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The collision between the electoral vote and the popular vote is no longer just a historical curiosity. It s time to abolish the Electoral College and to count the votes of all Americans in presidential elections.
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www.pww.org/past-weeks-2000/Abolish%20Electoral%20Colle...
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Printer Friendly Version; Email this to a friend; Should We Abolish The Electoral College?; ... Another reason we’re not likely to see the Electoral College abolished is that getting rid of it is no simple matter. Since it is part of the Constitution, abolishing it would require a Constitutional amendment.
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www.profutures.com/article.php/295/
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If the winner of this year's popular vote is defeated due to the vagaries of narrow results in a handful of states, legislators will rush to file constitutional amendments to abolish the Electoral College. I suspect one will succeed. ... "The biggest reason it was set up was to protect slavery," Amar tells me Wednesday,
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www.fairvote.org/op_eds/electoral_college.htm
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The results of last year's presidential election was among the reasons why I believe the current system does not work. We should abolish the Electoral College because it allows for the will of the people to be misrepresented when electoral vote and popular vote results are not the same;
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www.presidentelect.org/art_depangher_unaccept.html
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Anyway, even if the Framers distrusted democracy in the 18th century, that's not a good reason for us to distrust it in the 21st. We scrapped the Framers' system more than a century ago. We no longer permit individuals to own slaves, for example (13th Amendment); ... Let's abolish the Electoral College...
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www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/12/electoral_coll...
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Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Evan Bayh: Abolish Electoral College: ... hence the Electoral College. Nonetheless, there is no reason to think that progress in governing must stop w/ the 18th century. If what is past is eternally the best forever on, then we'd never have progressed beyond the Magna Carta.
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The Electoral College got a brief spate of attention in 2000, when George Bush became president even though he lost the popular vote to Al Gore by more than 500,000 votes. Many people realized then for the first time that we have a system in which the president is chosen not by the voters themselves, but by 538 electors.
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www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/opinion/29sun1.html
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The reason for this is the winner-take-all rule under which all of a state's electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state. ... Read More: Abolish Electoral College, Al Gore Popular Vote, Barack Obama, Electoral College, Electoral Votes, Gore Florida, John Kerry Popular...
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Proposals to abolish the Electoral College, although frequently put forward, have failed largely because alternatives appear more problematical than the College in its present form. The fact that the Electoral College was originally designed to solve one set of problems is a tribute to the genius of the Founding Fathers.
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