There is a movement afoot to undo the Electoral College. We hesitate to give it any added credence (big-city newspaper editorialists and wannabes would love the increased power that results from it) but it has achieved significant support from some Republican quarters. You can read about the organization promoting obliteration of the system designed by our nation’s founders to enhance state’s rights here. We find most of the rationals sophistry or anathema to a constitutional republic. May we suggest that just across the river is a “political system” that provides a compelling analogy of what the most likely political results would be.
Illinois is arguably the worst run and most corrupt state in America. Governor of Illinois Pat Quinn won a majority vote in only three of Illinois’ 102 counties. Of course corrupt-liberal-Democrat-big-spending-machine-politics is key to the overbearing dominance of Chicago and Cook county in Illinois politics. True, Illinois counties do not operate on an electoral system at the state level, the popular vote does carry the day. But may we suggest that Illinois would be better off with an electoral system of sorts . . . maybe downstate sensibilities enhanced by such a system would have prevented the budgetary mess that the state is in? They could not do worse. Illinois should be the poster child for reasons opposing the undoing of the federal system and republican sensibilities through the “national popular vote” movement. In our judgement Illinois (and Greece) are the most likely resultant political scenarios for the “popular vote” movement.
Imagine the implications for the country when political dominance by the most populous states and their liberal media outlets is not mitigated by the system the founding fathers installed to help protect individual state’s rights, federalism and constitutional republicanism. More on the topic of support for the electoral college is available here and also here. Certainly many more analysis are available in support of keeping the protections that the Electoral College affords by searching the topic.
