For most of my years as an eligible voter, I didn't pay much attention to the Electoral College because things worked the way they were supposed to work, with either a Democrat or a Republican winning the popular vote and the EC vote. I started keeping an eye on the EC in 2000, when I read newspaper articles about the EC and why swing states would be so crucial in the Bush vs Gore race. After 2000, I started viewing presidential elections exclusively through the prism of the EC, but I was still satisfied that it worked as long as Ralph Nader wasn't on the ballot.
The nightmare of Pus Bucket in the White House, with Chinless Wonder and Cheese Prince running Congress, virtually destroyed the system of Constitutional checks and balances. Now I've joined the growing number of dissidents who think the Electoral College is an idea whose time has passed, and I see some positives in the revised system outlined in Washington Monthly.
The nightmare of Pus Bucket in the White House, with Chinless Wonder and Cheese Prince running Congress, virtually destroyed the system of Constitutional checks and balances. Now I've joined the growing number of dissidents who think the Electoral College is an idea whose time has passed, and I see some positives in the revised system outlined in Washington Monthly.
No comments:
Post a Comment