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 ...
How about remedial 8th grade Civics for all NYT employees? What’s left of them.
dinodino calls for an end to the New York Times.
No thanks, I don’t want to live according to the dictates of the loony big cities particularly those of California. Our culture has enough infection from the snowflakes and Marxists looney tunes.
Knowing a thing at the gut level is good. Knowing it at the BRAIN level is better.
Yeah good luck with that amendment. Get all those states between ny and California to give up their power.
That’s going to happen.
Said nobody ever.
I predict that the Electoral College will still be there long after no one is left alive who remembers the New York Times.
The disproportional representation results from the fact that each state gets one Electoral Vote for each Representative and each Senator. So a small population state like Wyoming gets 3 votes, 1 for the single Representative and 2 “extra” votes for the Senators. California, on the other hand gets the same 2 “extra” votes, but they are spread over a population that is fifty times larger.
However, even if the disproportional representation was removed, and each state got Electoral Votes based on the number of Representatives along, Donald Trump would still have won. Since Trump won 30 states and Clinton won 20, Trump would have 60 fewer EVs and Clinton would have 40, so Trump would have won 246 to 192.
Clinton did not lose because of non-proportional allocation of votes to the various states. Clinton lost because the bulk of her votes were concentrated in a few states, while Trumps votes were spread across the entire nation.
Yep. They think that because Hillary won a game nobody was playing, she'd still win if everyone played by those rules.
Anyhow, a national election would require national standards and I'm pretty sure that Democratic election officials in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Fransisco and New York City really don't want us peeking at their voter rolls.
The Hill is reporting on the New York Times calling for an end to the Electoral College....
What is wrong with this picture...just what I said two weeks ago...
This news link copies another news link who reports it to another news link...FAKE NEWS!!!
Democrats have carried the national popular vote in five of the last six elections, and like Republicans in the years of their dominance of the White House from 1952 to 1988,
So republicans had a 30 year run of winning the popular vote apparently-
Still think vignetting rid of the electoral votes is a good thing libs? (They probably do though because they are trying to flood the country with illegals and ‘migrants’ and why they are letting felons vote etc-)
Does anyone believe the NYT would have published the same editorial if Trump had won the popular vote and Hillary had won the electoral vote? ANYONE??
wow ‘vignetting’ substituted for ‘getting’ lol-
NYT is an un-American entity, an enemy within, a traitorous organization spreading falsehoods and lies (fake news). There should be a massive class action lawsuit against them.
The Slimes is once again stuck on stupid. Apparently none of them studied American history nor understand the Constitution. They continue their death spiral and I’m enjoying the schadenfreude.
I thought that The NY Times was already on a death watch.
They Grey Lady has AIDS................
woops forgot link to article i posted from- http://thefederalist.com/2014/09/04/history-is-not-on-the-democrats-side-in-2016/
There’s so much Dumrat voter fraud that Trump won the popular vote as well
“Americans would prefer by overwhelming majorities to elect a president using a popular vote system, “
That old lie again.
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