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The Trouble with the Electoral College
Then, what voting system would you use after your abolish electoral college? You already said 1st past the post in another video that it was bad.
You called people who live in Illinois… Hoosiers. This is incorrect. They are called
US politics, my friends.
I disagree
I believe that the electoral college should be abolished entirely, and we should instead use the vote from every individual.
Not to mention most of the members in the electoral college are freemasons
Shout out to Spokane
A video never aged so well
easy solution: exists
the government: but we dont like that
Without the Electoral college, the most populous states like California and New York would decide elections.
Wow, guess this author of this video is completely ignoring the existence of political parties and the information from radio/television/internet which is what most people these days use to decide their candidate, not their visits.
All of this is by design, and the founders spent more ink on this than any other branch of the government. This is why the president only holds 1/3 of the power and is not an absolute dictator. America is not a democracy, and it never has been. Not everyone agrees with this system, but wherever your opinion lies it’s important to understand that the electoral college is not some sneaky loophole, it is a deliberate choice. That needs to be the starting point before one can argue for keeping or changing the system
What happens when it's a nation wide close vote and what about each state having slightly different voting rules. This is a compromise that respects some state's right and some population.
That's the whole point. Where politicians visit before the election does not correlate with who their policies represent. Smaller states have distinctly different needs and cultures that would be ignored with a popular vote. In our current system, everyone has a say. The populous states still have the biggest say. The electoral system is a feature that was carefully thought through, not a bug that needs to be fixed
The main protection the electorial college offers is to protect the (usually small) states from the Federal Government (Usually controled by the large states). I'm not dismissing your problem but we have to keep the states in charge of certifying the elections.
A hoosier is someone from Indiana, not illinois.
The electoral college is propped up by the two party system and you'd see movements for its abolition pop up faster than anti-maskers did if a third party became popular.
I hope that most people who are in this comment section never get elected to anything. The amount of stupidity here is insane.
If a system is unfair but benefits a group of people, that group will use whatever mental gymnastics necessary to defend it.
"Hoosiers" are for Indianaer-whatever they are called. Not Illinoisians.
Hoosiers are from Indiana not Illinois
“Californians are 10 votes short of what they should get”
Thank god 🙏🏻 for that
The United States is a Republic, not a democracy.
illinios is not the hoosier state lol