Originally posted by: [-NM-] -SS-
Hey Mock, I just finished watching this:
Interesting.
It is an interesting process and is clearly a mixed bag.
I know our founding fathers intentions were noble with implementing our electoral college. They feared a direct Democracy, mob rule, might makes right system.
That is why they wanted us to be a Republic, why they drafted a Constitution, etc.........
This is also why we have a Senate and a House of Representatives, because they didn't want the biggest majority to be able to enslave the minority.
The electoral college was yet another mechanism that they hoped would stop politicians from pandering to the biggest cities in our nation at the direct expense of smaller cities and states around them.
I believe it was Virginia and Maryland that had such a hissy over this concept, since the two were polar opposites, that had either of them not been given their way, to some extent, neither would have ultimately joined the union.
Today the electoral college is still a mess and much like the delegate system is probably close to being removed.......rightfully or wrongfully is obviously up for debate (though I personally stand behind it).
That is why the Democrats were so big about the Census push a few years back in 2010. They wanted to make sure that the "Hispanic" demographic, legal or illegal, one of their biggest voting blocks (70-30) were sufficiently represented.
And it worked.............
Which is why this pissed them off so much.
http://news.yahoo.com/voting-laws-may-disenfranchise-10-million-hispanic-u-015903517.html
It's cool to have to show ID to board a plane, open a bank account, buy a beer, some cigs, go see a movie, rent a car, a hotel room, drive to the store, but not to vote apparently.