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The electoral college is a failure. The Founding Fathers would probably agree (Mega Barf Alert)
Washington Compost ^ | April 8, 2019 | Joshua Spivak

Posted on 04/08/2019 3:09:25 PM PDT by EdnaMode

As the presidential campaign heats up, so too has the movement to abolish or otherwise neutralize the electoral college.

Some advocates argue that the electoral college was originally established to help less-populated states retain power, or to have every part of the country heard from in electing a chief executive. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) claims the system was designed to help the slave states.

But these are modern interpretations of what really happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The electoral college was designed with two purposes: to separate the branches of government in an attempt to avoid “cabals” and to prevent foreign corruption. Some of the Founding Fathers assumed it would almost never actually elect a president. In other words, we could say the electoral college failed to achieve most of what the founders designed it to do.

The electoral college was not a replacement for direct election — because that possibility never received serious consideration at the convention. (Only two of 11 states voted for a popular election of the president.) As James Madison’s notes make clear, there was very little support for a popular election of the president. The original idea in his influential Virginia Plan was that the new bicameral legislature — Congress — would itself gather to elect the executive, and the convention repeatedly returned to that idea.

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To: dhs12345

i think who these idiot left thinks of as “founding fathers” are Mao, Lenin, Hitler and Stalin..


21 posted on 04/08/2019 3:26:06 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards at our company for the past 12 yrs at every election. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: EdnaMode
Piece o’ cake.Thirty eight state legislatures would approve a Constitutional Amendment in a jiffy!
22 posted on 04/08/2019 3:27:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: EdnaMode

The WP is pure deep state. They will say anything to rig election in their favor.


23 posted on 04/08/2019 3:27:04 PM PDT by Revel
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To: EdnaMode

The author is a white male....and, therefore, only speaks from privilege and should be ignored and banished (liberal rules).

24 posted on 04/08/2019 3:29:47 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: EdnaMode

That’s the largest pile of steaming bullshit I’ve ever read.


25 posted on 04/08/2019 3:31:35 PM PDT by FrankR (Did I mention that NO Russian collusion was found...NONE....?)
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To: EdnaMode

The founding fathers would agree that your education has been a failure, Joshua.

The Electoral College works as it should.


26 posted on 04/08/2019 3:32:01 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: EdnaMode

Abolish the electoral college... and replace it with election by state legislatures.

Anything, including selection by random lottery, would be preferable than a direct popular vote for President.


27 posted on 04/08/2019 3:34:46 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: EdnaMode

The founding fathers would surely agree that a couple of dozen of you traitors should be lined up and shot against a wall. Other than that, not so much.


28 posted on 04/08/2019 3:34:48 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Haha, good point!


29 posted on 04/08/2019 3:35:00 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I’m pretty sure the electoral college functioned exactly as intended.


30 posted on 04/08/2019 3:35:47 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

I think it was a fantastic success...


31 posted on 04/08/2019 3:35:58 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: EdnaMode

Its a failure because you lose and thats it!


32 posted on 04/08/2019 3:39:40 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: EdnaMode

JEFFERSON ON CITIES & NEED FOR ELECTORAL COLLEGE TO
OFFSET THE INSANITY & LIBERALISM OF THE CITIES!
As Ambassador to France, he witnessed to events (largely justified due to the behavior of the royals) leading to the bloody French Revolution. The Electoral College may have been an effort to avoid the disenfranchisement of rural America and to balance it against the masses in the cities.
6 MINUTE VIDEO
https://www.brighteon.com/5841966834001


33 posted on 04/08/2019 3:42:12 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: EdnaMode

The founding fathers wanted the electors to make up their own minds about who should be president, they would have thought that the concept of a faithless elector was nonsense.


34 posted on 04/08/2019 3:43:37 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: EdnaMode

45 states will never see a candidate if the electoral college is abolished. But the east and west coast “elite” think that would be just fine.


35 posted on 04/08/2019 3:44:07 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: EdnaMode

36 posted on 04/08/2019 3:45:00 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Valk Rider

They will be no United States in 2020 then either.


37 posted on 04/08/2019 3:45:30 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: EdnaMode

Electoral college is working exactly as planned.


38 posted on 04/08/2019 3:46:17 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Midwesterner53
But the east and west coast “elite” think that would be just fine.

That they do. This sort of class warfare is as old as civilization, urbanites convinced that they're smarter because they live in a city and have the right to rule because they're smarter. They don't call us "deplorables" for nothing.

39 posted on 04/08/2019 3:47:18 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: EdnaMode

The electoral college is a resounding success! If it is every done away with, I would do all I can to get the small states to leave the union.

JoMa


40 posted on 04/08/2019 3:48:07 PM PDT by joma89
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