2020 Election

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(11-06-2020, 09:34 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: I disagree with killing the electoral college. It helps protect a lot of the nation from being run from the cities. Different areas need to be governed in different ways, plus we live in a federal republic where each state holds power to make its own laws, and it's people having their voices heard, which would be compromised if the electoral college was removed.

I do agree that it's looking like it's been an inevitable Biden win since Wednesday. If (when) he wins, then he deserves to be congratulated. There's only 2 things I'm worried about a Biden presidency. He'll follow Obama's lead and be way more aggressive militarily and screw up peace talks in the middle east, and another is that he'll end/hurt fracking. The former is more important to me than the latter, but I used to work in the oil fields of North Dakota (semi truck) , and I know how devastating that would be for that state and those kinds of area's. There would have to be a mass exodus, because all there is up there is farming and fracking. In Williston there is free college education because the fracking oil companies pay the schools to give that to the public. Plus the price of transportation will skyrocket (meaning everything will increase in price).

You'd need something like the 50 largest cities to all vote 100% for one candidate for them to control everyone else, but what you're describing (being governed in different ways) isn't compromised by the President. The 10th Amendment still protects those state powers and they still have equal representation in the Senate.

Not to mention the use of winner-take-all by 48 states silences far more voices, creating the illusion that purple states are red or blue. 

Arguably a popular election of the President coupled with a Senate that favors smaller states would lead to far more compromise for the majority of Americans.