To The Daily Sun,
I have to admit that I have marked this date on my calendar for agreeing with Alan Verveake. Normally, I will skip over or maybe skim-read his letters as they tend to be so angry that it do not need the aggravation but I caught a mention of the Electoral College and I thought, well, here we go again, the Dems want to change things that have worked well since the inception of the Republic.
To my surprise, Alan defended the intent of the Founding Fathers to give value to states to contend with the larger states at the time which is even more important today with so many more states and the heavy populations on the coasts, otherwise elections should just be given up in the Bread Basket of the country and handed to N.Y. and Ca..
Alan, thank you. Maybe more folks would understand the genius of those old men!
Jim Shuff
Freedom
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Don't get used to it.
The Electoral College is a result of slave-holders' demands to count their slaves in order to have more clout in the new Republic. Each slave counted as 3/5ths of a person towards the slaveholder's state's representation in the new nation. People treated like cattle and sheep giving a racist state more clout and the founders likely had no choice because the first and foremost of importance was to establish a constitution beyond the failed “Articles of Confederation”. So now, we have to correct that mistake because it does not sit well with 21st Century morality. And let's not stop at that. The Senate is a problem, too. A state with half a million people has just as much power in the US Senate as a state with much more. For instance, Wyoming has 0.17% of the US (571K) population and California has 12.13% (40M) yet they have the same representation in the US Senate. That is not genius government in this day and age. That isn't even representative democracy because it is so outlandish.
Way to go from the pep squad as always Alan.
Most of us do, you just don’t listen.
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