Posted on 05/01/2018 9:48:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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According to the continuing chorus of critics, the divergence of the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2016 proves conclusively that the Electoral College is an anti-democratic anachronism. The greater truth is that the critics don’t like the anti-Democratic result of the election. While President Trump is a unique, once-in-a-century national leader, his victory as a Republican is wholly consistent with the overwhelming national GOP consensus. Republicans control the Senate, the House, 33 governorships and the vast majority of state legislatures nationwide.
Democrats should forget about changing the rules and start worrying about their performance.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
When Democrats win, they praise our elections.
May they never win again.
Lets just declare the Constitution null and void
We’re halfway there already.
Dems pretty much know that they’ve screwed the pooch.
With Trump’s help, they’ve been exposed for what they really are (RINO’s too).
They would love to dump the electoral process, because they could register enough illegals and dead people to easily win with the popular vote alone.
Check the map of the last election...the only “blue” states are high population areas, mostly on the coasts. It would be a shame to let just those few states decide the election for the rest of the 50 states.
That’s what the electoral process is about, giving every state a fair shot at electing their president.
But since when did democrats give a crap about “fair”, unless it’s aimed in their direction?
Your scenario certainly shows the genius and common sense of our founders, doesn’t it?
2016 Electoral College: It was designed to be inclusive and it did just that.
Personally, I think if the results were the opposite that Democrats and Republicans would be saying the exact opposite things.
If Trump had won the popular vote and Hillary the Electoral College, there would be nearly as many calls for getting rid of it here as there are on DU, and the DUmmies would be singing the praises of the EC and ‘deploring’ the popular vote as nationalist populism or some such.
Just a cranky .02
If you do away with the Electoral College, you must also eliminate the US Senate. ————
And if you do away with the Senate, you must do away with the Constitution itself. Article V says that no amendment can take away a state’s equal representation in the Senate. On the other hand, doing away with the Constitution would also get rid of that pesky 2nd Amendment.
I think is may be that the “BLUE” States are thus, due to a very heavily CONCENTRATED left leaning population. The vast majority of those state’s area are less populated right/center voting people.
Just think what would would happen if the states themselves had their own ‘ELECTORAL UNIVERSITIES” whereby a huge, overwhelming populated city could no longer UNFAIRLY control the entire state.
I know in my state, these thoughts are rather correct.
That map makes for a great Republican bumper sticker for 2018 and 2020! What American citizen, residing in the vast expanse between the East and West Coast slivers of concentrated population centers (cities) along those Coasts, wants those little slivers to determine the outcome of the American Presidential election?
Thomas Jefferson recognized the dangers of corruption under such circumstances.
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." - Thomas Jefferson
The United States is not a democracy. The Electoral College is the only thing standing between us and the third world.
The Dems just want it this way:
If they win the electoral college, lose popular vote, they win.
If they win the popular vote, but lose the electoral college, they win.
If by chance, they lose both, the Deep State, Antifa, BLM, CPUSA, etc are expected to resist, demand resignation or impeachment until the election is reversed.
The electoral college -— A genius idea!
They never question it when they win.
I don't see Republicans ever doing either. Can you think of a conservative author that has questioned the EC when Republicans lose?
When Democrats lose we're flooded with articles on why the EC has 'outlived its usefulness'.
“Lets just declare the Constitution null and void”
If Electoral College is done away with, it will be.
And there will be a civil war over the issue.
For your consideration: From JPFO...
http://jpfo.org/articles-2018/bill-of-rights-thoughts.htm?awt_l=LmxsB&awt_m=JRHvucGSN_Zn_P
We were a one party system when they wrote the Constitution
You’re right.
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