How stupid can you get? While campaigning in Iowa, Elizabeth Warren stated that once she is elected President, she'll eliminate the electoral college.

@hunkalove Then just like noted earlier California and New York would determin national elections.

@hunkalove No. Just as the author of the post points out, eliminating the Electoral College would completely negate the vote of most of America, leaving only a state that decided "theft under $1000 is not a crime, public defecation is not a crime" and a city that decided "you can't buy one 64 oz soda any more...but you can buy 2 32 oz sodas (increasing our tax revenue)" to decide how the rest of the country is taxed and run. No thank you.

@hunkalove I know people can be rabid in their opinions but I'll risk agreeing with you.

one (wo)man one vote
the majority rules

I say that realizing that we would be saying "President Clinton" again

@jackson55 Why should a person from Cousinf-ck, North Dakota have a vote that counts four times as much as a vote from NYC?

@SmartKat https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-electoral-college/[quote]The reason that the Constitution calls for this extra layer, rather than just providing for the direct election of the president, is that most of the nation’s founders were actually rather afraid of democracy. James Madison worried about what he called “factions,” which he defined as groups of citizens who have a common interest in some proposal that would either violate the rights of other citizens or would harm the nation as a whole. [/quote]

@4meAndyou Yes, I know the theory of why the EC is supposedly a good thing.

I have an idea for a new rule. Leave the EC in place - but a candidate must win BOTH the EC and the popular vote, in order to become POTUS.

@SmartKat Now that would be quite a trick, wouldn't it? 😊

@SmartKat and what if they only win one, then what?

@booboo New election! Keep doing it until we get it right.

@SmartKat do you honestly think people will change their vote though?

@booboo If that was the way things worked, they would have to. Maybe it’s about time for people to grow up and realize that in a society of many people, they will never have a candidate who agrees with them 100%.

OR parties could nominate someone almost everybody can tolerate, in the first place.

@SmartKat in America, party comes before country, right down to the local level... i've witnessed this first hand