Electoral College, Part 2
By Wink
If you read the October 6, 2008 Winkest Link* (titled, appropriately enough “Electoral College”) you will see that the editors of Winkest Link hate the Electoral College.
Hate it.
In the races for the Senate, for Congress, for governors and mayors, for city council, we just count up the votes. The person with the highest vote total wins!
This is true, too, for senior class president. Nobody says “Miss Anthrope’s Latin class is under-represented, so lets do a winner-take-all, class by class.” Nope, they just COUNT THE VOTES.
So why a different system for the office of President of the United States? We suspect this was actually a practical joke pulled by the founding fathers after another evening of sniffing horse glue.
Franklin: … I’ve got a better idea. Lets do away with one-man-one-vote.
Terwilliger: Yeah, how about each state being ‘winner-take-all’?
Franklin: That way presidential candidates could save money by only campaigning in the big states!
Terwilliger: Ha ha ha! Pass the horse glue.
(Please tell me there was a founding father named ‘Terwilliger’)
Well, somehow this loopy idea stuck.
Sometimes ‘creative’ and ‘stupid’ are the same thing.
But don’t give up hope, W-L readers! There may be a way to outflank the Electoral College.
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/.
Let’s get more states, big and small, to support it!
* By the way, if you have NOT read the October 6, 2008 Winkest Link, go back and do so. It includes several attempts at humor, which can only make your life a little better.
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