Jeff Snyder -> Ross Cassell wrote:

 RC>> So do you want to allow just California, Oregon, Washington, New York,
 RC>> Massachussetts pick our Presidents for us? Their combined
 JS> populations would
 RC>> dwarf the rest of us.

 JS> Hello Ross. Thanks for your response. As I said earlier, there are
 JS> arguments
 JS> for both sides of the issue. It seems to me that either way, Electoral
 JS> College
 JS> or direct popular vote, it is a no-win situation. Either we allow a few
 JS> heavily-populated states to call the shots, or else we remain with the
 JS> current
 JS> system, and the Big Money corruption and favoritism that plagues it. It
 JS> just
 JS> seems to me that the Electoral College system reduces the level of
 JS> accountability that an incoming president has to the voting public, as
 JS> well as
 JS> his level of dependence upon them, because his victory really only depends
 JS> upon the vote of less than 550 electors. I can just imagine all of the
 JS> pay-offs that Obama must be making right now.

The number of electors is dependent on the number of people sent to Congress.

Rather than abolish the EC, all states ought to award their electors this
way ( a couple to a few do ):

First off each state gets 2 electors symbolic of their Senate
Representation. Secondly the remainder of their electors are based on the
number of representative they have in the US House.

2 of each states electors are awarded to the candidate whom got the popular
vore statewide. Granted there are a few states with only one congressional
district, being that they only have a total of 3 electoral votes, AK, WY,
DE as examples.

Then the candidate whom won the popular vote in each congressional
district, takes that elector.

I want you to research the voting maps from the November Election, for
exampe in the state of Virginia, with its 60 some odd counties, Obama only
won 9 of them, yet he took the entire state.

In California, McCain took more counties, yet the coastal counties trumped
him and Obama won California. Understandable when you consider that the
population distribution is on the coast with the big cities of San
Francisco, LA and San Diego.

You will note that Democratic Candidates spend less time combing the left
coast states as GOP ones spend less time combing the Southern states.

Having to earn electoral votes one congressional district at a time changes things.

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