Soros is as close to the devil as you will find walking the earth
Riiiight
Let the island of Manhattan usurp the votes of the entire state of Wyoming.
The EC is a masterpiece of brilliance.
bfl
I don’t know if it is a “talking point”, or where I heard it, but I heard that campaigns are based on the strategy of winning the battleground states, of winning the electoral vote, state by state.
And the idea is, that if we had the popular vote determine elections, that campaigns would be run differently.
For example, Trump never visited California after the convention, because there was no way he would win the electoral vote in such a Democrat state. If we had the popular vote as decisive, he may have visited to try to trim Hillary’s lead in that state. But under the current system we have, with 48 of 50 states allocating electoral votes on a winner take all basis, it made no sense for Trump to go to California.
So if we had the popular vote as decisive, the campaigns would have been run differently, and we would have seen campaign time, ads, resources, etc. allocated differently among the states, than we saw actually happen in this election.
And if campaigns had been run differently, you may well have seen different vote totals.
And for all Hillary’s bitching and her henchmen bitching, remember Hillary got 48% of the popular vote. 52% of America wanted another candidate. She can hardly claim to be the choice of a majority.
The Clintons didn’t bitch about the electoral vote, when Bill Clinton won two elections and got less than 50% of the vote each time.
Fine, but it must be replaced by a scheme where each individual state, regardless of its population, is part of the formula for determining the election’s winner.
We have that scheme now in our legislative bodies: Senate is equal representation the states, House is population-represented.
Yeah, let’s become euro weenies! NOT! Escapees from Dumbassistan?
1. Why is this man not in prison yet?
2. He wants the rich to be taxed when he , and his like put their wealth into off shore accounts.
The 10th & 17th amendments plus the electoral college were the stoppers for the USA becoming an empire. One of the three is already gone.
If we had a true popular vote, the last bastion of fraud would determine the outcome of a close election. Recounts would last years!
Ending the EC would give about 5 states total control over the entire country.
No, and HELL no.
Break the power of the peutocracy *, resident in the Penthouse Archipelago of a few mega-cities, to dictate to the rest of us.
* peutocracy - rule by Peurile Effite Urban Twits
We need voting by congressional districts.
The candidate winning a district would get one electoral vote out of those representing districts.
The remaining two electoral votes would go to the winner of the popular vote in that state.
This is the fairest method and puts each congressional district on equal footing and encourages those to vote in extremely red or blue states by knowing that THEIR vote in THEIR district DOES matter.
States with loose voter id laws would rule the country.
The number of dead voters would increase exponentially.
The Dems have been trying to do this for years because of Ca and NY.
So, the Dodgers and the Astros both scored 34 points in the 7 games of the World Series. It is currently a tie so we need another game. that is what getting rid of the electoral college is like.
5 presidents have been elected while losing the popular vote. 4 Republicans and a Federalist. Never happened to a Democrat.
The several states were meant to be the government that ruled the people on a day-to-day basis.
This is why the Electoral College was designed to be a state-by-state body, not a people-at-large body, since its function was to choose the Executive of the federal government.
-PJ
End the subversives.