Electoral College Makeover
544A Camp Street Suite B
New Orleans, La.
Campaign season. That endless spectacle where the wise and the honest are separated from the electable. Along with the coming soundbites and fury are the inevitable calls for the elimination of the electoral college. Let them go on calling. We think the electoral college worth saving.
The legacies handed down by the Founding Fathers have been amended, interpreted and ignored into irrelevance. All that's left of the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence is John Hancock's signature.
So the electoral college is the only legacy remaining, and in the name of Madison, Jefferson and the heroic paper boy who delivered the Federalist Papers, we say keep it. It may be antiquated and undemocratic. But the real problem is its yawn provoking dullness.
After all who cares a hoot about a college without a fight song and cheerleaders. The fact is the only other college around without a football team is the College of Cardinals and they have pomp, pageantry and that puff of smoke.
The makeover should start with the mascot. Something warm and fuzzy. How about a Panda? The electoral college Pandas. Now there is a college only Scrooge would want to eliminate. A football bowl appearance wouldn't hurt either. America is a big country. There must be another Knute Rockne out there somewhere.