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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-11-05 04:21 PM
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A thought about abolishing the electoral college
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Would abolishing it hurt grassroots organizing? As it stands now, the nation is divided up into precincts, counties, etc that make it easier to set a goal of say, carrying a county for Kerry, or something like that. That goal is something one person can feel is manageable. If the president were decided by popular vote, who at the bottom could see the results of their activism? I know that there are other methods (splitting electoral votes based on disticts, as in Main and Nebraska) but straight up abolishing the EC is one that always seems to be brought up in the mainstream.
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