Four more years, just ask a Princeton Professor

[falsefashion]

Electoral College Meta-Analysis
From Prof. Sam Wang of Princeton University.

For the record, this Professor is a Democrat and you can see in this report he himself admits to this.
"Although the calculation is unbiased, I am not. I am a Democrat and I donate to key races" ( Read more... )

Comments

[isorion]

Personally, I think the Electoral College is an archaeic and outdated institution, which needs to be dissolved and forgotten.

[falsefashion]

actually if we did that we would be giving way too much power to the people and giving the exectutive branch way too much power. I think the college needs to stay but there needs to be a law that says the electorial votes for each state has to match the popular vote by that state's people.

[isorion]

That might work, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Old white guys hold onto the past with an iron grip.

[falsefashion]

The electoral college is a way to balance power. If we would of left it to congress or the judicial branch then obviously one of those two would end up with an overwhelming amount of power. Congress is debatable the most powerful branch as it is. If we would of left it up to the popular (our votes) alone then that gives the way too much power to the majority and totally destroys the rights of the minority. That's why Congress is set up the way it is. The house is represented by each state's population, so if a state has more of a population, that state gets more representation. Then you have the Senate in which it's an equal representation, each state getting 2 senators, each getting his/her own vote. Now, could you imagine how much power California, New York and Texas would have if Representation was left only on population of the state. States like WV, RI, the Dakotas would have absolutely no power what so ever. So the way congress is set up protects the smaller states (the minority) and prevents the bigger states (the