Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nHillary won New York and California, which gave her the popular vote but not the electoral college vote.\u00a0 How to reform the electoral process so The Will of the People is properly expressed?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Option 1: do nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s working now, it\u2019s worked for a long time, it\u2019s good enough.\u00a0 Hillary\u2019s loss isn\u2019t novel or frightening, it\u2019s the result of poor campaign strategy and a lousy candidate running against a media celebrity.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Option 2: eliminate the electoral college, go strictly by popular vote.\u00a0 Voters in big Liberal cities would select the President for everyone, save a lot of campaign money and fewer commercials in small states who won\u2019t matter in the election.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Option 3: award electoral votes based on congressional districts instead of winner takes all, which more accurately reflects the entire state\u2019s opinion, not just the dominant city.\u00a0 In Minnesota, that would have given Trump some of Hillary\u2019s electoral college votes.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Option 4: break up New York and California into smaller states.\u00a0 Give some of California to Nevada, give some of New York to Maine, no state allowed to have more than X electoral votes, to eliminate undue influence in the election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Any others?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
One more idea: \u00a0eliminate the Electoral College, but provide an easy path to secession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Hillary won New York and California, which gave her the popular vote but not the electoral college vote.\u00a0 How to reform the electoral process so The Will of the People is properly expressed? \u00a0Option 1: do nothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s working now, it\u2019s worked for a long time, it\u2019s good enough.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61455,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61454\/revisions\/61455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}