Democrats: if Obama loses the popular vote but wins the election, will you still oppose the electoral college?

First, I am a Libertarian, but I hope you don't mind me putting in my 2 cents.

Yes, it think it should go by popular vote, but, even if both Democrat and Republican voters were to get together and agree that the electoral college is bad and needs to go, and getting them to agree on anything is difficult, it wont happen.

To end the electoral college system we would need a constitutional amendment. A constitutional amendment requires ratification by the three-fourths of the states. This wont happen. Why would states like California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and the 12 others with the most electoral college votes give up there power to elect the President? On top of that, why would the states with the least electoral college give up what little power they had. They wont.

In the states with the most electoral college votes, they are the ones that everyone talks about during the election. Why care about California if your going to lose by 10% of the popular vote, instead of losing all 55 votes! The politicians know that it will hurt there state if they lose that.

In the states with the least electoral college votes, the politicians know that if we go on a popular vote you could theoretically win without a single vote from there state. You could, theoretically win by votes from only the top 12 most populated states. There state would become meaningless.

You will never get the 12 states with the most and least electoral college votes to give up what power they have.

LEANING TOWARD OPPOSING IT

I’m a democrat and I remember the Bush/Gore days.

Despite that Gore didn’t take office I wasn’t quick to oppose the electoral college.

The electoral college serves an important purpose in principal. It is that it gives

the states without big cities an equal voice. Rural America tends to vote republican.

This sounds good in principal. It prevents states like Wyoming from being

marginalized during the election season.

On the other hand, if a state doesn’t contribute much to the economy then why

should it have vast influence?

I like the electoral college in principal but I also don’t like the thought of a desert

wasteland, which produces nothing, having significant power of influence.

The electoral college should give the states power of influence based upon their

productivity and not based upon their population counts.

In other words, a state that contributes 3% to the nation’s GDP should have 3%

of the electoral college. However, one must find a way to incorporate the nation’s

elderly and disabled into the equation despite the fact that they generally don’t

contribute much to GDP. It’s not a crime to grow old and to retire.

If the electoral college doesn’t achieve these goals then I oppose it.

the main reason for the electoral college is in the case of a contentious election that is a very close margin, a clear victor is determined. in the past it has served its purpose. but Gore v Bush made it obsolete for even that purpose, and now it is the courts that will have a final word in close contests. one man one vote should be the rule, but i am afraid in an election as close as 2012 will be, this will result in 50 lawsuits contesting vote counts in every state, not just the swing state. so throwing the baby out with the washwater is apt to be the result of ending the electoral college.

McCain just isn't going to win the preferred vote. Ha! What fun! The electoral tuition isn't going at any place this election. You can have got to make an illustration of any one who will have a threat in November of some election one day, due to the fact that this one is a finished deal.

I have always disapproved a group of people such as the electoral college being able to override the popular vote for the supposedly betterment of America, because it is apparent that they were asleep this last election, and their lack of concern when Johnson was allowed to assume office when JFK was killed.

Yes! Unlike Republicans we do not say we believe in something 100% unless we do. The Republicans for the most part were 100% behind Romney and his far right-wing views up until he did a complete turn around and then they said they were 100% behind him even though he was saying the exact opposite of what he said up until the debates!

Yes, the electoral college is just one of many mechanisms of plutocratic govt owners to get what they want over what the rest of the public wants.