If 11 people live in Alaska, then dammit, Alaska should get 11 votes if all of it's citizens vote.
I just dont see how thats such a problem. I see it as a much bigger problem if those 11 citizens all of a sudden get 11 electoral votes. 11 is a much higher % of 270, than it is of 290 million.
----- Original Message -----
From: dana tierney
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: DNC
What about the argument that sparsely populated states will lose their
voice if you do away with the electoral college though?
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:51:37 -0400
Subject: RE: DNC
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
True (and I don't mean to imply that you shouldn't vote!) but that is the
exception to the rule. Even then every single vote doesn't count - once the
state is pretty well won then any other votes simply don't matter much.
For example I know (watch out, big difficult prediction here!) that Kerry
will win Massachusetts. So as a Massachusetts resident I'll go and vote as
I will and be done with it. But now there's trouble! It looks like he
might be slipping! There's really nothing to be done here: if I convince
another 50,000 people to vote (in MA) they're votes mean nothing, they can't
do more than has already been done.
This has a lot to do with the Electoral college and a lot to do with the
media. If the polling results were closed until all votes were in it might
make it less likely that somebody would say "my states already decided, I'm
not going out". If the election were decided on the popular vote it would
offer the opportunity for people voting in "clearly decided" states to feel
their vote was better heard.
All told I truly think that the rational for the Electoral College has
passed.
Jim Davis
From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:30 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: DNC
yeah but... look at all the states that were won or lost by a few
hundred votes last time.________________________________
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