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Originally Posted by Joshua G
no. its self evident that scrapping the electoral college will change campaign tactics. why should an honest observation be an argument to scrap it?
why should pols only have to visit new york city, chicago, miami & LA in order to be elected? would the agenda of the federal government naturally be biased towards urban issues? that was the whole problem in 1790, & it remains to this day.
if you want a government for the city folk, instead of the whole people, & want to scrap the power of states in our federalist system, & revert to direct democracy, the thing our founding fathers were avoiding, on purpose, for sound reasons...
liberals sound regressive when they want to scrap the electoral vote. too busy sitting in victimhood class & not enough history class.
next time try to appeal to the other side. dont just campaign in citites & black colleges. donald did it, got the reagan dems back. now you libs gotta get the center back. good luck with all that PoC extremism running amok in your party.
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The thing is, the people of this country are now spread all around it. In 1790 most of us lived in cities and those outside the cities were often left in the dark and didn't have a voice. That isn't the case these days.
In the last election, the popular vote was very close. Meanwhile, the census tells us that 80% of the people in this country live in urban areas. So why aren't Democrats getting 80% of the vote? The reason is because with TV, radio, print, the internet, and communications improvements in general, everyone can access candidates information and information about the government as a whole and they can form their own opinion.
I don't want to scrap the electoral college so Hillary could win. I don't give a shit about Hillary. I just think the electoral college is outdated, it gives too much power to some voters and not enough to others, and it encourages voter fraud.
Also, the reason his observation is a good reason to scrap it is because he admits to ignoring areas of the country because he doesn't think he has a chance of winning there. People argue for the electoral college saying that without it parts of the country would be ignored, but that is exactly what is happening with it.