If you live in one of the approximately 40 fly-over states where Presidential candidates won’t campaign or spend money on advertising this fall, you will be one of the 200 million Americans who won’t decide who gets elected the next American President. How so?
Because unless you live in one of the 7 to 14 states where the number of Republicans and Democrats is so close that the election could “swing” to either party, your vote won’t count when the obsolete and dangerous real election takes place in the Electoral College, a hold-over process from the Colonial days when the Congress didn’t trust the average citizen to know enough about the candidates for President to make an informed decision.
There is a better way, a way to assure that one-person/one-vote will determine our next President. I delivered an essay explaining this issue on election-eve 2008, which you can read at: http://chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Ebeling%20%20-Collage.htm. For the latest information o the movement to change the electoral process and make it fair, go to http://www.nationalpopularvote.com.
Make every vote for President this fall, including you own, count.
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January 21, 2012 at 08:22
Wendy Sterne
Chuck: Ever wonder why the mainstream press doesn’t want to make this the HUGE DEAL that it is??? Between the Electoral College, and the demonstrably hackable voting machines (and subsequent hacked elections), we have a despairingly depressing situation. No surprise that Republicans in Iowa insisted on hand counted paper ballots for their caucus. And gee, turns out Santorum DID win in that, (hand counted paper ballots were the only accountability that made that event possible)–even though Romney was declared the winner and picked up all the support and press he needed going into N.H. before the GOP released that info (pretty obvious WHO the GOP REQUIRES as a viable candidate against Obama.)
February 2, 2012 at 12:30
Atticus Finch
It’s funny that most pepole do not even realize this is the case. I live in Georgia and it KILLS me that no matter my passion (wrong or right) the most conservative Republican will win the state. They are predicting a Newt Gingrich win in Georgia – I can barely stand the thought. There is enough intelligence in the Atlanta area to make this a swing state – one would wish.
Out with the electoral college!
February 14, 2012 at 15:36
applewoody
Of course the voters could make any state a “swing state,” but politicians running for President and their people analyze the probabilities and invest their time and resources where they think it will count most in the Electoral College. Having a Senate with 2 from every state, regardless of population, is as whacked as the EC.