our president, Barack Obama...

[piece-itpete]

And keep the big cities - many of whom are banking/financial centers - from owning the country lock stock and barrel. The last hold would be gone.

Of course the big business centers are generally Democrat....

Pete

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

And keep the big cities - many of whom are banking/financial centers - from owning the country lock stock and barrel. The last hold would be gone.

Of course the big business centers are generally Democrat....

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

And keep the big cities - many of whom are banking/financial centers - from owning the country lock stock and barrel. The last hold would be gone.

Of course the big business centers are generally Democrat....

Pete

Yes, but is that because corporate executives are Democrats, or because the people who have to deal with them more closely soon become Democrats? Remember, a hundred years ago the Republican stronghold was the upper Midwest. Perhaps being exposed to the whims of unbridled capitalism turns people into lefties?

Dave

[piece-itpete]

Capitalism? Are you saying that there's any business LEFT in the rust belt?

Rob, you do away with the electoral college, the major population centers would run the country.

Pete

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Capitalism? Are you saying that there's any business LEFT in the rust belt?

Rob, you do away with the electoral college, the major population centers would run the country.

Pete

and why shouldn't they?

why should your vote be like 100 of mine?

[piece-itpete]

because it's the United States, not the United State

Electoral votes are awarded generally on population, it's unlikely my vote is that much more powerful than yours, if at all. It's moot anyway, they'll never be enough votes to modify it.

Pete

[finnbow]

While the electoral college is certainly an anachronism, I think it's mostly harmless in that the votes are apportioned by population.

The US Senate is far more problematic, IMHO. Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Delaware and Alaska all have significantly less than 1 million residents. Yet they all get 2 Senators just like New York, California and Texas who each have over 20 million residents (CA has over 35 million). DC has more people than Wyoming and gets zero.

Put that in your hookah and smoke it.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

because it's the United States, not the United State

Electoral votes are awarded generally on population, it's unlikely my vote is that much more powerful than yours, if at all. It's moot anyway, they'll never be enough votes to modify it.

Pete

the point is your vote is more powerful than mine and that is ridiculous

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by noonereal

the point is your vote is more powerful than mine and that is ridiculous

His Senate vote certainly is.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by finnbow

His Senate vote certainly is.

don't even strt on that, that is a dramatic inequality in representation

it's make the electoral differences look like chump