes at the end of 50 states is the parties representative)

1) This would pick a winner only after all 50 states had voted - current system almost eliminates some states from voting if you have a strong winner early on

2) Take the selection out of the parties hands and put in back in the people''s hands

[thgdriver]

Just make the electoral college votes match the actual votes on a percentage basis,
Posted by cyberus

If the Democrats, Republicans, Green Party, Independents, etc. each shared a percentage nobody would Get a majority. We''d be right back to the supreme court again.

[thgdriver]

Hummmmmmmmm, if Jersey is so great how come they don''t charge to get in but charge to get out.

[thgdriver]

Who gives a crapp what New Jersey thinks. I understand a flying UFO landed there, Found no intelligent life and left.

[thgdriver]

if this had been the case 7 years ago, the world might look very different..

Posted by Quetzal666

Right and if this had been the case in 1960, Kennedy would not have been assassinated. Nixon Would have won .

But then again you Demoncraps only can see back seven years ago.

[thgdriver]

Democrats who sponsored the bill have noted that their party''s 2000 presidential nominee, Al Gore, won the popular vote that year but lost in the Electoral College.

Where were the same Demonrats in 1960 when Nixon (Republican) won the popular vote but lost to John Kennedy (Demonrat) in the Electoral College.

The Demonrats make me sick, they only want to change things when it suits them. LOL!

[klingon69]

Why make things difficult?
Just make the electoral college votes match the actual votes on a percentage basis,
Posted by cyberus at 08:06 AM : Jan 14, 2008
That''s a logical idea...you will be punished.

[undermyboot]

One purpose of the Electoral College was to give individual STATES more equal power, regardless of their size. This country was founded as a Federal System, with most rights reserved to the States. The Electoral College ensured that the big states (like PA at the time) could not dictate the Presidency, and thus have a stranglehold on Federal power.

Times have changed and there is no longer a need to "equalize" power between states. The Electoral College should go.

However, there IS a real need to reduce the power of the FEDERAL government, which has put its fingers in every nook and cranny of our lives. The massive power of the Federal Government DOES violate the intent of our founders and the Constitution they created. THIS is a much bigger issue!

[hwy71so]

"Go New Jersey!

I''''d certainly like to have my vote count instead of having someone else decide which candidate gets my whole state.

Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 10:32 AM : Jan 14, 2008"

So, if Texas votes 98% J. Ross Perot, you vote Perry, the rest of the country votes 75% Perry, you think the 98% that voted for Perot should go to Perry? THAT is what they are saying. The state no longer has a voice, the people of that state no longer have a voice. It is merely a vote of concession.

[quetzal666]

"He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything." - Joseph Stalin