A racist, undemocratic relic:
Watching Steve Kornacki at the big board on MSNBC is entertaining. Watching states flip blue (yay!) and red (boo!) brings a lot of suspense on election night.
But it should never happen again.
The presidency should be won by the person who earns the most votes across the entire country — not by the winner of a tactical game that focuses on a handful of "swing" states that have the power to decide for the rest of us.
The Electoral College is a racist relic, an undemocratic, unrepresentative throwback that should have been eliminated long ago.
This is simple. It's time for the electoral college to go.
Every single vote should count the same, no matter where you live.
It's how every election works, except the presidential election. Instead, we get a system where two presidents since 2000 were elected while losing the popular vote.
And that means that the power of individual votes differs dramatically from state to state.
This has to change.
Right now.
And that's why I'm proposing a constitutional amendment to fix our broken presidential elections.
By abolishing the electoral college, we'll make sure every vote counts equally. Democrats will have a reason to campaign in red states, and Republicans in blue states.
Jeff
