Posted on 12/25/2017 3:21:07 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Barack Hussein Obama, II won 365 and then 332 Electoral votes. William Jefferson Clinton won 370 and then 379 Electoral votes.
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.”
I was thinking something like one vote per county (county wide winner gets county vote). THAT would make things more amusing indeed. Hitlery would have been utterly crushed.
Cut off welfare to illegals and they will fly away home.
Actually, four counties in New York City. Trump won Staten Island.
Actually, four counties in New York City. Trump won Staten Island.
And Democrats are the only ones who try to stop clean elections. Things that make you go ...hmmm.
Four of the first six. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe were Virginians, but the two Adamses were from Massachusetts.
Many of the aspects of the founding, rebinding and now, rebuilding, of our nation have to be Divinely inspired and motivated. The Electoral College is simply one of many examples!
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Explanation It has been enacted into law in 11 states with 165 electoral votes (CA, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA). This interstate compact will take effect when enacted by states with 105 more electoral votes. It has passed at least one house in 12 additional states with 96 electoral votes (AR, AZ, CO, CT, DE, ME, MI, NC, NM, NV, OK, OR) and been approved unanimously by committee votes in two additional states with 27 electoral votes (GA, MO). Most recently, the bill was passed by a 40–16 vote in the Republican-controlled Arizona House, 28–18 in Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate, 57–4 in Republican-controlled New York Senate, 37–21 in Democratic-controlled Oregon House, and 26-16 in the New Mexico Senate.
Maine and Nebraska assign electors by Congressional districts (with the two others going to the statewide winner.) I believe that Trump got one elector from Maine.
There are basically three ways to do it:
The at-large system, which most states use;
The district system, which Maine and Nebraska use; and
The proportional system, which at this point no state uses.
Since 1990 35 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS have been admitted to the US. They are not going home and they are future voters after being naturalized. In addition, 300,000 American born children of illegal aliens are added to our population annually. They are US citizens at birth. If we continue importing 1.1 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS A YEAR, it won’t matter if we stop all illegal aliens from entering the country. Immigrants and their US born children account for 80% of our population growth.
I have been concerned with the post 1965 radical changes in our immigration both legal and illegal and I am glad that President Trump is not afraid to address this issue.
Why is the electoral college important? Two words. Donald Trump.
This is the problem with "one person, one vote." The Warren Court, in Reynolds v. Sims (1964), required all State and local government to apportion their legislatures strictly based on population. This gives the urban areas within each State dominance in each State government. The Warren Court either failed to understand, or didn't care, that we are a republic rather than a democracy.
Thank God and our Founding Fathers for having the wisdom to create the Electoral College.
Otherwise, only a handful of states with densely populated urban hubs would rule the day.
BTW, I am in one of the Northern Baltimore suburban counties (Harford) and am proud to say President Trump carried my country by about a 2 to 1 margin.
Praying that Maryland will wake up and deliver our ten EV to reelect President Trump in 2020!!
The topic of the electoral college was covered at considerable length in a thread a year ago about the NY Times claim that it was devised to protect slavery (actually most of the support for representation based solely on population came from the slave states).
> “Without the Electoral College, the rest of the country has no reason to remain in the Union.” [papertyger]
Yes, in the previous thread I pointed out that at the time the Constitution was being considered, people in the smaller states would not have willingly given up their right to self determination and placed their trust (and their fate) in large populations in distant places. (They’d just finished fighting the American Revolution to end that.) The Constitution wouldn’t have been ratified without the Connecticut Compromise, which combined the large-state supported House — based on population — and the small-state supported Senate (with equal representation for each state). The electoral college reflects that compromise.
Amen..Save the electoral college...
I won’t repost all I wrote in that thread, and specifically about the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan (actually, Nip, the controversy wasn’t urban versus rural but big state versus small state, with Virginia favoring representation based solely on population). Instead I’ll add links to the thread for anyone who’s interested.
General: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3507564/posts?page=42#42
Historical origin: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3507564/posts?page=42#44
More about historical origin: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3507564/posts?q=1&;page=51#51
Is it fair? (Yes): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3507564/posts?q=1&;page=51#67
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