Should the US should abolish the electoral college.
The Citizens' United decision needs to be overturned, but will not under this current Court. The Electoral College is an arcane, racist system. It derives from the racist decisions of the fledgling republic and the hubris of the then leaders. It serves no positive purpose. It also gives a weighted voting system for rural areas, reminiscent, although on a different basis, from the old, nineteenth-century Prussian system.
ABSOLUTELY! It's rediculous to give the minority vote wins. One person, one vote!
I'm on the fence about our electorate. We make catastrophically bad decisions all the time. I think one man, one vote, needs a fail safe. Not that I claim to know the best method. Ranked choice voting seems like a decent possibility.
Ranked choice is a great idea.
Does the EC provide the fail safe you believe is needed? Seems to me that it hands disproportionate power to the forces of conservatism.
totally agree with you on this.