10-24-2011, 07:49 PM
swampy wrote:
A good argument might be that it's the Constitutional way we do things. Until there is an amendment to the Constitution it will be the way we continue to do it.
I don't see how any Congressional bill can just up and change the Constitution. It may be a popular aspiration of the liberal elite, but I doubt it can pass in Congress.
That's not an argument at all since the thread is about whether we will have a constitutional amendment. A constitutional amendment must be ratified by 75% of the states after it gets passed by the congress, so I don't know why you are talking about it as though it's only a congressional matter. Also, what does this have to do with the "liberal elite"? The electoral college system can hurt both conservatives and liberals by causing unrepresentative election results.