We can never be one nation with the Electoral College

[Yavin4]

The presidency is the only quasi-national voice that the people have to express their will in policy. WIthout the EC, the presidency would reflect the voice of the people as a whole.

Without that single voice, we can never reach a common, national understanding with each other.

[Binkie The Clown]

1. I suspect we'd be better off split into three countries.

Roughly divided into East Coast, West Coast, and Central US. Something very much like the three land masses in the electoral maps of this week.

[Chainfire]

3. Many of the would go for that.

Until they saw that they would have no economy.

[Chainfire]

2. Right wingers are deathly afraid of getting rid of the EC

they would consider it moving us towards a Democracy, which they define as "mob rule."

(I know, if you don't hear it from them, it is hard to believe, but that is their claim)

[brush]

4. I wonder instead of ditching the EC the republicans might go for...

apportioning Electoral College votes how Maine and Nebraska do—whichever candidate wins a particular Congressional district gets its EC vote.

IMO that's infinitely fairer than the present system, or of abolishing it all together would be as that apportionment method doesn't disenfranchise smaller states or under represent larger states. How can anyone argue when each Congressional district from states all over the nation get equal representation?

Why it's like "one person, one vote."

One Congressional district, one vote.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. Also end gerrymandering

It's stupid