ChiFi DiFi do us a favor! Retire and leave us alone.
"I dream of a day when 5 or 6 major cities will have total control over who becomes the US president. The voters in about 45 states will have no say in the matter! Those ignorant rubes don't deserve to vote at all! Now ... all I have to do is convince two-thirds of those god-forsaken states to vote for a Constitutional Amendment that will drastically reduce their own political relevance .... hmmmmmm ... how can I do that? Maybe Hillary has an idea ..."
She's proposing it because she knows if a California Constitutional amendment passes, dividing up the electoral votes between vote-getters, then California will become even more irrelevant in Presidential elections, and that Republican dominance of the White House will last for decades, until another sea change in American and California politics.
Smells like old crusty is giving orders again. '08 starts now.
The recipe for electing the president was cobbled together in the final days of the Convention. Nobody was satisfied with it, but it was the best the combined minds of the Convention could come up with.
In December 1829, Andrew Jackson, in his annual message to Congress, argued in favor of a constitutional amendment to elect the president by popular vote. Jackson argued that we were no longer a republic, but a democracy, and the Constitution needed to be updated to reflect that fact. (He also proposed direct election of senators.) Jackson's idea was too far out in front of the public, and it went nowhere.
After the close call in 1968, several plans were brought forward. One was a revival of Jackson's 1829 suggestion. The other, proposed by Republican senators Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Karl Mundt of South Dakota, suggested granting each congressional district one electoral vote and each state two electoral votes.
Both ideas continued to gather adherents in the Seventies, but then the momentum went out of the movement.
Maine and Nebraska, however, decided to follow the Dirksen-Mundt idea on their own. Both states assign electoral votes by congressional district and assign two votes to the state in general.
Is she actually clueless enough to believe that she could actually succeed in this dopey impossible quest, or is she just fundraising?
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This lady is sitting in congress and she doesn't even know what form of government we have! Democracy?? Not on your life, lady. She needs to resign immediately and go home. She's too ingnorant to serve the public. People elected her?
She'll get 37 states when Bill goes a year being faithful to Hillary...I think we are safe.
This will go the way of the ERA.
She truly is an idiot. I'm sure the west and south will line up to give away their electoral power.
over 10,000 amendments to the constitution has been proposed in our over 230 year of existence........only 27 have made it all the way...............this will never happen.....
Besides the fact that we are a republic and not a democracy, the Electoral College is one of the few brakes on RAT fraud. Can you imagine the vote numbers the Rats would produce out of NYC, LA, Philadelphia & Detroit, if they simply had to produce a popular vote majority.
As Sponge Bob said, in his recent movie, "Good Luck with that". About as good a chance as getting abortion out of the democratic party plank.
ChiFi DiFi do us a favor! Retire and leave us alone.
I've seen how 21st Century democracy works, Senator: in Florida in 2000, in Washington State right now.
I don't want any part of it.
Will somebody send her a sock and instructions on how to stuff it in her cake-hole.
maybe she should worry about really really really important stuff like.... global warming or maybe ..... population control in California.. with so many people on the San Andreas Fault the shear weight is causing California to slip into the ocean... thereby endangering the delicate ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean...
What a corpulent, bovine, ignorant user of oxygen... aaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!! (I'm all better now)
If it weren't for the EC, candidates would campaign in 2-3 cities (NY City, LA, Chicago) and ignore the rest of the nation. Taxes would flow exclusively to those few cities. The EC gives the rest of the nation a voice.
