By John Fedele

The election system is as flawed as the primaries. In the primaries a party’s candidates swipe at each other and attack the incumbent and the states have to come up with the lesser of several evils, to run for the presidency.

The problem is, the primaries are a great source of revenue for those early states. Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. The scary part is we, the voters not in those early states, have to live with the candidate(s) that come out as the winner/winners as Super Tuesday approaches.

That means if a candidate really wants to run for the presidency he/she must appeal to those liberal, conservative, libertarian, isolationists, social conservatives, who dictate the winner in their state. That means a candidate will have to do more lying than usual.

It also means good candidates will drop out because they lost caucuses in states that only account for 48 electoral votes, or one fifth of what is needed to win. To drop out of the race because Iowa voters don’t approve of you is dumb, at best. And New Hampshire voters are not really the pulse of America. No, a serious candidate will hang around to the bitter end.

He/she should run his/her primary like it was the presidential election. Win the states that have the most electoral votes.

Spend your money and campaign hard in the states that matter. PA, NY,CA, FL,OH, MI, Il, TX, NJ, GA, and MD. If you win those states you will have 276 electoral votes and you will be the party’s candidate and eventually the president. The rest of the states are just in it because they have a right to be there.

The bottom line is: even though every vote counts, the electoral college system has outlived its usefulness. With the technology we have today, the popular vote should be the determining factor. That way your vote cannot be changed. Under the current system, those electoral representatives DO NOT have to vote for whom the state tells them to, and in some cases all votes from that state does not necessarily go to the winner. Some states can, as in their primary, elect to share.

The system is flawed.

 

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