Electoral college: vote of major cities should have greater weight

[DesEtoiles]

i.e., make each state a mini-electoral college

Divide up the electors per region - and the counties where the larger cities are get the most weight.

In Texas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston are very close to blue or are already blue. If these cities controlled the electors, the state would go blue.

Shouldn't the most populous and most economically productive areas of each state control the state's electors in the electoral college?

[tk2kewl]

1. I think my vote should be weighted 50 million to one

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Then I would be the ultimate swing vote

[Egalitariat]

2. Do you think the most economically productive voters

should have more weight as well? Or is it just cities? States?

The electoral college stinks and there's no way to fix it, except to make it go away.

[DesEtoiles]

3. Big cities vote blue - let's find a way to use that

[ShinerTX]

4. I think only blue people should be allowed to vote.

[GetTheRightVote]

5. vote in our own Blue Nation, Yes, Yes, Yes,

Then we would have fair elections.

:kick:

[madison2000]

6. And shouldn't all rednecks have 3/5 of a vote, regardless of where

they live, on account of having 3/5 of a brain?!

[anaxarchos]

7. This is no sillier a proposal than each state having 2 senators

regardless of population.

How about simply eliminating the electoral collage in favor of the direct election of the president?

The House is a joke through jerrymandering, which used to be a dirty term like robbery but which people like Frist openly brag about today.

The House of Lords, er, I mean the Senate is a joke with an eternal majority going to states with no population.

The Supreme Court is an openly partisan joke.

Shouldn't one branch of the "great democracy" be democratic?

[buddysmellgood]

8. We don't need and electoral college. They can't even be trusted to show up

or know the candidates name.