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Originally Posted by Skybird
I did not got that spam mail, but your replacing of names immediately came to my mind when reading the starting post's message. Bush junior not only got elected - he even got elected TWICE. Making the same mistake even twice - what does that tell me about an electorate?
And every couple of years voluntarily agreeing to make the same silly show circus about choosing between plague and cholera - how is about that, what does that tell me about an electorate...?
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It wasn't a mistake, it was an election. Europe has "mistakenly" (from the POV of a large % of American voters) elected socialists for decades (since we forced some of you at gunpoint to have different governments than your people liked to pick for themselves). Should you change your system to correct this obvious problem?
The EC is codified in the Constitution. It cannot change without agreement of 2/3 of BOTH houses of Congress, and ratification by 3/4 of all the States. It will NEVER happen since more that 25% of States are smaller, and benefit from increased attention. What would happen with popular vote, is a concentration on a subset of highly populous States. There would be no reason for candidates to even campaign in smaller States. No reason for them to both with any "local" issues except those in NY, MA, CA, and a few more urban areas. Having to field a candidate that will have to score some smaller states to win means moderation—centrism—which is good.
For all the talk of polarization, people abroad need to realize that the "red" states (the backwards color assignment POs me, the left should be "red") are often red by 1%, or "really red" by 10%. Ditto the "blue" states.
Might as well talk about legislating the tides.