It's some disturbing stuff, and even more worrisome is no one in the MSM is covering it.
So, if zerO wins the Electoral College, but loses the popular vote, will this still be a major movement?
If they ditch the Electoral College, they may as well lock me up because I would take to the streets raising some major L.
It works until the food producing states (and California’s Central Valley) decide that it is no longer useful to to give their production to leeches.
Every time the dems get scared, they attack the Electoral College.
Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution should be in play, here....
There is no honest way to pretend that changes in the Electoral College should not require a constitutional amendment. Any attempts to do it otherwise will be some form of power grab.
This would be a disaster to go to the popular vote, instead of the electoral college. If that was the case, you could just get the vote in the ten largest cities in the country and win the election ... hoo-boy!
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0bama must be in trouble if they are bringing this crap up again. You never hear about “problems” wit the Electoral College as long as Democrats win.
Actually, it is covered under Article II, Section I of the Constitution - and states are allowed to choose their electors in any manner they please ...
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.”
This is DANGEROUS !!! I live in MD and they have already passed this bill. If enough states [totalling 270 electoral votes] pass this legislation, the MD law becomes active. It works like this:
No matter who wins in the state of MD, all of its electoral votes will be cast for the winner of the National Popular Vote [NPV]. So, if the GOP wins MD [not damn likely], MD’s votes would go to the DEM [if he wins the NPV].
This will lead to major campaigning in ONLY the states with the biggest populations: CA, FL, MA, MI, NY, IL, IN, OH, PA, TX, etc.
Leftist power forever. That’s all that most leftists care about.
Here isa link to the site of the National Popular Vote
if anyone is interested
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/explanation.php
And the Acorn/SEIU ballot stuffing and rampant voter fraud in cities like Chicago get counted the same as those votes in honest states/cities.
It’s not democracy, it’s worse.
Eliminating the Electoral College would be a disaster!
The last worst Amendment was Amendment #17 of 1913, wherein the Constitution was amended to have the states’ Senators to be elected by a popular vote, replacing the Constitution’s Senators appointment by the state legislatures.
We already had a popular house of Congress, The House. The Framers had it right in having the State legislatures voting on whom they picked for their two senators, in staggered 6 year terms.
Thus, the Framers had the House composed of two year popular vote winners, yet, the six year Senate members were supposed to represent State Rights. A senator could be recalled at the will of the state if he voted against the issues important to the state legislature.
After the 1913 amendment, we have two popularity voted legislatures, one set for two years, the other set for 6 years - with no-one representing the states’s rights, just a bunch of politicians trying to suck as much cash out of the Federal system as earmarks will allow.
No more legislative branch checks and balances - the people of the states choose who represents them, regardless of qualifications.
Now the liberals are trying to erode all the checks and balances the Framers placed within the Constitution for the executive branch.
We used to have a great governance, the Constitution. Now it’s been eroded, slated to be eroded in the future.
Maybe after a few more years of Zer0, there will be direct election of the Supreme Court.
Then maybe the Muzzies will be able to reorganize under Sharia law!
I’m not so sure this would work to the Right’s disadvantage. We start every election with the electoral votes of California and New York pretty much lost. There are a LOT of Republicans in Orange County, the Central Valley, and upstate New York. This would give them a real voice in the election. Much easier for the Republicans to pick up votes here than it is for the Dems to scratch up votes from two dozen scattered, heterogeneous, reliably red states.