One purpose of the Electoral College is to prevent a limited number of pockets of dense population from determining the outcome of presidential elections. In that sense, it is a bit similar to the US Senate, and acts to give powers to the states as opposed to treating the country as one large electorate.
Without the Electoral College, the recent election would have been decided by heavily populated cities in the states of California and New York. With that in mind, voters could expect to see candidates spend the overwhelming majority of their time in geographical areas with dense populations, leaving those with sparse populations largely ignored.
Liberals chafe at the Electoral College for the same reason they are irritated by each state getting two senators regardless of population — it gives power to the states and recognizes them as significant political entities. It’s the same as the “states’ rights” argument which militates against a powerful national government. Hence, this is not a new argument at all, but one that goes back to the founding of our nation.
That liberals hate the Electoral College is illustrated by the comments of one Supreme Court justice. More on page two.
I’d like to change her being on the supreme court
Lady our lives are at stake at the moment with Obama giving every alien an entrance into the US and I suggest you worry about making a decision to ban their entrance when it comes to your vote.
The problem is not the judicial “system”, but it is despotic judges.
“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”
—- Thomas Jefferson
Yes she does!
Go back to sleep, Ginsberg.
Just let me know when this haggard BeeeATCH makes the obituary
Irrelevant…..and incredibly stupid.
Thats not her decision, thank God! She can hardly stay awake, time to step down don’t ya think?
So, turn equal representation into 51/49 mobocracy. Not your job, do your job. Your job is not to change the rules.
INTERPRET THE LAW.
Go lament to somebody who cares