Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 16, 2024

I never encounter this problem. On social media, many people complain about the electoral college, but I don’t remember encountering people who try to explain it.

It’s a trick question: the Electoral College doesn’t work. It was supposed to be impartial, like the Supreme Court – okay, you can stop laughing – and choose the best candidate.

I might pay money to have people stop explaining to me why they are voting for a particular candidate.

But I think everyone understands how the electoral college works, just people hate it.

It doesn’t.

’Nuff said.

Just get rid of it.

I thought there was a move to eliminate it years ago!!!

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The electoral college should be a thing of the past. However, I’m sure letting the popular vote decide elections will never come to be. I think apportionment of delegates based on vote count would be fair. Eg. If a candidate wins 75% of the vote in any state, they get 75% of that states delegates. The resullt would mean that even Republicans would get some deligates votes from California (BTW, I am a Democrat in CA). Any chance of that ever coming to be?

That’s going to cost an awful lot, just so he’ll NOT explain how the College works!

Don’t explain it. Just stop it already. Have equal rules on voting nationwide and stop with those local and states BS.

I’ll explain how it doesn’t work for free.

It was created to give slave states more clout in elections, since they had plenty of people but most of them, being enslaved, could not vote. With a little slight-of-hand (i.e. counting slaves as 3/5th of a person) they were able to give their smaller voting population equal weight with the more populous non-slave states. Today, most Democrats want it gone, while most Republicans want to keep it because, even though no one owns slaves anymore, it minimizes the effect of the black vote in certain (Southern) states.

We just have compulsory voting here in Oz. It’s a nuisance, and is checked upon, and somewhat imperfect, but probably gives a fairer result.

“How the electoral college works” in one word: “Badly”.

Sounds like a college you’d like to graduate from.

It is simple, if you are against it, you probably don’t understand it.

Here is how it works. It protects states and rural areas from other states and cities with large populations from having undue power over them. It ensures that the minority is protected from the rampaging plans of majorities. That is how our limited government was wisely constructed. The Electoral college is only on of the many checks and balances to limit the power of government and it also protects against the “tyranny of the majority”.

Just remember this: The STATES created the Federal government, not the other way around.

Explain why no other country uses it.

Anybody for Ranked Choice voting?

The Electoral College was established so less populated areas of the country could not be overwhelmed by the heavily populated of rest of the union. For the sake of our younger generations, I wish the high schools would return to mandating classes in Government & Sociology.

Funny how libs want to get rid of the electoral college, all the while screaming about how (somehow) republicans turned the election into a popularity contest with “populist” candidates (unlike michelle obama or opra winfry…).

An ancient B/S law passed by the republicans!

To keep them in office even if the majority of voters elected another person!

The Electoral College absolutely works. For Republicans. Anytime one is Elected POTUS, with the exception of GW Bush after 9/11, they lose the popular vote. It would literally take an act of Congress to be rid of its stupidity.

We’ll have a lot more to discuss in 3 weeks and, whoever wins, it won’t be pretty.

Another big problem caused by slavery!

The Electoral College was put into place because the founders believed that people were not smart enough to vote for president directly. It was the same way with the senate. Before the 17th Amendment, senators were selected by state legislatures and not the vote of the people.

I would not have a problem with the Electoral College if it did not have the “winner take all” provision that most states invoke.

I think that more people need it explained to them why the Electoral College was designed and how it’s been corrupted to do the opposite of what it was intended to do.

Prediction: Kamala’s gonna win the popular vote by several million,just like Hillary did,but LOSE on electoral college votes…..just sayin’…….