How big of a vote gap would it take for you to drop the Electoral College?

[Belsnickel]

(04-04-2019, 12:11 PM)Dill Wrote: Hollo has an excuse: he grew up in Central Europe, the over-regulated cradle of European socialism.

But you are breathing the free air of Madison's and Jefferson's Virginia.  No excuse for ignoring the role of individual states in our federal system.

I think some of our list friends have all along been thinking we're the UVA--United Voters of America--rather than the U.S.A.

In your last post to me you approved Madison's notion of Electors elected from districts.  So you are not against the EC, just want to reform it? Willing to compromise?
Have I understood you?

Of course I am willing to compromise, that is what politics is all about. That notion of Madison's was itself a compromise, still unconvinced that the slave states would accept direct popular vote. I would throw in the caveat, though, that in order for the compromise to be palatable, representation would need to be increased such that there is no disparity in the number of citizens per Elector between the states that exceeds 1.5:1. Meaning in no state should it take twice or more as many people to make up one Electoral vote as it does in another state.