Electoral college, you are a relic. Tighten up and off yourself.
Discuss.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Documenting the spectacular failure of individuals and institutions to function at acceptable levels.
follow us on twitter!
TUR Tweetfeed
TUR's Quotation of the Day
"Cuba Gooding Jr. is a terrible actor."
--Chinese Proverb
--Chinese Proverb
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(343)
-
▼
February
(90)
- ...this day our daily bacon.
- Dear Teens, Tighten Up.
- SuperTight Pit Crews needed for Tow Truck Operation
- Big cars, city streets.
- Woke Up on the Wrong Side of Tight
- In case you lack bowls
- Wherever Tight Stuff Is Sold
- Hey, Google, you listening?
- In a "Best Headline Ever" Contest...
- Pepper's chicken shwarma eating
- Killing me Softly With His White Econoline
- george bush: stop saying things.
- Tighten Up, Teech! Have a sandwich.
- The Footwear Post
- My favorite Neobamacan
- G minus G
- festering looseness
- Dream Big
- Grand Army Plaza: You Have Been Revisioned!
- Visioning Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
- Diva du Jour: Josh "Journalistic Integrity" Green ...
- Loose lips sink ships
- You and a Guest have Won a Non-inclusive Trip to ...
- Feeling Flabby? Tighten Up with Jill Blumberg
- Dinner in the Sky: WTF?
- Dude, You're Getting a... Piece of Crap!
- The Oscars Post
- Tightest comic strip of all time?
- Gross Sink
- Well executed artisanry.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Pop-Up Video was tight....
- Freezing Fog: Meteorological Phenom or Scooby-Doo...
- Someone's been tightening up...
- It won't hurt, I promise.
- Samuelson to Obama: Tighten Up
- Tighten thyself
- Diabetic or Drug Dealer?
- speaking of old sitcoms made current...
- Knight Rider v2.0: A Giant Ford Masterbation
- Scotch Mist
- Puppies: Super tight.
- Helmet of Mind-Computer Tightness
- Bring on the "Idiots"
- While we're at it...Most people are idiots.
- PBS, it's nutritious
- Magazine Reader Wishes She'd Averted Eyes
- Zach Klein sticks it to the USA.
- Aprietate, cabron!
- This movie is Rad
- A study in tightness confirms mission of Tighten U...
- Krasdale Fruit Circles Suck
- All CVS's in the District of Columbia Need to Tigh...
- Becca's Self Tighten Up for the Month
- Grammy Shwammy. Get me a Maroon Bull & Vodka Alre...
- Celebrating 1 Year of Tightness
- Bloody well untight
- Harry Potter and the Capitol City
- The Land of Enchantment is Tight
- Addressing common errors in English...
- Blue Moon Tightness
- Rolling Stone Runs Out of Music, Turns Tabloid
- Roger Clemens's PR person
- Can we go to Tightland now?
- Dear Georgetown University:
- John McCain: Lead-Tongued Orator
- Tighten Up eBay Motors!
- Tate is Tight - Alright!
- They should stick to chocolate
- South Lawn Project Revealed
- Hillz is da bom!
- Electoral College: Justify Your Existence
- TSA: Tightening Itself?
- Dear Avery Architectural Library,
- neighborly suggestions
- TUR Paradox Revealed Through Banjo Mishap
- I have no idea who this man is ...
- Master of Delicious
- Warning: This garment may attract killer birds
- 2 Things
- Vampire Weekend confirms ivy leaguers really are f...
- I'm looking at you, OXO: Your garlic press crapped...
- Mitt Romney Does NOT Record Funny Names
- The Tightness Show
- The Incredible Tightness of Being Marc Jacobs
- Huckabee: A Total Maniac
- So we were a little late...
- Chinatown Bus Edition
- WSJ...wow
- Project Tighter Runway
-
▼
February
(90)
Contributors
Posts
4 comments:
Since the Electoral College is apparently not going to speak for itself, I'll give it a shot and welcome corrections since this is far from my area of expertise, if any.
Pros for the current system (based on the wiki entry):
Winning over voters who could go either way, in states that could go either way, is the key to the system. In a popular vote system, the campaigning would be towards energizing the base and generating turnout to a much, much greater extent.
A candidate popular in only the northeast and west coast, for example, can't win. You need broad, national support.
Recounts are possible and election fraud is isolated. It sickens me but I think this is important.
Turnout disparities due to weather or other ballot races / initiatives are suppressed.
Interestingly, the current system allows each state to determine how its electors are divided (Maine and Nebraska's electors are determined by plurality in individual districts). However, it is not in a state's interest to divide electors proportionally because this reduces the state's importance in the system as a whole.
I call for a new system of electing Presidents. The Assembly. As the vast majority of the population of the United States continues to wallow in peasantry, I believe each State should appoint a select number of representatives to gather together in Lebanon, Kansas and determine who the next president will be; completely free of any farcical national election. It is the responsibility of the educated elite to protect the huddled masses from harming themselves by voting under idiotic pretenses like, "He wears cowboy hats, just like me" and "He thinks the Earth is only 6000 years old, just like me". Some people would call such a change unconstitutional, but I say, if the Founding Fathers ever conceived of the technological changes that would allow every dumbass citizen to have a real-time say in the outcome of the election, they would have made some alterations. Join me in my quest to save America from itself!
I say, "let the Swiss decide!"
Or Cuba Gooding Jr.
Post a Comment