I’ll bet you didn’t miss it one bit!

What have you contributed, besides insults?

Mouse, even though it’s been patiently explained to you before, I’m going to do it again, succinctly – you’re an idiot. Despite your long and constant presence here, you’ve probably contributed something interesting or useful to the discussion a handful of times (I can’t actually recall any such occasion, but even a stopped clock, etc.) So I’m never going to give more an a couple seconds thought, if that, to anything you say. At best, you’ll get what you got above – your stupid statements labeled as stupid. Nothing more.

Interesting comment, considering that the Democrats came up with rules that give more delegates to districts that voted their way in the last presidential election, thus making some people’s votes more valuable than others. Then, of course, there is the question of how democratic it is to have one’s nominee chosen by the “superdelegates.”

“Yeah. That whole democracy thing sucks.”

When you put the word “direct” in front of it, yes it does suck.

I’m not surprised that a lot of people don’t know about the Unit Rule.

After all, it’s been 184 years since anyone had to worry about it.

What I am surprised about is that people continue to indulge Sabato’s penchant for thinking of himself as a modern-day James Madison.

http://tinyurl.com/46abra

Terrible idea. It’s just about the last bit of proper Federalism that we have left.

And no, I’m not protesting too much. I really hadn’t thought of it in partisan terms. Like so many of the things I post, I throw it out for folks to talk about. I’m no expert on the rule and since I didn’t have government in HS, I hadn’t heard of it before.

Larry’s the best at his primary mission, though, which is the promotion of Larry.

I’m with you on this one.

Sabato’s idea seems to be a bad solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist:

http://tinyurl.com/3tzghh

I’d also add that Sabato has written a book containing a whole bunch of proposed changes to the Constitution and putting forward the in my opinion absurd and dangerous idea of calling a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of considering the ideas that Larry has handed down from Mr. Olympus, I mean Charlottesville.

Not only is Larry Sabato no James Madison, I don’t think there are 55 people in America today that I would trust enough with the authority to completely re-write America’s founding document.

It’s probably unlikely to ever happen because small states would be required to meet the three-fourths needed for an amendment. And I don’t know that they would be too keen on the idea.

defeating two of the three Wolf, Nye and Goode would give the Democrats the delegation majority.

We cant DEFEAT Glenn Nye!?!?! You mean Thelma Drake….
We really need to defeat her!

Actually, you need to learn the difference between good-natured ribbing and partisan attack, and to consider whether a comment is the former before engaging in the latter. I had hoped for an honest answer to the question. Now, I merely wonder whether you doth protesteth too much.

Now that I’ve read Larry’s article (I hadn’t before), I confess that I don’t think much of his argument. It basically seems to be, well, we’re more democratic now, and therefore, we should make presidential elections more democratic.

And I suppose his suggestion for “one-man, one-vote” in the House in such a circumstance has nothing to do with the current and probable future makeup of the House of Representatives. Yeah. Sure. That ship sailed when he decided to give aid and comfort to Jim Webb in 2006.

My conservatism extends to the Constitution in particular. If you want to change it, you’re probably going to have to prove to me that you’ve got better ideas than Madison, Jay, Franklin, and Washington. Otherwise, probably not.

Larry’s a bright guy, but he’s no Madison.

Get rid of the Electoral College.

Sometimes partisanship matters. For the good of the Country, we need Democrats in charge for the next 4 years.

I honestly don’t know what it currently is, as I haven’t checked.