Proposal to Update the Electoral College

A Stanford Professor has put down an idea (and also co-wrote a 620-page book for those who are that interested) on how to update the often criticized Electoral College system for presidential elections. Under the proposed system participating states would form a compact to throw all Electoral College votes behind the winner of the national popular vote regardless of which candidate won in any individual state. This proposed system would also make it much easier to bring the system up to date since it would not require a constitutional amendment to change or disband the Electoral College.

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Re:That's A GREAT Idea...

[mikeisme77]

I was actually thinking the same thing as I was typing it up (in regards to 'Dubya')... especially since he also weakened our world position by overextending our forces, angering our allies, and (arguably) weakening our economic influence (or at least allowed the growth to slow--mostly in terms of science and technology). If we want to stay on the forefront of science/technology and therefore the modern economy, we NEED to keep our resources (e.g. people) inside this country, give more federal grants to research, remove bans on stem cell and other types of research, and actively recruit PhDs of other nationalities (like we used to--now we just give H1-Bs out and send them back home after they've made their money so they can set themselves up as competition to Americans).