Posted on 09/18/2020 2:12:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Let’s squarely face an ugly possibility: President Trump could get elected a second time without winning the popular vote. Indeed, according to most experts, that’s the only way he could be re-elected.
This would surely prompt another chorus of calls to scrap the Electoral College. I think that would be a mistake.
I say that even as I acknowledge that Trump has undermined the Electoral College’s legitimacy—not because he owes his election to it, but because of how he has behaved since taking office.
One of the Electoral College’s purposes is to broaden the president’s mandate and agenda by forcing candidates to appeal to different parts of the country and not just rack up votes in one region or a handful of states. But previous presidents who didn’t win the popular vote made a point of reaching out, once in office, beyond the coalition that elected them and at least pretending to lead the whole country.
Trump went a different way, effectively putting his thumb in the eye of the majority that didn’t vote for him.
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Although I always find this a fun, interesting topic, it could never find 38 states to ratify it. I can always find at least 13 states to block it. Let’s go back to the time when we always said, “These United States...” and not “The United States”. A bad after-effect that came out of the Civil War. That and the gradual weakening of the Tenth Amendment into jello pudding....
Jonah Goldberg just can’t get his head out of his posterior.
They didn’t need that to get rid of the natural born citizen requirement, just the cooperation of the GOP.
They later exchanged that support for an Ineptocracy, (in-ep-toc’ra-cy) which is a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
The electoral college proved its worth by preventing states like California and New York from stealing the election with voter fraud.
Jonah Goldberg
http://articlevblog.com/2016/07/donald-trump-the-echo-of-our-framers-uncorrupted-president/
Hillary Clinton wan the popular vote , but how much of that can be attributed to California alone?
...and if the election is a toss-up do we have to recount the entire country?
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