ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Give Congressional Districts a voice

History tells us why our Founding Fathers formed a Republic instead of a Democracy. These men insisted upon an elector that had capital interest in this country. Especially to vote! We now have parties controlling uninformed voters who keep them in power and voting our national treasury into the hands of such parties. Its killing whats good for the Country. Again, our Fathers were deadly earnest against such political parties - as well as mob vote! With our current “winner take all” approach to our Electoral College system, millions of American voters are grossly disenfranchised. Look at Nebraska and Maine they divide up the vote by Congressional Districts. This would force parties to campaign in a competitive manner, and stop the current swing state vote debacle. Take the state of California - it has approximately 53 electoral votes, divide that up by congressional districts and in the last election Romney would have received 15 of those 53 votes! Florida - 29 electoral votes - Romney would have 19 vs 10 for Obama! You can see that too many districts in America are not being represented properly in a Country which elects its president by an electoral college. Demand that your State Houses correct this Winner take all Debacle! Political parties controlling State Legislatures know this, and they cringe knowing the people can change the system! “Life is a series of Clubs - You’re either in them or out of them.”

justkillingtime

Simple solution: Allow all parties on the ballot along with no-party and write-in candidates. Have proportional representation in the House of Representatives. Elect the president by popular vote providing that if the winner of the national popular vote does not also win a majority in at least a majority of the states, then Congress can choose the president from among the top 2 popular vote getters.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Just killing time :Are you tired of all these cesspools controlling our national elections by the “winner take all” approach being used by the majority of State electoral College laws? There is a better way, as demonstrated by Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electoral colleges votes based on which presidential candidate wins a majority in each congressional district. This is not only a fair way to allocate electors, but it will result in the presidential candidates campaigning in many more states where congressional districts are competitive, making the presidential campaign truly national in scope.
Look at the chart below showing all the big boys controlling our elections.

Electoral vote count “winner-take-all”

Obama Romney

Florida 29 0

Ohio 18 0

Virginia 13 0

Pennsylvania 20 0

Michigan 16 0

Wisconsin 10 0

California 53 0

Total 159 0
“Oh” all those disenfranchised voters! Now look at the situation if each Electoral vote count was by each congressional district!

Florida 10 19

Ohio 04 14

Virginia 03 10

Pennsylvania 05 15

Michigan 05 11

Wisconsin 03 07

California 38 15

Total 68 91

This approach would really make the presidential campaign truly national in scope!

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Apologize to AuntiE, NOW!!!

justkillingtime

I don’t see this as an improvement considering how CDs are gerrymandered. There is no easy way to elect the president so that the national interest is served. A straight popular vote will still mean big states will out-vote small one and urban areas will out-vote rural areas and candidates will concentrate on these large voting blocks just as they now concentrate on the larger states.

A system that is not winner-take-all would likely result in nobody winning a majority most of the time, and this would throw the election into the Congress.