Efforts to Change Electoral College Allocations

I hate the idea of having a year ending in 13.  Many buildings don't label that floor as 13 because it carries the connotation of bad luck, even though the 14th floor is the 13th floor.  Too bad it couldn't be 2012+1.

The Economist made a good point this week. National referendums are a good way to solve important constitutional issues and then move on.  Just think of the progress that would make in getting Congress to focus on the necessary choices to be made in balancing the budget for the next 30 years.

And finally, since Bush II won the 2000 election in the electoral college while Gore won the popular vote, I have been uncomfortable with the idea of the electoral college.  However, I have not been an advocate for changing the electoral college as such a change in the Constitution would no doubt be difficult to pass.  Discomfort is no reason to become opposed to something that had good reasons for being invented in the beginning.

However, if some states are going to devolve the concept of winner takes all for a given state into a division of electoral college votes based on Congressional Districts, while other states maintain a winner take all approach, we are moving the actual determination of the president even further away from the concept of each vote will count the same.  In Virginia for some reason, rural districts have fewer voters than urban districts, and from somewhere, I got the idea that is not unusual across the country.

So if this trend continues, I think I will have to become an advocate for doing away with the Electoral College because it will have become something manipulated by the political parties when elections should never be determined by manipulation.

For the record here, the 2000 Presidential election popular votes were:  Gore 50,999,997 Bush 50,456,002  Nadar 2,882,955.

Just think if you were one of the 97,000 Floridians who voted for Ralph Nadar.  Bush won by 537 votes.  Because of those !@#$%^&*() bleeping LIBERALS we have made no progress on Global Warming, we got an UNFUNDED and BORROWED WAR ON TERROR, we got a Supreme Court that has DESTROYED campaign finance law and (I will guarantee you that every female in that 97,000 is a supporter of a woman's right to choose), a Supreme Court that could very well over turn Roe v Wade.  I am more angry with the 97,000 than any of the 50,456,002 because it proves that educated liberals can be really stupid when it comes to voting and the policies they advocate.

So I say to liberals, GET REALISTIC.  Support a centrist path that the country can afford, while maintaining the core social safety net that everyone pays for and benefits from.  And that includes you AARP.  You said during the election you supported a balanced approach to entitlement reform, but now your emails are just say no to any changes in benefits and raise taxes to pay for everything.  THAT WILL NOT WORK!  The nation cannot have its cake and eat it too.  The sooner both political parties start to tell that to the nation, the sooner we will get ourselves on the right path.