Posted on 12/17/2016 8:50:27 AM PST by ColdOne
A former constitutional law professor criticized the Electoral College system on Friday, saying that it is a “vestige” of an “earlier vision” of how the U.S. government was going to work.
“The Electoral College is a vestige, it’s a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work that put a lot of premium on states,” President Obama said during an end-of-the-year press conference.
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He was never a professor. Hos lame title was “lecturer.”
Besides which . . . the name of the country is the United States of America.
Not the Amorphous Blob of Voters.
NYC has ~8.5 million people according to the latest census.
Los Angeles has ~4 million people according to the latest census.
Chicago has ~2.72 million people according to the latest census.
In NYC: 35.7% of those ≥ 25 years of age have a bachelors or higher degree, ~45% of those ≥ 25 years of age have a high school diploma, and ~20% of those ≥ 25 years of age have no high school diploma.
In LA: 32% of those ≥ 25 years of age have a bachelors or higher degree, ~43.5% of those ≥ 25 years of age have a high school diploma, and ~24.5% of those ≥ 25 years of age have no high school diploma.
In Chicago: 35.6% of those ≥ 25 years of age have a bachelors or higher degree, ~47% of those ≥ 25 years of age have a high school diploma, and ~18% of those ≥ 25 years of age have no high school diploma.
These are the top 3 cities in terms of population in the US. What is it exactly that makes urban areas like these so superior in wisdom vs the rest of the country such that people like Obama think they should decide how the rest of us live - via the popular vote?
That doesn't even take into account the fact that in NYC 37.2% of the population are foreign born (those counted in the last census) and 49.1% speak a language other than English at home; and in LA 38.2% of the population are foreign born and 60% speak a language other than English at home. How is that these this is felt by the democrats to be so ‘representative’ of America that these urban demographics should dictate our government to the rest of us?
≥ = greater than
Such a measly, creepy, big-eared Marxist, like usual.
These guys are seriously a threat to the nation and more importantly to the constitution.
Please, stop calling Obama a ‘Constitutional Law Professor’. He taught critial race theory which is a subset of Cultural Marxism/Critical Theory. It was an elective that people took for an easy A. It was not a core class nor was it even competitive.
"I am among those who think well of the human character generally. I consider man as formed for society and endowed by nature with those dispositions which fit him for society." --Thomas Jefferson to William Green Munford, 1799.Perhaps Jefferson's brilliant mind and ability to understand that ideas have consequences enabled him to foresee a time when a departure from principle and what Washington called the "Spirit of Party" would produce a power couple like the Clintons, as he observed:"Everyone, by his property or by his satisfactory situation, is interested in the support of law and order. And such men may safely and advantageously reserve to themselves a wholesome control over their public affairs and a degree of freedom which, in the hands of the canaille of the cities of Europe, would be instantly perverted to the demolition and destruction of everything public and private." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:401
"Every man being at his ease feels an interest in the preservation of order and comes forth to preserve it at the first call of the magistrate." --Thomas Jefferson to M. Pictet, 1803. ME 10:356
"The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:230
"To the sincere spirit of republicanism are naturally associated the love of country, devotion to its liberty, its right and its honor." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Virginia Legislature, 1809. ME 16:333
"[It is the people's] conviction that a solid Union is the best rock of their safety." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1791. ME 8:197
"The cement of this Union is in the heart-blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1815. ME 14:252
"Possessed of the blessing of self-government and of such a portion of civil liberty as no other civilized nation enjoys, it now behooves us to guard and preserve them by a continuance of the sacrifices and exertions by which they were acquired, and especially to nourish that Union which is their sole guarantee." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to New London Plymouth Society, 1809. ME 16:360
"Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust." --Thomas Jefferson to M. van der Kemp, 1812. ME 13:136
"No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:71
Did he say the same about the US Senate? The additional influence the EC gives to smaller states is strictly because each state has two senators and the number of EC electors each state has is the number of House members plus the two senators.
i agree we should select presidents by either number of counties they carry or total area who voted for them. /s
Why don’t we just take the “electors” out of it and just give the winner of the state the electoral votes? Still works.
In 34 more days, the Kenyan will be “outdated”. Finally, the end of the Obama error.
Every time the commie libs get their asses handed to them, they always start whining about the GOP needing to “play nice” and give them everything and anything THEY want. I’m hoping that, since Trump is not a politicians, he tells them to kiss his Red, White and Blue ass and treats them the way they treat the GOP. Screw the DemocRATS.
Enemy islamist....
“A former constitutional law professor...”
Would love to read his published, scholarly works. Anyone know where they can be found?
What an amazingly clueless statement. Yeah, its kind of in the name, Mr. President - it's called the United STATES. The nation is formed by individual states forming together in a union. Those states are not subunits of a national entity - they could join together and abolish the federal government if they so chose to do so - the national government could never do this to the states.
He is a bit consistent, however...later in the article he also questions allowing each state to have two U.S. Senators no matter the population. Clearly, he just exposes again he does not value what makes America what it is...yet he was the was President for 8 years.
Yes, he did, actually.
Good question.
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