Posted on 12/29/2016 8:52:27 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Democrats still mourning the outcome of last month's election have added a new step to their grieving process: leveling charges of racism against those who support the constitutional method of electing the president.
In keeping with the process stipulated in the 12th Amendment, 538 electors representing all 50 states gathered on Monday to cast their ballots for the 45th president. The result – that Donald Trump will officially enter the Oval Office on Jan. 20 – was affirmed by the Electoral College, an institution the Left is now casting as racist and anti-Democratic.
Mere hours after Trump topped the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted: "Hello rest of the world! My fellow Americans are asleep right now so I thought we could talk and maybe explain what happened yesterday."
Then came his explanation.
"This racist idea, the Electoral College, 225 years later ended up benefitting the candidate who spewed racism hate," he opined.
The New York Times, in an editorial on Tuesday, described the centuries-old institution as "a living symbol of America's original sin," arguing that it was created at a time when "slavery was the law of the land" and a national popular vote would have "disadvantaged" Southern slave states, where blacks could not vote but were counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of a population count.
"The whole point of the Electoral College was an effort by the founders to balance large states versus small states because of the fact that we are a federal republic," Hans von Spakovsky, a conservative scholar of election law at the Heritage Foundation, told the Washington Examiner. "They were afraid that if the president were elected simply by the national popular vote, then candidates would simply go to the big urban areas...
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** yawwwn **
The Democraps proposal to cure “racism”:
Kill all White People.
It’s also vegan and gluten free
I got my diploma from there
Tough noogies.
Deal with it.
Your candidate lost.
Ours won...............
lol
I just accuse anyone who attacks Trump of being a racist. Hey, it’s what they did when we attacked Obama!
Trump has said that if this election were based on the popular vote, he would have campaigned in New York and California and still beaten her.
True in that he would not need to actually win those states....only peel around 2 million from her total nationally.
The electoral college cost the Ds over 1000 seats from local to state to federal offices over the last 3 elections.
To be fair, Putin probably influenced some of those state legislature races because he had a personal dislike for the D candidate. And wikileaks probably released some devastating details on a mayor or two. But that wouldn’t have mattered except for the “racist electoral college”.
/sarc
2018 is looking pretty good for Rs if Ds continue to focus on the electoral college, Putin, wikileaks, and bernie supporters to find blame.
Everything is racist. Just another phrase to pull out in the big tent of Democrat excuses.
It wasn’t racist in 2008 or 2012, but it’s racist now.
And they wonder why they lost...
..........and there football team (The Fightin’ Chads) is still undefeated!
When the electoral college was implemented blacks couldn’t vote, so how could it be racist?
First off, no it would have advantaged them. And second blacks could indeed vote. SLAVES of whatever color could not vote.
So having established that you do not know anything about the subject I thing I will not bother to read anything else of M&M's ignorant screed.
Freaking libs doing their best at projection again.
Sorry punks, that dog whistle doesn’t work anymore.
There is no doubt that the EC was part of the compromise with large population states and small population states to bring them into a coalition (the United States). This was based on population concerns. There was another compromise involving slaves that did not count a slave as a full citizen. This “slavery related” compromise lasted until the Civil War undid it. The EC does not have to hang its head regarding slavery, and this article is false.
The need to compromise between large population states and small population states is still with us.
Anyone seeking to change the rule would be welcome to do so except that it must be done via a constitutional amendment.
Michael Moore is wellcome to try.
Why, just asking that proves you are a racist. /s
You may be wise and I may be ignorant, but in this world my ignorance counts as much as your wisdom so I be!Ieve it. /s
Revisionist history from black activists. They can’t be bothered to read The Federalist Papers. It’s just easier to claim racism
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