[EM] Re: electoral college

2004-09-17 Thread Rob LeGrand
James Green-Armytage wrote: > Because the electoral college is widely recognized to be an > anti-democratic antique, left over from the time that ordinary > people were not trusted with the decision of electing the > president. I think that misses the point. It's true that the writers of the Cons

[EM] Re: electoral college

2004-09-16 Thread James Green-Armytage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >So.here's a weird little ammendment to your plan ... I think proportional EV allocation is not my own plan; my plan was EV allocation by popular vote. >that states might >find more attractive. What if, say, California proposed a law like >this : >"we will

[EM] Re: electoral college

2004-09-16 Thread Rob Brown
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:27:50 -0400, James Green-Armytage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I lived in a swing state, I would be all for a proportional > allocation. It's just more fair, less unstable. Who really wants to be in > the middle of the kind of craziness that they have in Florida the