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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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As I've made clear I'm absolutely against eh electoral college. So it won't be a surprise that I found this article nonsense. Of the points I agree with they address different problems that have nothing to do with the electoral college. True there are other problems with our election that changing the electoral college won't solve but I find that a specious argument. That other problems exist isn't a reason not to deal with this one. I've addressed many of the points in the article already so I'll just address one now.
As Richard Posner pointed out over at Slate four years ago, one thing the Electoral College helps to provide is a sense of “certainty” about the outcome.
The electoral college provides a sense of certainty by giving a false sense of the size of the win. I suppose it's possible that the false sense of the size of their loss might give ignorant people an incentive to support the winner. But it's an exaggerated number, a lie. As I see it we already spend to much energy coddling people who take no time to understand the issues. They already believe to many lies. Better they know the truth about how close these elections are and how divided we are as a nation than to give them a comforting exaggeration about the margin of victory. When I try to understand what happened in a presidential election I give almost none of my attention to the electoral college vote. A quick glance to note the numbers than it's onto the popular vote in the country, in the states, the cities vs the less dense areas, how different demographics voted. I don't expect everyone to do that but lying to them about the spread with the exaggeration that comes from the electoral college vote doesn't serve any purpose that I value.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 11/16/2016 - 10:07pm
We advise other countries on how to hold elections. Those elections are one person, one vote. We call that true democracy.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/16/2016 - 11:25pm