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.
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.
I’m pretty sure the electoral college functioned exactly as intended.
Its a failure because you lose and thats it!
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
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.
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.
Electoral college is working exactly as planned.
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
I had heard before that ALL of the popular vote difference was from California. Indeed, I looked this up yesterday to verify it for myself. Sure enough, if you subtract out Trump and Clinton votes from California, Trump wins the popular vote in the remaining 49 states.
Not that I agree with this person’s interpretation of the Founder’s intent, but it’s quite amusing how the Founding Fathers are a bunch of worthless, dead, racist, irrelevant white guys until the Left wants to use them to act like they give a crap about this country’s political traditions and history.
In ‘92 when Clinton won with less than 50% of the popular vote the Ministry of Truth blathered on and on about how wonderful the Electoral College was because “it magnified and legitimized his victory”.
Yeah this whole electoral college thing cracks me up. You notice they are not trying to float a new constitutional amendment. Because they know they can’t win. This country is going to have to have a schism. 2 separate countries Or a civil war is going to be needed to reset the constitution to where it was right after the last civil war.
Fine. It’s a failure.
As soon as you get 2/3 of each House of Congress and 38 State Legislatures to agree, you can get rid of it.
For Democrats, the electoral college is only a failure when they lose. If they win via the electoral college then they claim it’s a masterpiece created by our founding fathers.
Wapo idiot quotes super idiot Steve Cohen. Great.
Back when I was in HS, when we studied Civics, we were taught the reasoning behind the Electoral College. Rural areas feared getting exploited by urban areas. The Electoral College was established so that rural areas would not lose their voice in choosing a President. Logically, if the Electoral College is ever abolished, it should follow that the nation splits into individual states.
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BS, our founding fathers took precautions to prevent mob rule by the larger colonies.
The smaller colonies would never have joined without those precautions.
So it would make great since, be totally logical, if the smaller states, the red states, told the union to F off if they tried to implement mob rule today.
So lefty, put this where the sun does not shine and spin on it.
