serious question: did you guys thing the electoral college was a good idea before mid2016?

@Fondboy to get rid of the electoral college would severely put you on a path to majority tyranny. Unless you also changes your entire election system to something like the Donthe method of plurality election. You will end up in a situation were the majority rule over others like the EU. E.g my country together with the 16 smallest EU members have the same voting power as germany. Germany+France+Italy or Germany+France+Poland can control all legislation.

There is no respect for our danish culture or way of doing things. We have been mandated to put copyright on news because thats what the donin germany, so that must all countries do.

@Just for youtube [NB1] I wasn't into politics at that point, @Salacious Swanky Cat im not sure

The infamous article 11

But you heard of the electoral college before 2016 @Fondboy

from school and things

democrats were fine with the electoral college when clinton won with a minority of votes

I think it always seemed a little overcomplicated to me, but I never paid enough attention to politics to really think about it that hard

it's a very weird system, I get the motives behind it, the execution could be better
but I'm coming at this from Australian perspective which is very different

I have more of an issue with how the DNC do their primaries than the EC though

They now want us to to make a law mandated minimum wage, screwing our free market of wages negotiated by unions and employers

It's not complicated when you read the writings of the founders

^

we were a republic of states

states elect presidents

I’ve always had an understanding of why the electoral college was necessary, but I wasn’t sure how the number was calculated

I always understood the reason for it but kinda felt like there must be a better way to do it, but could definitely never think of a way to ever do it better

its simply your number of representatives and senators in washington

@Just for youtube [NB1] I didn't am Canadian

oh gotcha

The number of votes in the EC is based on the centennial census iirc

all states get two senators

on the state level it could be better organised
I think the 50 states deciding it is right

representatives are spread out according to population

Matt's last video about the EC was really good at explaining it

popular vote however is just retarded and isn't used almost at all is for a reason

every state gets at least one representative

the electoral college will go away

just like senators not being popularly elected went away

the left is the only side that takes ground

the right never takes any ground

they just resist for a little while until they cave

what is wrong with Canadas system for example, We elect people in our district for a seat in the house and then how ever gets the most seats that parties front runner becomes prime minister

parliamentary systems are just as much a mess as our republic

this entire area would NEVER be represented because there's so few people here http://bit.ly/2nYA6T3

he goes over that in the vieo

video

states already don't get represented

just have every person vote "equal under the law"

then pick someone that way

no

not your country