I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of tossing the baby out with the
bathwater and completely ditching the electoral college. While I agree that
the electoral college as it exists today does not always accurately reflect
the will of the people, it does give candidates a reason to acknowledge the
needs of those voters not living in the big cities.
I'd be interested in seeing some modifications made, though. One proposal I
saw (can't recall where, unfortunately) was to split the electors, so that
102 electors (2/state plus DC - the "senatorial electors") were awarded to
the candidate that received the majority (or plurality) of the popular vote.
The rest of the electors could be awarded on the basis of states carried,
maybe even the way Maine and Nebraska parcel theirs out.
Your thoughts?
Adam C. Lipscomb
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