Dump Winner-Take-All

This article that I was reading in the LA Times this past sunday dealt with the issue of the way the elections are run in the U.S. in this particular case, the presidential elections. The article opens with, “

the effort by some California Republicans to alter the way the state’s electoral votes was distributed in presidential elections has been miraculously resurrected” (Keyssar).

They don’t agree with this idea of winner take all, basically the winning of the popular vote. Some Democrats argued that the Republicans responsible for this effort, are only power hungry, trying to push their odds of having an edge over the GOP. It is argued, that in most states, smaller elections are based on that idea of winner take all which enrages some Republican politicians. They believe that it should be wrong to impose a winner take all in a state to win the electoral votes of that one. All the efforts are imposed to make things fairer when it comes to elections because if they divided up the Electoral College it would it enhance it. There has been a bill hoping to get rid of the whole winner take all idea present in the states. Both parties argued about this issue.
In my opinion, I find this quite ridiculous. We should not be facing arguments about this type of cause at the moment. The article says,

“if both parties worked together on such legislation, jointly committing
themselves to remedy a design flaw in our Constitution, they might even succeed
in dissipating a bit of the cynicism that the electorate so frequently expresses
about political parties that seem far more interested in their own welfare than
the fate of the nation” (Keyssar).

I believe they should leave this issue at bay because we have other things to worry about than this. I believe the Electoral College is fine as it is right now. Sure, we the people don’t fully get represented but if we were given full representation it would be too hard and division between votes would cause too many discrepancies. This would cause other people opposed by this idea to stand causing a huge chaotic argument. There is this sense of being represented when it comes to wining the electoral votes of that state by winning the majority vote of that state. We shouldn’t linger on this topic.

Works Cited: LA Times Sunday Edition, “Dump Winner-take-all” (Opinions Section) by Alexander Keyssar