Posted on 12/23/2016 12:33:48 PM PST by mdittmar
Nobody ever mentions the fact that crooked Hillary also campaigned for ElECTORAL votes. NOT the popular vote.
Funny they never mention that fact.
You are sadly right. This is just part of the system to destroy our republic fully and totally. We’ve been on a march toward this ever since the country was founded. First we had direct election of the Senate. Then we had to have enfranchised women. Then enfranchised 18 year old people. The only thing left that protects the smaller, weaker, mostly conservative states from total elite/liberal domination. Unfortunately, the “people” fully support direct elections when they are framed as “liberty” and “democracy.” If this continues, and the Electoral College is abolished, there will never again be another conservative or even “less liberal” President. I hope that Trump’s election demonstrates that to many people so that we can fight, but I doubt it will stop the march to direct elections.
That was a rhetorical question.
It’s true. However, we’ve been talking to them and I don’t think they’re going to try it again.
Democrats’ “Disenfranchise The Vote” movement. “Let’s all vote for who L.A. and NYC say we should!!!”
There will be an uptick of Democrat votes in strongholds where it doesn’t make a difference in local elections and will affect the outcome of the so-called “Popular vote”.
California ran the board this time counting absentee ballots for what seemed far longer than in previous competitions. Usually if the number of outstanding ballots does not affect the outcome of a race, they aren’t tallied. Laws in some areas have changed in the past 20 years but others still hold to that.
A recent study of 3 progressives ALSO showed that two admit to preferring Marxism to our Constitutional republic, the other 1 will only confess to being a useful idiot.
Not so. This is a myth that seems never to die on this site.
>> Every state in this country should have equal weight. <<
How'd-ja like that beyotch?
Okay; then we make a law that any state that does this is excluded from the electoral college count and the amount needed to win will be reduced by the number of electoral votes those states have. Simple.
Game, set, match.
The state disenfranchises its voters so the nation disenfranchises the state.
Urban voting results should be disallowed.
“Nah, the states have the right to determine how their electors are apportioned”
On this issue that is what is being promoted. But for other amendments (such as the 2nd) the left wants strict federal intervention. It seems logical that seeking strict federal intervention on electoral procedures are also in keeping with a want of federal control of states rights as well.
Democrats have been trying this forever. I remember Maryland joining this "pact" like a decade ago.
Fact is, GOP controls the legislatures, red states won't do it, purple states won't voluntarily give up their influence in presidential elections. It's the same usual suspect deep-blue states, and has been forever. They need more large states to join, but Florida is not about to give up their relevance, so that California may have more sway. Of course, a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College is a dead-end too. At this point, that Los Angeles Times editorial about having the Supreme Court declare the in-the-Constitution Electoral College unconstitutional seems their most plausible route.
This ABC News article is nothing but a shill promotion piece for this dead-end effort too.
Yeah, I'm sure Ohio and Pennsylvania are just going to cede their say to California. New Mexico too, really.
Any legislator can file a bill. This hardly warrants an article.
Hopefully after Trump fills the upcoming Court vacancies
“The Electoral College is a relic of a bygone era, and we need to change this system...because we lost”
There, that’s more accurate.
The 3,000 contested military ballots in Florida in 2000 were approved by the Florida Supreme Court but not included in K. Harris’ certified tally. Put that in your Snope Pipe and smoke it.
“Hopefully after Trump fills the upcoming Court vacancies”
Posthaste, I might add.
Nixing the EC will work for the Dems as long as they feel it is to their advantage. As soon as the tide shifts, they will quickly be talking out the other side of their mouth in favor of it. Liberalism is absolutely a mental disorder.
In 4 years when Trump wins overwhelmingly this will die.
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