Posted on 12/20/2016 2:32:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
The New York Times is calling for an end to the Electoral College.
Americans would prefer by overwhelming majorities to elect a president using a popular vote system, the newspaper’s editorial board said in a piece published Monday.
“They understand, on a gut level, the basic fairness of awarding the nation’s highest office on the same basis as every other elected office — to the person who gets the most votes,” the editorial said. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I think they are teaching History classed different. Every article such as this says it was to protect slavery which is total BS. It was done so that rural states (which was most of them) would not be ruled by the Eastern states with a large population, and effectively having no participation in the election. The EC is a compromise between the states that are rural and urban.
The Left cannot dispense with the electoral vote without a Constitutional Amendment.
Period.
Why does the Left hate the electoral system? The same reason they hate the Constitution. Because both go against tyranny. Both favor decentralized power and representation . Both implement our Free Constitutional Republic against the tyranny of Leftist Democracy and the tyranny of the majority.
I second the motion calling for an end to the decrepit, lying NYT.
Just as their futile recounts and pathetic attempts to subvert the electors, this will never happen. Two-thirds ofthe states will not commit political suicide by approving the popular vote that would give CA, NY, FL, NJ,and TX power to select the president & VP while the other states would pay the bills. Only the stupid think that this will ever happen.
it’s the end of times
Heard today that the MacDaddy or HMFIC - a Constitutional Scholar/Professor - or so they say, was befuddled why Montana had as many Senators as California and virtually saying it was ‘unfair’.
Of course he had visited all 57 states so I would imagine he is a lot smarter than the rest of us.
I have been ‘saying’ for his entire tenure that his MAIN PROBLEM is that he has to be the smartest person in the room.
Bad Idea as, in order to keep things to his liking WE ended up with the likes of Biden, Hillary, JF’nKerry etal.
Hard to be the ‘smartest person in the room’ when you tend to be one of the dumbest people on earth...
“Americans would prefer by overwhelming majorities to elect a president using a popular vote system”
If this were true they should have no trouble passing a Constitutional Amendment making it so.
But it’s not true.
This is just the NYT sowing dissension and unrest.
Not actually "an end to the Electoral College." And - big surprise - all signatories went for Clinton by at least 10% and all but two (NJ and RI) by at least 15%. Good luck getting red states to join.
Fake news - aka, bare-faced lie.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/198917/americans-support-electoral-college-rises-sharply.aspx
49% to 47% is not even close to an overwhelming margin.
Americans by a wide margin AND in every popular vote referendum have opposed “Gay” rights.
Now now.
That fish ain’t gonna wrap itself. Them bird cages need liners too. And 75% of the homeless agree: The New York Times makes for great cover as they are sleeping one off on some park bench on a cold night.
NYC pinched them off, they can keep them and their welfare sucking habits there. ESAD NYT.
New York Times really does look like the fools they are.
I wouldn’t expect a Mexican newspaper to understand the constitution.
How many people in small or swing States, in contrast to those in big States and those in major cities, agree with abolishing the Electoral College? I'm guessing the number is very small.
Hey N.Y. Slimes, how about we test this theory out on a couple challenging national issues first like.....
Gay Marriage
Affirmative Action
Late Term Abortion
Voter I.D.
E-Verify
Whadda bunch a Maroons!
This whole argument is based on a false assumption that the popular vote would have been the same either way. There is simply no way to tell what the result would have been in an election based on national popular vote, since this one was not. If it had been so based, the campaigns would have been conducted quite differently, and the voting behavior in states that weren’t competitive would have been very different as well.
Since liberals love the UN so much, it might be profitable to ask them why each country only gets one vote in the General Assembly, regardless of its population. Pitting two of their contradictory beliefs against one another is always good for creating a mental short circuit.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
BS. I understand on a gut level the tyranny that the Big Blue counties would impose over the rest of the country if we went with the popular vote. No thanks.
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