VERY bad idea.
If there aren’t enough Senators and Congressmen to soundly defeat this move of Feinstein’s to ensure a one party system - guess which party - I don’t hold any hope for the country. It is time to clean House or else!!!
First, there is no popular vote because there is not a single election AND because each state uses different procedures for counting and not counting votes. As crazy as it may seem, some states—California is one of them—do not count absentee ballots if the number of absentee ballots is less than the plurality by which the person was victorious. California uses that method because counting absentee ballots is costly and time-consuming because they have to be handled individually. If those votes had to be counted, because they would have a bearing on her one election for President, God help us. We would have chaos because people in other states would have a vested interest in how California counts or doesn’t count its votes.
What Dumanne Feignstein seems not to realize is what she thinks is the presidential election is not the presidential election. The presidential election occurs in each state’s capital when the electors, all 535 of them, cast their ballots for president (and vice president). What she mistakenly believes is the presidential election is an election for those electors.
We do not—as Dumb Ann Feignstein continues to spout—live in a democracy. We live in a democratic (that’s an adjective Dianne) republic (that’s a noun Dianne.)
Agreed!
Yep...the Founding Fathers set up the electoral college for very good reasons, to keep the big states from perpetually steamrolling the smaller states. Also, the Framers would find the idea of allowing popular “mob” vote for presidential elections quite horrifying.