The horror!!! Fox's Megyn Kelly and regular Chris Stirewalt fearmonger over the possibility of states ditching the Electoral College and using the popular vote to determine our elections instead. God knows the world is going to come to an end of we let too many of those "blah people," instead of those real "Murkins" out in the rural areas have an influence on our presidential elections.
From Fox's blog: States Quietly Sign Onto Plan to Change Election System:
Nearly a dozen states have quietly signed onto a plan to ditch the Electoral College and instead, award the White House to whoever wins the popular vote.The National Popular Vote agreement would take effect if states that represent 270 electoral votes commit. New York has most recently joined the efforts, bringing the number of states to 10 plus the District of Columbia. Altogether, they represent 165 electoral votes.Without the Electoral College, Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt said we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. If presidents are selected through the popular vote, he said that campaigns will focus on maximizing turnout in urban centers. He said the “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he said.
We always knew they felt this way. It's not all that often that one of them actually says it out loud.
i say about time, it's rigged and always has been they don't reflect the peoples intent it's gerrymandering's father design to give an edge to who they desire not who you voted for it creates that indifferent "my vote doesn't count anyway" attitude
Adam Liptak points out that John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon visited almost every state in the Union a little over 50 years ago. Now, polling is sophisticated enough and segmenting of the electorate durable enough that 80% of the voters get disenfranchised in the Presidential race before they ever reach the polls. Governance suffers from this insistent focus on a shrinking handful of swing states:
just as gerrymander did in 2012 voters picked Dems to run the house by over a million votes the scam keeps the losers in place, i hope who ever replaces Pres. understands the "fierce urgency of now" is now.The shrinking electoral battleground has altered the nature of American self-governance. There is evidence that the current system is depressing turnout, distorting policy, weakening accountability and effectively disenfranchising the vast majority of Americans [...]
This state of affairs is not rooted in the Constitution, but rather in the fact that almost every state chooses to allocate its electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis. A candidate confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.
Some of the people who live in the nation’s spectator states return the favor by staying home from the polls. In 2008, voter turnout in the 15 states that received the bulk of the candidates’ attention was 67 percent. In the remaining 35 states, it was six points lower.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/foxs-kelly-and-stirewalt-fearmonger-over
