Originally posted by O'Mankie:
My vote in MD is completely a waste of time seeing as the Dem always takes it....which brings me to yet another chance to bitch about the electoral college bullshit.
IDEA!
If you insist on having this electoral college crap in doodleville, why not do it another way to make it a little less unfair.
Say, for example Knobhead Bush gets 51% and Kerry 49% of the votes in OH...instead of Bush getting all the electoral college votes, he should get 51% of them and Kerry 49% of them, that would seem to make a little more sense out of a stupid system......no? Still not as democratic as the popular vote system, but better than the shit you all have now.
Mankie, stop that. There are many local issues that your vote counts for.
In addition, some states already have adopted your idea (New Hampshire) and there is an initiative in Colorado to do just what you are proposing, although it is not likely to pass.
However, the electoral college is designed to give the smaller states (MD) a chance to have a slightly larger voice then they would have against the most populous states in the nation (CA & TX) so folks from MD should be in favor of the system.