"Where's that spelled out, the "equal influence" part? It's not. We have the electoral college, designed to keep the highly populated urban areas from overwhelming the sparsely populated ones. We have congressional districts for the same reason. But there is NOTHING spelling out "equal...
"where's the correlation between winning an election and personal wealth? Recall the recent California governor race and Meg Whitman versus Brown? If the public doesn't like the message no amount of high priced air time will win a high office. More important is how the media treats one candidate...
Republic, democracy, the ideal that our system was based off of is what matters. That ideal is the right for our countries citizens to be able to have equal influence over who gets elected to a public office that represents their concerns. As it stands only the upper socio economic class really...
True, Bruce Ackerman suggested a system known as Voting with Dollars. The gist of it is that every voter gets a 50 dollar card to contribute to whichever candidate they choose. Thus the focus of politicians goes from fund raising events and pandering wall street to actually responding to...
Starting in the 1890's any semblence of fair representation of the voter in politics has been laughable. The state tells us that our vehicle for participating in the electoral system has been our vote, however as it stands the common mans vote does not mean nearly as much as the rich mans...