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I would so love to eliminate winner takes all from states as part of the electoral college. California is slightly purple and Texas extremely so. That should be

• salawat 5y ago
  The electoral college was never meant to be influenced at all by political party membership; and Washington warned against the siren call of the National political party when he left office.
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > The electoral college was never meant to be influenced at all by political party membership; Then, frankly, the framers were completely incompetent, because they couldn't have designed a system designed better to guarantee a stable national partisan duopoly if that had been their intent. > and Washington warned against the siren call of the National political party when he left office. That wasn't a forward looking warning; the duopoly guaranteed by the Constitutional structure of government had already been firmly established by the end of Washington's first term, with the leaders of both factions in his Cabinet.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > I would so love to eliminate winner takes all from states as part of the electoral college The manner of Presidential elections is a whole lot less important to having a partisan duopoly than the manner of legislative elections and the fact we have a strong Presidency.