11-13-2016, 07:32 PM
(11-13-2016, 07:05 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Electoral votes are all-in for nearly every state. Those are cast, by state, by popular vote. And electoral votes are proportioned primarily according to census data. OH has it's say, and CA has it's say...and how the vote goes in CA has no bearing on OH choice.
What do you think is incorrect about that?
The idea of the states over the people is playing to the federalism argument. If we are looking at the federalism argument, then using the "ladder of federalism" it would be the government of the states that would cast the vote. It used to be, well, still is, that we elect political elites that are more in the know than the general public to cast their votes on our behalf. Now it is the expectation that those electors will cast their votes based on the popular votes of the states. That is a hybrid system from what was originally intended.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
