Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Our E*******l College works as designed, it is how the candidate is selected by the parties that needs to be addressed.


I think, if you want every v**e to count then a change needs to be made in how the candidate is nominated and selected to run for president and vice. Republicans use a straight popularity v**e. In general the delegates v**e as their respective primary or caucus v**ed. However, delegates are not bound by their caucus. If there is no clear winner, then rev**es happen in the convention where candidates try to convince delegates to support them, which is when you see candidates drop out and v**es change. For the most part Republicans follow the popular v**e. Although, during the convention even a new candidate could be introduced and win.

Democrats have what are known as super delegates. These are Democratic party elites, about 600 of them and they can override the v****g of normal delegates and of course popularity can be overridden. The super delegates allow the Democratic party elites to effectively appoint a winner or at least ensure someone tolerable to the elites wins. With no clear leader, the back room deals with super delegates means that they can nominate the person who they "feel", or makes the guarantees to push forward the super delegates agendas.

Consider this, had it not been for Democrat's super delegates....k**lary would have been running against McCain instead of obama...it was the super delegates who overruled the popular v**e. K**lary; popular v**e: 17,822,145 for 48.1 percent to obama 17,535,458 for 47.4 percent.

So, one v**e....one person? If you are a Democrat....probably not.

peg w

Our e*****rial college dors not work as it was designed. We have Trump as president

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

It worked very well, Democrats nominated a looser as a candidate.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

debeda

Thanks for pointing out THAT inconvenient fact
Love your new pic, Pennylynn !!! Magnificent horse

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

Amazing isn't it? Democrats demand that one v**e, one person....but it is their party that nullifies their v**e if that v**e would interfere with their agenda.

I will give the gypsy for you. He is a fine gentleman!!!

debeda

Democrats simply astound me with their ongoing hypocrisy - AND their histrionics

Kickaha Loc: Nebraska

The e*******l college works very well. It was intended to keep a very small part of the country from imposing its will on the rest of the country. If you breakdown the 2016 e******n results by state, congressional district, or by county, you find that Hillary won only in a tiny portion of the country. Without the e*******l college, you only need to have v***r f***d in a few areas with dense population controlled by one party. If you check for political corruption, you will find the majority of it occurs in areas under Democrat party control.

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

You are right, as it clearly shows on this map.