Instigator / Pro
42
1551
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Topic
#1676

The Electoral College should be abolished

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Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
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Better sources
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Better legibility
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Better conduct
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After 6 votes and with 42 points ahead, the winner is...

PoliceSheep
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
One week
Max argument characters
30,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
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0
1443
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11
debates
22.73%
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Description

The Electoral College should be abolished

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@Christen

This debate exemplified organization headings pretty well.

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@PoliceSheep

Valid points, but personally I disagree. Good topic though.

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@Dr.Franklin

Why do you think that?

LOL the EC favors Democrats

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@Alec

It's, for this reason, I don't support elected Heads of State and prefer our British Westminster system.

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@PoliceSheep

Under our current means of electing presidents, whoever wins the majority of support gets an entire term to themselves. If the Democrats get 60% of the vote +- 5 percentage points, then they are always going to win the white house, even though many people don't support them. Under the pie chart method, if you win 60% of the votes, your representative gets to be in office for 60% of a term. This way, democracy doesn't become tyranny of the majority, since every party can get representation. I predict the Dems or the GOP will reliably win elections in the future, so both left leaning and right leaning people need representation in government.

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@Alec

Pie chard method?

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@PoliceSheep

If we get rid of the electoral college, we need the pie chart method too to elect our presidents.

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@PoliceSheep

okay

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@Dr.Franklin

Presuming my opponent raises that issue in R1, I will address it in R2.

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@PoliceSheep

Protects the rural people

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@Dr.Franklin

Why not?

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@PoliceSheep

no no way absolutely no way

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@Dr.Franklin

It's undemocratic!

no it should not