If New York, Chicago Illinois, and Southern California, should secede and union together, forever in poverty and desolation., because that’s what they deserve.
Because we don’t want a few Million Illegal Invaders living in CA choosing our next President?
The electoral college is a weighted popular vote. Each state has a popular vote. The states’ votes are then weighted by their representation in Congress, which broadly reflects their populations.
Simple. So that the big states and large cities do not make all the rules and elect everyone over the rest of the smaller states and less populated areas. Our votes should count also.
All one has to do is look at disillusioned areas of states like Maryland which threaten to secede. We have no electoral system, so the “rural” (non-city) areas basically get screwed every time. And they get sick of it and want to leave.
Electoral college helps create a sense of fairness and consequent unity.
WHY ARE YOU TYPING IN ALL CAPS?
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.”
Actually, four counties in New York City. Trump won Staten Island.
Actually, four counties in New York City. Trump won Staten Island.
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!
Why is the electoral college important? Two words. Donald Trump.
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 am sure there are other states like this.
Getting approval from 38 state legislatures shouldn't be a problem!
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
If the US had a popular vote, we would become The Hunger Games, with the big city elites determining the winner every election.
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.