raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 3:56 pm
MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn demands Electoral College-like systems in the states because GOP Senate candidates keep losing since they can't win over "the majority of the population": "We cannot defeat the population centers without the Electoral College."
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That used to literally be how it worked, prior to the 17th Amendment. Senators were chosen by the state’s legislature, which acted in the role of the Electoral College.
State legislature elections were also sometimes proxies for a federal Senate seat. That was famously the case when Lincoln and Douglas engaged in their eponymous debate series - each Senate candidate was stumping for his party’s slate of state legislative candidates, in hopes of winning enough support in the state legislature to win the Senate appointment.
But - alas for Vaughn - he can’t get his wish without amending the Constitution to remove or alter the 17th Amendment, and that ain’t gonna happen.
I do have another suggestion for his audience, though: start nominating candidates who can win over a majority of the electorate. I’m old enough to remember the pre-Trump era, when both parties gave some serious consideration to “electability” during primary season.