Al Gore: Electoral College System Should Be Replaced By Popular Vote

[moonbladem]

Former Vice President Al Gore gave a strong endorsement on Thursday for abandoning the Electoral College and returning to a presidential election system more heavily determined by the popular vote

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[zharia]

Our whole system blows.

Proportionally representative system please.

[romp]

YESTHISTHISTHISTHIS

[iconnu]

Yes! This winner take all business is some BS.

[mirhanda]

THIS! It's so about time for it!

[thesilverymoon]

I agree with this completely. As a liberal living in a red state, it would be nice to feel that my vote counted sometimes.

[flcadam]

I'm actually a fan of the electoral college; I think that switching to popular vote would do little to change the results that we currently get in elections. Both parties have their share of candidates who lost the popular vote while winning in the EC. I really doubt that the number of people who would supposedly be inspired to vote would be significant enough to change outcomes in national elections. The task of pandering to the masses would also probably drive up the cost of elections, making politicians even more dependent on their donors. There are a lot of reasons I think that the EC is really a non-issue.

[amyura]

Both parties have their share of candidates who lost the popular vote while winning in the EC.

Really, who? Gore, Dewey, and.....Rutherford B. Hayes? I mean, technically, that's a share, but three discrepancies in 47 elections is a very small percentage.

[qable]

I actually like the electoral college to a point. It lets the flyover states have a little room to balance out the states on the coasts. A direct democracy would put most of the power in heavily urbanized areas such as western California and coastal New England, which would cause concerns for other areas to be neglected since there would be less reason to pander to them. I'd rather keep the electoral college with a requirement that all EC delegate votes be tied to a representation of their state's popular vote.

[mirhanda]

I'd rather keep the electoral college with a requirement that all EC delegate votes be tied to a representation of their state's popular vote.

I'm more for scrapping the E.C. all together, but I could most definitely live with this. It would make our elections much more fair.

[karrixftw]

This.

[natyanayaki]

I'm for getting rid of the EC, as long as campaigning changes completely. I'd rather have candidates forced into more debates, more speeches, more television interviews than actually traveling the country. I know candidates like meeting people, so that they can have pictures of themselves holding babies, but I think if the scope of campaigning, or the methods of campaigning are forced to change (forced to be changed because of the technology we have) it could drive down the cost?

[evil_laugher]

I had to lol just at the title. Of course he would think so.

And I agree.