You're completely and utterly missing the point I've been making about democracies vs. republics. If you define "democracy" with such a watered down definition as "a government determined by the people" then yes, you're right most forms of governments are democracies and it's a completely meaningless term.
But really, were just screwing around playing semantic games. The real point is that in our Republic, we have built in safeguards to protect the minority from the majority. The electoral college is one of them. We should keep it.
Their people get to decide who is going to be President, at least THEY should.
Their people already do decide who gets to be president, when they vote for one every four years. The electoral college doesn't negate this.
Oh please they all get a voice, and a vote. What's happening right now is the minority in each state doesn't.
Even if this is actually true and you're totally right, you don't have to get rid of the electoral college to fix it. You just have to split the electoral votes that each state gives out along the popular vote amongst that state. So why not just do that? Because frankly, you've got a snowball's chance in hell of passing a constitutional amendment, where as the split amongst the electoral vote can be put into effect by a change in state law.
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Date: 19/4/10 22:19 (UTC)But really, were just screwing around playing semantic games. The real point is that in our Republic, we have built in safeguards to protect the minority from the majority. The electoral college is one of them. We should keep it.
Their people get to decide who is going to be President, at least THEY should.
Their people already do decide who gets to be president, when they vote for one every four years. The electoral college doesn't negate this.
Oh please they all get a voice, and a vote. What's happening right now is the minority in each state doesn't.
Even if this is actually true and you're totally right, you don't have to get rid of the electoral college to fix it. You just have to split the electoral votes that each state gives out along the popular vote amongst that state. So why not just do that? Because frankly, you've got a snowball's chance in hell of passing a constitutional amendment, where as the split amongst the electoral vote can be put into effect by a change in state law.