Posted on 12/25/2017 3:21:07 PM PST by MarvinStinson
I am sure there are other states like this.
Getting approval from 38 state legislatures shouldn't be a problem!
Already happening with legal ones in FLA. Big exodus from Puerto Rico to FLA.
Those state bills are about distributing votes, not the disenfranchisement of most of the states. This is about amending the US Constitution, not, say, prohibiting the sale of liquor.
“Getting rid of the electoral college” would mean amending the Constitution, which would require a 2/3 in favor vote in both houses of Congress.
If the `rats were able to get those numbers, perhaps with help from their quisling GOP-e friends, and amend the Constitution from the electoral college to popular vote, at least thirty states would soon secede from the union. It would be as predictable as an eclipse.
Once the people of those states realized they had been effectively disenfranchised: placed in a position of having to pay taxes but receiving no representation in our national government, they would rebel. We’ve been here before. Twice.
“The Associated Press finds that Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump.”
Clinton won 58 counties in Texas and Georgia alone. In Texas there are 254 counties.
clinton won the popular vote by 2868518 votes.
here’s a decent place for vote totals.
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/
note the old time coloring - Repubs = blue, RATs = red
Best response on the thread.
Clinton won a plurality by about 3 million illegal aliens over Trump.
The National Popular Vote is meant to circumvent the Constitution and the Electoral College. They effectively disenfranchise voters in a particular state by allocating the electoral votes based on state compacts and the popular vote totals. It has been moving forward without much public attention. They are doing it so that no Constitutional amendment is necessary.
Denial just ain’t a river in Egypt.
Possibly, but mere speculation at this point.
Thanks for the kind words. It happens that this is a topic that previously I’d spent a good bit of time thinking about and researching.
If the US had a popular vote, we would become The Hunger Games, with the big city elites determining the winner every election.
Democrats would have a real tough time if electoral votes were determined by county and not state. Trump would have won the election in a landslide.
Except that the electoral college is based at the state level, never at the county level. I am unable to think of any statewide or national election that is broken down by winning a County. Doing so would unfairly dilute the vote of unban dwellers and shift the power to the rural area voters. Doesn’t seem to be very fair to me.
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In the early days of this Republic, political parties were not well established. The probability of three or more strong regional candidates for the Presidency causing none to achieve a majority of the popular vote was easy to foresee. The Electoral College was instituted to deliberate and pick a president. It has worked well. Not only did it solve those early problems; it also saved us from HRC.
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