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  • The National Popular Vote: Vicious Democracy (2016)

    07/12/2023 3:27:26 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 5 replies
    Article V Blog ^ | August 17th 2016 | Rodney Dodsworth
    Democracy stinks. History is littered with short-live democracies that cratered between the bloodlettings of factions going at each other’s throats. Our Framers were well aware of their shortcomings from the lessons of history and their personal experiences since 1776. Popular election, the democratic element in the Framers’ Constitution, was limited to the House of Representatives. This satisfied the Declaration’s maxim that consent of the governed serves as the just basis of government. In Article II, the sovereign people assigned their Natural Right to elect their chief executive to another body, their state legislatures. As discussed in a recent blog post...
  • Knives out in House GOP whip race over Electoral College abolition

    10/28/2022 7:46:11 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 26 replies
    Nypost.com ^ | 10/28/22 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — A top House Republican’s little-known past job working with Democrats to change US elections and choose presidents by popular vote threatens to upend his bid to rise in the GOP ranks, The Post has learned. The three-way House Republican whip race between Reps. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) is expected to be the only contested GOP leadership vote and will be settled by secret ballot about a week after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, which Republicans are favored to win. Emmer, who is regarded as the most moderate option, is overseeing House GOP...
  • Senators Introduce Reforms to the Electoral Count Act of 1887

    07/21/2022 6:50:45 AM PDT · by NKP_Vet · 27 replies
    Washington, D.C.— Today, after months of bipartisan negotiations led by U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), two proposals were introduced which include legislation to reform and modernize the outdated Electoral Count Act of 1887 to ensure that the electoral votes tallied by Congress accurately reflect each state’s vote for President. In addition to Senators Collins and Manchin, the senators involved in the bipartisan negotiations include: Rob Portman (R-OH), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mark Warner (D-VA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Todd...
  • Election 2020 and the Allocation of Votes

    11/11/2020 8:22:06 PM PST · by jfd1776 · 11 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | November 11, 2020 A.D. | John F Di Leo
    Even if you dislike the results, even if there was massive fraud in multiple states giving you good reason to believe you actually won, you must accept the results that the press has published for those states. Those states have the RIGHT to allocate their vote however they want, under whatever rules they want, with or without fraud... and you have no right to bicker about it. You've got to let them. Why? Because that's just the way it is. You have to accept it. Now, I think that is a very interesting position. Most Republicans are citing the 2000...
  • Hillary Clinton joins Electoral College 4 years after it cost her the presidency

    10/29/2020 5:51:03 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 50 replies
    msn.com ^ | 10/29/20 | Joel Shannon
    Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but lost the 2016 presidential election because of the Electoral College. This year, she is slated to be a participant in that system. This year, Clinton is listed by New York State Board of Elections as one of 29 Democratic electors for the state. If Joe Biden wins the popular vote in New York, Clinton and the 28 other electors will vote for him to be the next president.
  • Hillary Clinton: Pelosi Ready to Unleash Liberal Hell on America if Biden Wins (VIDEO) [Nothing like the commie hell they'll impose on us if ChiCom Biden wins-jimrob]

    10/29/2020 9:26:56 AM PDT · by Helicondelta · 50 replies
    TGP ^ | October 29, 2020
    Hillary Clinton: Nancy Pelosi, and bless her heart in every way we can, has teed up a lot of liberal legislation... And one of the areas we’ll have to move quickly on is the courts. We’re gonna have to move quickly on everything, election reform, climate change...
  • Trump's paths (plural!) to 270 electoral votes and victory

    10/29/2020 6:24:41 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10/29/2020 | James L. Swofford
    I recently argued that the toss-up states may be different from what media and pollsters present and what you think. Based my view from the 2016 results, I have the race at 231 electoral votes for President Trump, 183 electoral votes for Mr. Biden, and 124 electoral votes as toss-ups.   This implies that there are several paths to 270 electoral votes for a Trump victory. The Blue Wall Falls Again If, as in the last time, President Trump sweeps Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, he will have 277 electoral votes.  This is without Trump carrying Florida or blue wall holdout Minnesota.  In fact,...
  • Why On Earth Would You Vote Democrat?

