2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumVirtually ALL Dems and progressives want the Electoral College abolished
Getting rid of the EC has never been a position held solely by those who supported HRC in the primaries.
Saying this because I'm getting a bit tired of people implying that the left somehow cares less about that than the "center-left".
There simply isn't a disagreement on this point within our side of the spectrum.
dhol82
(9,439 posts)Hate to sound bitter but, when have the dems ever stood up and fought tooth and nail for what's right?
That's with all branches of government against us.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)n/t.
Yurovsky
(2,064 posts)no way will smaller states, especially those in the south and Great Plains, give up the disproportionate power the EC grants them. It only takes 1/3 of them to block any amendment that would dissolve the EC.
I'm afraid we'll need an uprising unlike any we've seen in our lifetime to end this travesty of a political dinosaur. It is the vestigial tail of our Republic, only we can't seem to get it surgically removed...
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)popular vote losers to be repeatedly installed in the White House. The only question really is if abolishing the EC will require rioting in the streets and civil unrest, or will Congress take the initiative to initiate amending the constitution without civil strife.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)MichMan
(13,172 posts)The perception is that we are only opposed to the EC because it worked against us this time. We would have had a lot better argument had we been pressing for abolition as a matter of principle when it didn't affect the winner. That may however have fallen on deaf ears because it would have been tough convincing some that it was an issue.
kudzu22
(1,273 posts)Here are 24 I'm pretty sure would never go for it: AK, MT, ID, UT, WY, ND, SD, NE, KS, AZ, TX, OK, NE, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, NC, SC, WV, KY, TN, IN.
So, you'd have to persuade 8 of those AND hang on to all the small blue states like CT, VT, ME, HI, MN, NM, RI, DE and purple ones like IA, WI, NV that currently enjoy their "disproportionate" representation.