Posted on 11/16/2016 11:28:17 AM PST by C19fan
On her way out the door, Barbara “Ma’am” Boxer has filed a bill to amend the constitution to eliminate the electoral college.
The left would not stop at aborting the EC. They would kill it retroactively so the 2016 results don’t count.
Please! Not this mob rule crap again........There are 50 states in this UNION
Larger states would run rough shod over us little guys just like large cities force their way and consume tax monies form urban areas. Democracy is basically a thug government that is why they chose a republican form of government. We had been approaching a THUGOCRACY, a mob takeover. Lets not go back.
Tace reaity!
The WITCH LOST!
It isn’t just Larger states in area....it’s the populations and crammed infestations of large cities and surrounding.
Thought experiment: dissolve the union for a day. Now try to reunite it. Convince residents in lower population states that it’s in their interest to allow states like New York and California to vote against their interests over and over again.
Democrats lose one, and they’re calling for scrapping the system of constitutional government that’s been one of the Greatest Success Stories of the past two hundred fifty years.
It’s an utterly moronic notion and should be shunned.
well there you go again, muddying up the story with facts. lol
I was checking on the Congress.gov site and there is no language for Boxer’s amendment; S.J.Res.41. So far it looks like a pure publicity stunt.
Too true. Thanks for the clarification.
NOPE!
KYPD
Heh heh....
“...vapidity...”
Nice!
KYPD
There is another way, though. Ten states plus Washington, D.C., have enacted legislation that could lead to a system that leaves the Electoral College intact but ensures that it deliver the presidency to the popular vote winner. This national compact stipulates that as soon as states comprising a majority of the Electoral College — 270 votes — sign on, each will award its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The Constitution allows states to allocate their electors as they choose — the winner-take-all system is not in the Constitution, and Maine and Nebraska have already abandoned it, choosing to split their electoral votes based on who wins in each congressional district.
So far, only blue states have signed on to the plan — Maryland was the first, and, yes, we endorsed the idea then, not just now that the candidate we supported, Hillary Clinton, has won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. But the idea has gotten some traction in places like Oklahoma, a state so red that no presidential candidate pays it any attention, and in some swing states, including Colorado and Nevada. The 11 jurisdictions that have signed on total 165 electoral votes, nearly two-thirds of the necessary total.
Isn’t such a compact or treaty among some states unconstitutional?
The States vote for President, not the citizens.
That said, if liberals were really sincere in this movement, they don't have to wait for a compact of 270 EV states to form; they could have their own state unilaterally pass legislation to award their own state's Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner now without waiting for other states. No Congressional approval is necessary for a state to act alone on this.
Some states could lead by example now, and just do it... but they won't...
-PJ
LOL, even Slate has articles defending the EC!
Well, if’n you don’t like the electoral college, perhaps there should be a “One Vote per COUNTY” system...
Wrong, dummy. Why would three fourths of the states, required to change the Constitution, vote for less power to choose our leaders? We are not stupid like Democrats are.
If we get rid of the electoral college, then we should get rid of the Senate at the same time. Let’s see that amendment get passed.
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