Posted on 04/02/2019 10:27:01 AM PDT by Beave Meister
For the first time in the country’s modern history, the existence of the Electoral College has become a campaign issue.
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently called for the abolition of the Electoral College, while other Democratic presidential candidates, including former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris, have said the Electoral College should be re-evaluated.
The Constitution’s framers originally created the Electoral College as a way to filter the “passions” of the people through state-appointed presidential electors with better judgment. They assigned every state a number of electoral votes exactly equal to its number of members in Congress.
But back then, electors weren’t pledged to candidates – so a state might have five votes for one candidate, and four for another. By the 1820s, the system had already evolved beyond what the framers intended. Each party chose pledged electors; if a party’s candidate won the most votes in the state, that party’s electors would get to cast all the votes.
This winner-take-all electoral vote system continues today in 48 states. In two states – Maine and Nebraska – presidential candidates win one pledged elector from each U.S. House district they win, and win two pledged electors if the presidential candidate finishes first statewide.
(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...
Donald Trump - The Echo of our Framers' Uncorrupted President.
Also:
http://articlevblog.com/2016/07/the-framers-president/
http://articlevblog.com/2016/08/the-framers-president-ii/
“Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently called for the abolition of the Electoral College, while other Democratic presidential candidates, including former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris, have said the Electoral College should be re-evaluated.”
What do I care about what a Fake indian, a fake Mexican and a fake American think?
It may make sense to award a State’s electoral votes proportionally to the percentage of the popular vote won by the candidate in that State. For example if the Repub wins 40% of the votes in California he get 40% of the electors. That would help erase the huge advantage the RATS have in electors before a vote is even cast.
Let the secessionist movement begin.
Bingo. Well said.
Federalism and Federalization are antithetical.
True...
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