Posted on 11/14/2016 10:07:34 AM PST by holy joe
In the wake of president-elect Donald Trump's dramatic victory, many of the more outspoken left-leaning journalists, mainstream media pundits, and entrenched politicians have now placed in their sights the Electoral College.
Having the distinct feel of a coordinated campaign, mainstream outlets have flooded the media landscape with attacks on the time-honored process embodied in the U.S. Constitution.
The New York Times recently published a piece titled "The Electoral College Is Hated by Many. So Why Does It Endure?"
The Baltimore Sun featured an editorial titled "Ditch the Electoral College? Yes we can."
Forbes floated an analysis titled "Don't Blame Pollsters. Blame The Electoral College."
The Nation published a piece titled "The Electoral College Has To Go."
And following the all too frequently used template of liberal provocateurs, Slate put out an incendiary race-based article titled "The Electoral College Is an Instrument of White Supremacy."
Now, in what appears to be perpetual political warfare on the part of radical liberals, some of the Left Coast's most celebrated foot soldiers are attempting to manipulate the public by raising the issues of the Electoral College's validity and relevance, and the potential to circumvent the constitutionally defined process.
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I’ve said it before. If the blue states want to divide their electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote in their states then that’s their prerogative. Nobody’s stopping them.
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Don't you want Hollywood liberals to turn on the nation's out of work auto workers and coal miners?
Second, PA was one of the first states to close the polls and begin counting, while the ones you cited (AK and AZ) were still open for three more hours before they even began counting. Early calls for small states were based on history trends and exit polls, so PA was the state that Fox News called (as well as AP and PBS-NPR) that put Trump over the top as far as TV viewers were concerned.
-PJ
Rather than abolishing the Electoral College, I favor abolishing California.
There should be two new conservative red states and one blue costal state
Yeah, no surprise here. Figured that we’d be in for another round of this. Jeez, they’ve not even finished counting all of the votes yet.
These supporters don’t seem to realize that a) the votes are still being counted, b) less than 1% separates the candidates, meaning recounts are just about a given — across an entire nation, not just in one state, c) flurries of vote and voter challenges, d) irregularities in the recounts and lots of sudden votes.
If we had this, the federal government would have to set up the rules for voting, not the states, or one state’s rules could give it an unfair advantage.
If we had a popular vote, more Republicans would likely turn out in places like California and New York if they thought their vote would really count. Many Republicans in solid blue states probably don’t bother to vote currently.
Sixteen years, and no DNC grass-roots effort yet for a Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the Electoral College? ROTF.
Make lists of the names of all these people that are mentioned in the media as associated with this situation
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