Generally speaking, Iowa needs the Electoral College to make sure presidents are aware of it about as much as the current president needs more self-esteem
But, but — but what about Iowa, asks Joni Ernst? Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. Arguments in favor of the perpetual continuation of that grand anti-democratic institution, the Electoral College, are both ancient and generally threadbare.
To state the most obvious issue, there’s something fundamentally stupid about the claim that giving voters everywhere the exact same power to elect a president is going to “silence” anyone. Besides, is voting for president the only way citizens can “voice” their opinions? What the hell is Joni Ernst doing in the U.S.
Now it’s true that the “losers” — relatively speaking — in a shift from an electoral college to a popular vote system would be closely contested “battleground states” that naturally attract candidate attention more than safely Democratic or Republican states. Presumably Ernst thinks of Iowa as a battleground state, which it has indeed often been in recent years. But these things often change. In the 2016 presidential election, Iowa was 10 points more Republican than the nation as a whole.
But the real howler about this is that Ernst is talking about preserving the power in presidential elections of Iowa, for God’s sake.
. Joni Ernst or whoever runs her Twitter account should take down that tweet before it really embarrasses her.
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