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The End of the Electoral College Is Finally in Sight | Opinion
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| Apr 19, 2024
| David Faris Associate Professor, Roosevelt University
Posted on 04/19/2024 2:31:03 PM PDT by Baladas
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here's another 2nd generation ME immigrant that's in higher academia and is also apparently insane. This scheme would take a constitutional amendment which would NEVER get enough states to ratify it but never mind that.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:31:03 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: Baladas
Once they attempt to implement this “Pact” when they achieve the correct number of states, the lawsuits that will be filed should put a permanent end to these shenanigans.
We’ll see.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:34:08 PM PDT
by
Pox
(Eff You China. Buy American!)
To: Baladas
That pesky Constitution.
Always in the way of a good time (bloody tyranny).
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:34:40 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
To: Baladas
Not really. As even Nate Silver wrote, they’re rapidly running out of low-hanging fruit states. Like this movement has less electoral votes right now than big loser Hillary Clinton received in 2016 (232).
Until a state that voted for Trump in 2016 signs on, it’s really not worth thinking about.
To: Baladas
“The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.”
Then how is the UN Security Council any different? China, Russia, United Kingdom and France are permanent members.
Large countries like Indonesia, India and Brazil are only non-permanent members even though they have enormous populations.
To: Baladas
This unfathomably stupid professor thinks we are not a constitutional representative republic, and evidently doesn’t give a RAT’s @$$ about states’ rights.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:37:30 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(E Porcibus Unum )
To: Baladas
Kon-sty-two-shun?
What’s that?
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:38:52 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
( )
To: packagingguy
"... the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.”
Perhaps that's why we have a Constitutional Republic and NOT a "democracy"?
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:40:23 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Biden Fundraising Failure: More advertising for rotting fish is unlikely to improve sales....)
To: Baladas
They’re crazy stupid and dangerous. Yet this bozo thinks the electoral college is “stupid”.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:41:22 PM PDT
by
toddausauras
(Trump 2024)
To: Baladas
They’re crazy stupid and dangerous. Yet this bozo thinks the electoral college is “stupid”.
To: Baladas
The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world. It is not a "democratic" institution; it is a federal republican institution. It is a brilliant method of preventing a democratic tyranny..
It has already malfunctioned twice this century
Indeed, it has functioned properly twice, ensuring ALL Americans have a voice, not just those living in densely populated cities.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:41:48 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Baladas
I'm no Constitutional scholar but it seems to me that this is unconstitutional. States can't enter into agreements of this kind with other states without the approval of Congress.For example: the states of New York and New Jersey were able to form "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey" (which manages bridges,tunnels and airports in both states) only because Congress approved.
It seems to me that this will have to be reviewed by SCOTUS at some point.
To: rfp1234
This unfathomably stupid professor thinks we are not a constitutional representative republic, and evidently doesn’t give a RAT’s @$$ about states’ rights. Pure "democracy" is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
The "perfesser" must be laboring under the delusion that he is a wolf.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:42:59 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Baladas
Consider the source. The author is a professor at Roosevelt University: a bastion of leftism in Chicago since its founding in 1945.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:43:31 PM PDT
by
PBRCat
To: Baladas
Amend the constitution is the only way....and it will never happen.
To: Baladas
Oh, goodie! Now the island of Manhattan can usurp the entire state of Wyoming. The Electoral College is one of the most brilliant things ever designed.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:45:26 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
To: rfp1234
They all want us to be a ‘democracy’. That’s why they keep calling us that.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:45:49 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Baladas
David Faris thinks the US is a democracy.
Fail.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:45:52 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
To: All
It is amazing to the hate dripping off the pages of these marxist journalists.
I get tired of them calling our electoral college system antiquated. They're so full of themselves with their attitudes I bet he couldn't sleep all night so he could put out what he considers a brilliant idea.
Something else punks like him do is call the founding fathers old white men when they were not old. In 1776 George Washington was 44, Thomas Jefferson was 33, John Hancock was 39, and the oldest was Benjamin Franklin and he was 70.
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
ssfromla
(All of this is to see how far they can push us and I have to tell)
To: Baladas
“...the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.”
Yes, the idea that the states, regardless of population, have some sort of say in the national government is really ‘stupid’. /s
Remind me, Prof. Faris, how is the PM of the UK elected to office? Is it the party that gets the most popular votes or the party that gets the most votes in Parliament? And what are your feelings about the Senate?
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posted on
04/19/2024 2:46:57 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
( )
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