    10/21/2020 12:11:12 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 53 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 20 Oct, 2020 | Ned Ryun
    The answer should be obvious: you shouldn’t. Not in a million years. I know people who are still trying to decide whether or not to vote for Democrats in this election. As shocking as that might seem, it’s true. And as with any important decision that must be made, an important question to answer before deciding to do it is “Why?” While I know some people simply vote for personalities, let’s assume for sake of argument that some undecided voters are actually thinking people who want to wrestle with what is at stake in this election for them, their families,...
  • Here Are The Biggest Cases Amy Coney Barrett Will Help Decide On The Supreme Court This Term

    10/26/2020 10:30:28 AM PDT · by BeauBo · 22 replies
    Forbes ^ | Oct 26, 2020 | Alison Durkee
    Once she joins the court, she’ll provide a crucial vote in a Supreme Court term that will cover everything from voting rights and healthcare to immigration and LGBTQ discrimination. Here are the biggest cases coming up after Barrett’s likely confirmation: 2020 Election: (mail-in voting deadlines in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina; dozens of voting rights lawsuits are still playing out in lower courts, and any post-election disputes that arise) Voting Rights: (ballot harvesting) LGBTQ/Religious Discrimination: (religious exemption) Health Care: (whether the Affordable Care Act should be struck down). U.S. Census (excluding illegals from Congressional apportionment Mueller Report Materials: (whether House...
  • Dukakis to Dems: Ending Electoral College ‘top’ priority

    11/13/2016 12:32:58 PM PST · by ColdOne · 102 replies
    thehill.com ^ | 11/13/16 | Mark Hensch
    Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis says his party must do everything in its power to abolish the Electoral College. “Hillary won this election, and when all the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes,” he wrote of the Democratic presidential nominee in an email to Politico Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT “So how come she isn’t going to the White House in January?” the 1988 Democratic standard-bearer asked. "Because of an anachronistic Electoral College system that should have been abolished 150 years ago. “That should be at the top of the Democratic priority list while...
  • The Electoral College did more in 2016 than you might think: Without the Electoral College, it would be just three counties picking America's President!

    10/19/2020 9:01:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10/19/2020 | James Swofford
    As the attacks on the Electoral College continue, we can see how important the Electoral College is from the 2016 presidential election results. Many observers have noted that Clinton's margin in California was greater than her plurality nationwide. Many observers have also argued that without the Electoral College, a couple or a few large states would dominate elections. What few if any have noticed is that in 2016, the Electoral College prevented 3 out of 3,141 counties with about 5% of the electorate and population from picking the president. According to the New York Times election results, Hillary Clinton received...
  • Americans Are Moving in Droves: Will It Totally Remake the Electoral Map?

    10/06/2020 5:13:07 PM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 36 replies
    Realtor.con ^ | October 6, 2020 | Claire Trapasso
    In just four weeks, voters from all corners of this bitterly divided country will cast their votes for the man who will either become or remain America's next president. Pollsters, pundits, and politicos have obsessed over the ever-shifting electoral map and how a handful of swing counties and states could decide whether President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden will be named the nation's commander in chief in what is shaping up to be the most contentious election ever. There's a head-spinning number of variables at play: the continuing coronavirus crisis, a struggling economy, a reckoning on systemic...
  • Dismantling the Electoral College Means Destroying America

    09/14/2020 9:02:18 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 54 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | September 14, 2020 | Joseph MacKinnon
    Democrats plan to end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court with radical judges. These changes would give the left license to radically transform the nation. There is, however, another threat they’ve dusted off ahead of the Nov. 3rd election that—if executed—wouldn’t just be transformative, but totally destructive. They want to abolish the Electoral College. Destroying this institution will mean the end of national campaigning (and the engagement, negotiation, and localized promises that go along with it). What politician will ever again stump in Kenosha or Breckenridge? What will a vote get you in Idaho or Montana? It will mean...
  • Why the Democrat Talking Point Nonsense About Trump Refusing to Leave Office?

