Posted on 02/17/2023 12:07:51 AM PST by Olog-hai
Pundits and politicians on the political left have been pushing to overturn the Electoral College—the way America chooses presidents—by enacting a national popular vote interstate compact. Now, with 15 reliably blue states and the District of Columbia in agreement, and action pending in an additional six states, including Florida and Texas, the national popular vote is on the verge of reality. […]
It seems simple enough. Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, writes that “…the entire process of selecting our president… threatens the foundation of our democracy.” Reich goes on to note that, “In 2020, Biden owed his Electoral College victory to just 43,809 votes…” in three states with Trump likewise winning in 2016 by 77,744 votes in three states. This, he says, is “divisive” and “arbitrary.”
Supporters of the national popular vote say that instead of presidential campaigns focusing on a few battleground states (as they say the case is with the Electoral College), a national popular vote would force candidates to campaign across the entire nation. […]
Contrary to the proponents of a national popular vote, the U.S. is not a democracy; it’s a constitutional republic. This means that we elect representatives who are bound by the rules of the Constitution. This form of government is designed to best secure liberty and protect the rights of the citizenry—including the minority. […]
… The Electoral College is a direct acknowledgment that we have a federal form of government, not a national government where states are nothing more than enforcement arms of the national government. …
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sounds like the left is trying to overturn a future election...
INSURRECTION!!!!!
IIRC “interstate compacts” are illegal unless they’re approved by Congress.
Rat Party Headquarters’ wettest dream is to flip Texas. If they do that it’s game over.
Pennsylvania is a prime candidate to join this.
If this happens, only NYC and LA will see candidates.
Why bother? Brandon didn't have to campaign at all and still "won the popular vote" by 5 million.
They will say that those elected are responsible for defending the minority from the majority.
We know this will only happen selectively.
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It is a waiting game with them. They only need one mistake to come up the middle, like they did with Pennsylvania.
Resetting back to the anchient and oppressive order of city-states.
Well thank goodness we’re going to do the same. I’ll believe republicans want to win when we begin “souls to the polls” on early Sunday voting. Until then democrats will keep hauling their voters to vote on Sunday with BBQ enticements.
When that happens the Country will end also.
Legally speaking, the Electoral College is written into the Constitution and requires an amendment to remove it and that is not going to happen.
Compacts among the states are specifically prohibited by the Constituion. Not that that really matters to them.
Politics, at least the kind that involves voting, has division as its purpose.
When they vote in the House of Commons, Mr. Speaker announces, “the House will divide, ayes to the right, nays to the left”.
The accusation that by opposing the Left we are “divisive” is nonsense. Of course we are - that’s the whole point.
The simple solution is to make the process even more constitutional, ala, award EV by congressional districts which is what the EV are based on. You eliminate vote fraud for a generation. Negate the concentration of the masses and solve the dems faux problem of making candidates campaign everwhere. The vote count winner gets the 2 EVs for the senate seats. Candidates have to win the majority of congressional districts so they cant run up the totals in big cities. Everyones vote will have even more weight. The poor few conservative folks in CA would actually have a vote that matters in the conservative part of their state. Nebraska and Maine already do this. It isn’t unheard of. 3 of Maines votes go to the dem but sometimes the R gets the 4. Just like sometimes the dems win 1 district in Nebraska, so the dem prez would get 1 electoral vote.
We obviously haven’t learned anything from the MISTAKE that is the 17th Amendment.
Giving more power to a mob never improves anything.
Today SCOTUS considers Brunson II for further action. This case goes after the members of Congress who voted against investigating why multiple states sent multiple slates of electors to the Electoral College.
If successful, every member who voted against investigation will lose their office and right to hold office ever again.
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