Posted on 11/16/2016 6:21:34 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
Retiring Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, who was an outspoken supporter of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, is set to introduce a Senate bill that aims to end the Electoral College.
Boxer announced in a statement on Tuesday that the bill, which she planned to introduce later Tuesday afternoon, would determine the winner of presidential elections by the outcome of the popular vote.
She cited President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the Electoral College despite Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's apparent popular vote advantage.
Trump now praises Electoral College, says he could have won popular vote
"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
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Tell her to remove all the dead and illegals from the voter rolls and then see if she still wants to do it........it wouldn’t have helped them this time except for the dead and illegals that voted....
Let’s first count all of the absentee ballots (they don’t count them you know unless it’s within the margin) and you’ll see Trump won the popular vote too. Then let’s hear what she has to say ...
If I were dyslexic, I would have smiled as I read the headline as this:
ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO INTRODUCE BILL TO END BARBARA BOXER
Given the chance the Democrats would federalize your local public schools and city governments.
Or, we can just go Article V and eliminate them from the process.
She can introduce all the bills she likes. It won;t do any good. It will take a Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the Electoral College. It does not surprise me that her idiots believe that is all it would take. In reality, it won’t matter anyway. After we die off, the Nation won’t last a week with the SJWs that populate the colleges and universities running it.
This election we tried one more time to give them back a Constitutional Republic and up to now they are shitting on it. Hell with them let the sobs starve to death.Let them live like the North Koreans.
Why even have states?
The dimwits agree. No states and no borders between nations.
No guns either.
However the ruling class/political establishment are exempt from pesky rules and laws.
The have walls around their houses.
They have heavily armed security protecting them 24./7
They are exempt from Unaffordable Care Act.
It requires a constitutional amendment.
She’s nuckin futs.
Boxer is a has-been. Maybe she and Pelosi can share a room in “the home.”
That’s why the Constitution includes an alternative way to propose amendments. The founders recognized this very problem and included the method of having a convention called by the states for the purpose of proposing amendments. We have not yet used this method so the media tries to scare the sheeple away from it by calling it “radical” or “unprecedented”. The truth is that an Article V convention is really not a radical departure. It’s just a way to bypass Congress in the amendment process. The same check on the convention exists as it does on Congress’s power to propose amendments. Any amendment proposed by a convention must still be ratified by 38 states to take effect.
Get rid of the senate for the same reason.
Just another rapidly aging Leftist going out with a flourish ... in Boxer’s case, a flourish of stupidity, a characteristic for which she will be best remembered.
We the People, in order to reform a more perfect union, need to return the United States Senate to its rightful place, as a representative of the States to the Federal government. To do that, we will need to write an amendment, getting rid of the 17th, and return power to the place it belongs, with the people.
If we do that, Senators will be no more than State servants, and if in place today, there would be a 60+ Republican majority seated in that “August body”..in my best William F Buckley voice.
She really needs to take that course at Hillsdale College on the Constitution. I believe it takes an amendment of the Constitution to change the electoral college. And with the Republicans holding 46 of the 50 statehouses, that might be a problem. Oh well, it makes her low IQ constituents happy, and that’s all that matters for a Democrat.
As if she even knows how it works. LOL
In our legislative branch, the House represents population and the Senate represents states.
Our presidential election process should similiarly give weight to both population and states.
“The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately”
Usually only ignorant kids make that argument. For an old person to make it, well as they say:
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
Being a slave to NY and California's illegal voting.....NO THANKS!
i.e. either she is an idiot or she thinks we are. Neither is a good thing.
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