    09/05/2020 8:47:11 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Powerline Blog ^ | 09/05/2020 | John Hinderaker
    One of the Democrats’ more lunatic themes is their insistence that if President Trump loses the election, he likely will refuse to leave office, in effect staging a coup. Most recently the claim was made by Bernie Sanders. Politico headlined: “Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office.” To some extent, this may be projection. The Democrats themselves have been staging a slow-motion coup for nearly four years, trying by hook or by crook to force our duly-elected president out of office. And they are the ones who have vowed to count and recount ballots to...
  • National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

    09/04/2020 6:28:11 PM PDT · by Ben Dover · 38 replies
    September 4, 2020
    Is there a need to worry about this National Popular Vote Interstate Compact pulling the rug out from a President Trump win this cycle?
  • Twitter Censors Trump Tweet About ‘Voter Security Disaster’

    08/23/2020 2:32:56 PM PDT · by White Lives Matter · 34 replies
    Breitbart ^ | August 23, 2020 | Allum Bokhari
    Twitter hid another tweet from President Donald Trump behind a warning label earlier today, the latest in a string of censorship against the President that the platform has taken this year. Earlier today, President Trump tweeted that mail drop boxes are a “voter security disaster,” that allow people to vote multiple times. The president also warned that the mailboxes are not sanitized to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus.
  • How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970

    08/23/2020 1:46:00 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 45 replies
    History channel ^ | August 3, 2020 | Dave Roos
    On September 18, 1969, the U.S. House... voted by an overwhelming 338 to 70 to send a constitutional amendment to the Senate that would have dismantled the Electoral College, the indirect system by which Americans elect the president and vice president... The House vote, which came in the wake of an extraordinarily close presidential election, mirrored national sentiment about scrapping an electoral system that allowed a candidate to win the presidency even while losing the popular vote. A 1968 Gallup poll found that 80 percent of Americans believed it was time to elect the nation's highest office by direct popular...
  • Newt Gingrich says Trump win will be 'dramatically bigger' than expected

    08/23/2020 1:24:32 PM PDT · by Repeal 16-17 · 74 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 23, 2020 | Victoria Garcia
    The chances of President Trump getting reelected in November are looking extremely good, Newt Gingrich said Saturday night. "I'm predicting that it will be a dramatically bigger victory than people currently expect," the former House speaker from Georgia said during an appearance on Fox News' "Watters' World." A Trump victory is "beginning to build," Gingrich added.
  • Nonprofit mails 587,638 erroneous absentee ballot applications to Virginia voters

    08/09/2020 8:30:10 AM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 57 replies
    NBC News 12 ^ | 08.07.20 | By Graham Moomaw
    A misunderstanding of Virginia’s independent cities and counties apparently led a nonprofit voter registration group to mail 587,638 absentee ballot applications to Virginia voters that asked them to send the ballot back to the wrong election office. The Center for Voter Information said the mishap was an honest mistake mainly affecting voters in a handful of localities that share a name: including Fairfax City and Fairfax County, Richmond City and Richmond County, Roanoke City and Roanoke County, and Franklin City and Franklin County.... The mass mailing, which involved more than 2.2 million pre-filled absentee ballot applications statewide, sowed confusion for...
  • At the end of the day, it's only July, there are a lot of unprecedented events happening, ... if we wind up in a photo finish, Trump likely wins b/c of the Electoral College.

    07/28/2020 7:05:21 PM PDT · by rintintin · 33 replies
    @NateSilver538 | July 28 2020 | NateSilver538
    At the end of the day, it's only July, there are a lot of unprecedented events happening, polling is more accurate than its critics think but probably *not* as accurate as it was in say 2004-2012—and if we wind up in a photo finish, Trump likely wins b/c of the Electoral College.