The author is a white male....and, therefore, only speaks from privilege and should be ignored and banished (liberal rules).
Heck no. The founding fathers were smart and included an additional check in the process. They knew the crooked nature of humans and people cannot be trusted.
Dear Joshua Spivak:
You are an idiot.
Call me and I will be happy to give you an education.
$100 an hour.
Luv.
5.56mm
The electoral college is working as designed brilliantly by the founders.
Now if we had only stuck with natural born citizen........
This is revisionist history. They need to find an excuse to change it...this is the next piece of excrement thrown out there.
The Electoral College is what keeps us a Republic. Without it I think the US will fracture into a few different nations. And that would not be good for our future.
naaahh...its just that most Dems have flunked out of it
He gives the clearest reflection of why they did created the Electoral College...and it was applicable particularly to the Obama Elections.
i.e., when the have nots outnumber the haves.
Obama actually beat out the intention of the Electoral College by selecting "districts" to produce the numbers to grab the electoral votes in particular states.
Ex. Ca & NYS didn't have to do much. Pennsylvania, Florida...etc etc...
Anything that helped prevent Hillary Rotten Clintoon from becoming president was hardly a mistake!
The democrat party is a criminal organization.
What a bunch of uneducated nonsense. Not only does the Electoral College work as designed, but the Founders would be appalled at the 16th and 17th Amendments!
One gave the Federal Government practically unlimited power and the other removed a key check on the Federal Government, the control the individual states had over the Senate to protect the interests of the Individual States.
Our Founders knew exactly what a dictator was. They had read ancient history. They studied all the Roman dictators. They knew what makes a dictator, and they did everything they could to prevent a dictator from becoming president of the United States.
The electoral college is one of those secret ingredients that probably didn't seem like a big deal at first, but without it we would have the most evil woman to have ever lived in the entire history of mankind as president.
The Electoral College is a HUGE success. It kept an evil witch Hillary Clinton from stealing the Presidency! We need to keep it in order to prevent a new witch Ocasio-Cortez from destroying our country if she gets idiots to vote for her in future presidential elections.
The electoral college proved its worth by preventing states like California from stealing the elections with illegal votes.
This country is not a democracy and never was. It is a republic of states. Unfortunately, ever since FDR, the power of the state has been diminished and we’ve become a federalized society. All problems that should be handled by the states are now turned into a federal issue. We all need to repeat - we are not a democracy and were never intended to be.
The only upside of this chicanery where states pass laws to “honor the national popular vote” is that once NY and California alone drive every election they will move to ruin america at warp speed and the states can at least change that law to “award all electoral votes to the candidate that won the state of Alabama” to put a stop to it.
The WP is pure deep state. They will say anything to rig election in their favor.
The author is a white male....and, therefore, only speaks from privilege and should be ignored and banished (liberal rules).
That’s the largest pile of steaming bullshit I’ve ever read.
The founding fathers would agree that your education has been a failure, Joshua.
The Electoral College works as it should.