Winning !
Its going nowhere because swing states would clout under a popular vote system.
Our electoral system is abused by leftists and is not broken.
There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)
Therefore these 4 counties accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
I guess Trump wasn’t the only one who changed his mind.
The Electoral College turned out to be the last line of defense against clinton/obama corruption.
In the past, people just heard “democracy” and “one person, one vote” and instantly unthinkingly supported abolishing the Electoral College. Now people understand that without the Electoral College every Presidential election would be decided by the major cities and every President would be a Democrat.
The kicker is that the Electoral votes are determined by popular vote — by state.
That is by design, so the states with the largest cities would not dominate the elections. It is coincidental that more liberals live in those large cities than in rural states.
The electoral college just prevented California from stealing the election with illegal votes. As far as I’m concerned, that is enough to prove it’s value.
This is an issue now only because Hillary lost the EC vote. Period.
Goes to show us that in spite of what the leftist media and the Democrat party says...most people are saying “THANK GOD” for the electoral college! Which gave Donald Trump the win!
It makes sense. New York & LA would be picking the President.
Gallup. That’s a knee slapper of an org poll.
Idiots that undo the Founding Fathers work deserve to be slaves of future invaders and conquerors.
More people took notice of what it is and how it works and its purpose than they did before as a result of all of the bellyaching over the non-existent “national popular vote”. This appears to have backfired on the liberals.
California is the best example there is for having the Electoral College.
I calculated this out. In the four uber-liberal boroughs of NYC (not Staten Island), DC, Cook County (Chicago), Los Angeles County and the four largest counties of the San Francisco Bay Area, Clinton put up a victory margin well over 6 million (so far; still counting in California).
Take out those 11 counties - home to most of the elites and crazies on the left - and Trump would be leading the popular vote quite handily, probably by more than 5 percentage points.
If the electoral college were to be abolished, California would dominate the rest of the U.S. We would become colonies of theirs. Considering what they’ve done to their own state, would we really want them making decisions for the rest of us?
If the electoral college were to be abolished, California would dominate the rest of the U.S. We would become colonies of theirs. Considering what they’ve done to their own state, would we really want them making decisions for the rest of us?
The FOUNDERS rock!
One of the main reasons Hillary won the popular vote was due to the fact that California was totally uncontested in the election and voted overwhelmingly Democratic. Republicans in the state had little or no motivation to vote, thanks to a runoff between two Democratic Senate candidates and the knowledge that the state is hopelessly Democratic.
If Trump and Hillary had been campaigning for the popular vote, they wouldn’t have wasted so much time in tiny states like New Hampshire and Nevada and would have campaigned totally differently, spending time running up the score in big states like California, Texas and New York.
Finally, I firmly believe that many non-citizens vote in California. It just doesn’t make sense that the state is so completely out of step with what’s going on in the rest of the nation.
I think that what has happened is that people have begun to understand just what the Electoral college is and how it works.
I know I have gained a much better understanding of it and my kids have as well.
Besides, we are a representative republic. We are NOT a democracy, no matter how many times we are told that.