The Electoral College under Attack.....

[redcliffsw]

Soros Pushing for National Popular Vote

The Electoral College is there for the right reason.  Socialists want a direct vote for President.

http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/forum/topic/show?id=2600775%3ATopic%3A4150675&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

[flintauqua]

Here's one I can agree with redcliffsw on.  The Founding Fathers set the Electoral system up as one of the means (the other being the Senate) to balance the interests of low population states vs. large population states, and it continues to dampen the effect of concentration of population in a handful of states such as CA, TX, IL, NY, etc.  Without the Electoral system, small, mainly rural states would have vastly less say in who the cheif executive of the United States is than they do now.

And this stance is actually counter to another desire of mine - a candidate from the center, such as Bloomberg, or anyone else who might run as a third party candidate.  Because the two-party system controls who will sit as electors, the same thing will happen to them that happened to Perot.  A centrist, independent candidate could theoretically take a majority of the popular vote, but end up with exactly zero electoral votes.

The only tweaking of the Electoral system I would consider (I didn't say support, I said consider) would be awarding the electoral vote based on popular vote within each congressional district, with the winner of the state taking the two that represent the two Senators of each state.  I haven't researched that idea enough to know if it historically would have been a net gain to the left or the right, but perhaps it would give a third-party candidate a chance at a few electoral votes.

[Patriot]

And this stance is actually counter to another desire of mine - a candidate from the center, such as Bloomberg...

I agree the Electoral College system serves a critical function.

But Bloomberg?  Would that be the same Bloomberg that wants to tax sugar & regulate salt in restaurants?  The social engineer, regulation king Bloomberg.  Center?  I don't think so.

[Roma Jean Turner]

Not to mention his anti 2nd Amendment stance.  Someone will have to be a lot more towards the center to get my vote.