The Electoral College is Very Unpopular

The current version of the EC is extremely flawed. The Upshot determined that if Alabama and not Florida had won the battle for the panhandle, Clinton would have won the 2016 election. Any decision system that isn’t robust against such an arbitrary and inconsequential difference should not be selecting the president of the United States.

 

My preference would be for non-violent secession.

Why not ? It’s about as likely, perhaps more likely to happen than to abolish the Electoral College.

 

LOL!

 

Change the apportionment act so that the house isn't capped 435 members and apportion districts per 50,000 residents. This would address the electoral college and gerrymandering.

 

It would also ruin Nate Silver's branding as an added bonus

 

Just end it.

 

You want to stack the deck so the libbies can win every election with city folk votes.

 

A lot of D's wanting to do this. Shocked...

 

Lots of R's want to keep it: shocked

 

The Apportionment Act was passed in 1929, when US population was 121M. At 435 reps, that's one rep for every 278,000 people.

Population today is 333M, so that's one rep for every 765,000 people.

I realize that you live in a very binary world where everything is the fault of the libs but just look at the math and ask youself whether a single rep can represent 765,000 constituents as well as they can 278,000 people while running for re-election every 2 years?

 

If libbies have that big of a majority then we're screwed regardless of the system we have in place. I believe that expanding the House, and thus the Electoral College, is actually in line with what the framers would want. Having said that, the point of the Electoral College was that the states were intended to have a much larger role in our form of government than they currently do.

 

Expected response by you given that the EC is the only chance the Republican Party has of ever winning an election since they never win the popular vote and most of the country detests their “policies.”

 

Changing the incentives is often more effective than a direct solution. The difficulty of gerrymandering would go up and the reward would go down.

 

I ask myself…why are only the libbies unhappy with the current system.