Southern Illinoisan Wants to End Popular Vote in Illinois

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Stuff like this is blatantly retarded. I'm not even going to reprint the words on this page because they are so fanatically out of the mainstream and written with such a partisan tone that I don't want to waste the time and effort.

Essentially, this delusional newspaper, which just so happens to be the major newspaper in Southern Illinois, wants to do away with the popular vote in Illinois and institute some sort of electoral college. The rag paper is proposing this to purportedly curb the City of Chicago's influence in Illinois politics.

There's a reason why people in the rest of the state think those of us down in Southern Illinois are not very smart.  This editorial only adds to that stereotype.

Now, just so we all know, there's also a reason why this paper is called by locals the Southern Illusion.  This is a whole new level of stupid, however.

The only reason why The Southern's editorial board is proposing such a radical change to election laws is because the guy they voted for lost.  That's it.  If Bill Brady had won, the guy Gary Metro has been gushing about for months, then they would have been fine with the outcome and not proposed changing laws.  But since they lost and the evil Democrats are still in charge we must "break" them by legislating away the popular vote.

I wonder if the geniuses at The Southern realized that if we used an electoral system based on population, then Chicago would still have more votes.  And since Cook County is 40% of the entire vote it would still dominate elections and politics. Nearly half of the entire population of Illinois lives in one county.  The only way to break that up is to use a weighted system that grants smaller populations greater electoral votes, or to start counting livestock as three-fifths a person.

In all honesty, if Gary Metro wanted Bill Brady to win the best thing he could have done was not endorse him.