Memo To Bill Nelson:
Click the Pic
Leave Our Electoral College Alone!
You less than worthless Jackass!
Why don't you do something you and your liberal pals are really good at?
Like......
Go play with yourself....
Excessively.....
Posted on 06/06/2008 8:35:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College on Friday, less than a week after the Democrats settled on how to handle delegates from Florida at their national convention.
“It’s time for Congress to really give Americans the power of one-person, one-vote, instead of the political machinery selecting candidates and electing our president,” Nelson said in a release announcing the amendment.
Nelson had announced he would offer the legislation in an address to his state’s senate in March.
Nelson said his principal argument for making the change is that the Electoral College permits a candidate with fewer votes nationally to win the presidency by capturing narrow victories in big states. In 2000, then-Vice President Al Gore won the popular votes but George W. Bush won the Electoral College.
Nelson cited that election along with this year’s contentious Democratic primary in Florida as reasons for his legislation. He sued the DNC last fall for initially refusing to recognize Florida’s full delegation at the Democratic National Convention.
Democrats on Friday decided to give each of Florida’s delegates a half-vote as a penalty for moving their primary ahead on the calendar without party approval. The move created a mess for the party after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), whom Nelson supported, won the primary. The result was disputed because candidates had avoided campaigning in the state. In addition to the Electoral College amendment, the bill would establish rotating primaries for presidential nominations, expand voting options and methods and try to improve voter registration and verification.
Legislation to abolish the Electoral College is not entirely foreign to the 110 Congress. Reps. Gene Green (D-Texas) and Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) introduced similar amendments in the House in early 2007.
The second part of the initiative would establish rotating, interregional primaries between March and June during a presidential election year as an alternative to the current primary and caucus system. The third portion would permit early presidential voting nationwide, require voting machines to produce a verifiable paper record, and encourage voting by mail, among other things.
typical commie
Can’t win? Change the rules! So typical of them. Obama won and they can’t admit it. I say to them “let it go and stop the whining.”
I was wondering with what system Nelson proposes to use for the popular vote. A runoff system if no candidate gets over 50% + 1 or first past the post even if the winner gets say only 40% in a multiple person race.
There is mathematics to show that small states will have a reduced influence. Therefore, their legislatures will not support the amendment. IIRC, it takes 3/4ths of the State Legislatures. This will not happen.
DOA.
This guy doesn’t understand Federalism.
so, according to democraps, we can judicially change the Constitution instead of by ammendment. when the Constitution becomes a “living document” it dies.
STDs Socialist Traitor Democraps
They are so burned over 2000. When the uncounted absentee ballots out West were counted, If I recall the article correctly, Gore lost the popular vote also.
Of course. The electoral college was designed to magnify the power of the smaller states, as well as forcing the presidential candidate to represent the entire country. Getting rid of the electoral college would mean that a candidate could win California, New York, and Florida, along with a smattering of votes elsewhere, and become president. The Lefties would love it, and establish their tyranny of the majority. For those of us in Alaska, we’d have less than no representation at all in the executive branch - who would care? No votes up here.
What a depressing thought.
I have also suggested changing the rules... by repealing the 17th Amendment.
Unless small states are suddenly willing to give up their rights, ain’t gonna happen.
This same attempt to undermine the constitution enviably happens during every election cycle.
Memo To Bill Nelson:
Click the Pic
Leave Our Electoral College Alone!
You less than worthless Jackass!
Why don't you do something you and your liberal pals are really good at?
Like......
Go play with yourself....
Excessively.....
Exactly! Those of us who DO NOT choose to live in some hell hole city will never cast a vote that would count ever again. considering the fact that city dwellers vote based on their much different experience in life and needs, they will make all the decisions for the entire country and i find that to be descrimination against those of us who live in the country.
“I wouldn’t mind seeing the Electoral College tabulated by congressional district.”
Or by county.
Did the people of Florida really ask for this, Nellie?
This from the party that invented “super delegates”...lol
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