End of the Electoral College is in sight if Democrats keep getting their way

Faux News ^ | February 16, 2023 11:00am EST | Chuck DeVore

[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. …

[rktman]

Yup. That electoral college is all that’s saving us from fraudulent ($)elections at this poin.......... Oh!? One county, one vote for president. THAT would at least force libs to actually get off their asses and go to these places. 🤔👍

[Political Junkie Too]

Compacts among the states are specifically prohibited by the Constitution.

Compacts are not prohibited, but they require the approval of Congress.

The Compacts clause was a check and balance against a Senate of the States, where Senators were "ambassadors" of their states who were sent to Washington to negotiate deals with other states via their own Senators in the pre-mass communication era. These "deals," or compacts, would have to be approved by the whole Congress before they could take effect.

In the post-17th amendment Senate, the Senators were disconnected from their home-state legislatures, making their role in negotiating compacts irrelevant. Today's Senators are more interested in pushing their donor party bloc's agenda, leaving the state legislatures to directly join other states in compacts such as the National Popular Vote.

However they got there, they are still interstate compacts that require the approval of Congress.

-PJ

[neverevergiveup]

People get elected because they play to the majority, often by putting together factions motivated by self-interest, hate, or both. There's zero argument against the fact that the Democrats, and leftists in general, are most guilty of this behavior. Witness the cultural revolution in China, and the anti-white hatred in this nation currently.

As such, there is no motivation for those in elected office to represent anyone other than those who voted for them. The only possible motivation they could have would be their conscience / ethics / moral compass, and we know all of those things are rare in politicians.