Posted on 11/18/2020 7:50:14 AM PST by bitt
The Washington Post editorial board called over the weekend for the Electoral College to be abolished just days after media outlets projected Joe Biden to be the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Biden is expected to earn 306 electoral votes after all the results are certified, the same number of electoral votes President Trump received in 2016.
Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen pointed out last week that "a flip of just some 73,700 votes" in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia would have handed President Trump a second term, but the board drew a "different conclusion" in a piece published on Sunday.
"It is alarming that a candidate came so close to winning while polling more than 5 million fewer votes than his opponent nationwide," it declared. "The electoral college, whatever virtues it may have had for the Founding Fathers, is no longer tenable for American democracy."
The piece accused states with smaller populations of having "disproportionate clout in our government" due to the structure of the Senate. The paper then called on elections to be nationalized instead of leaving states to impose their various standards.
"We believe that Mr. Trump’s election was a sad event for the nation; his reelection would have been a calamity; we hope Mr. Thiessen is wrong about 2024," it said. "But we would be making this argument no matter which party seemed likely to benefit.
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Nice little pack of tyrants.
I call for the abolishment of the Washington Post.
WaPo ignores (or maybe doesn’t know?) that there is not an “American democracy” — there is an American republic.
A federation of 50 distinct sovereign entities.
If that is to change, then the Union should be dissolved.
Liberal CIRCLE JERK at the WAPO.
Why should the folks who FEED and POWER the nation have an equal say.
SHEESH.
It will happen in this decade.
Before or after Civil War II ?
Of course they want that.
The US should be ruled from Washington, DC according to the whims of the Northeast Megaplex (NYC, Newark, Boston, etc), Chicago, LA, and a few other urban areas.
NOT.
The Electoral College was total genius. It should be extended to the several states, if possible.
I second that motion.
The Electoral College stands in the way of the Washington Post’s desire for the imposition of globalist socialism on the American people. That’s what bothers them so much.
The Biden steal is making them bold
It’s simply amazing the number of idjits that despise the constitution and work to undermine this country on a daily basis.
How about this.... just get the h3ll out of my country since all you desire to do is create chaos and division.
The more powerful the federal government becomes, the more critical it is to keep the electoral college.
Pravda at its best
“But we would be making this argument no matter which party seemed likely to benefit.
Ya, suurre.
Biden’s Gang will Suspend the Constitution and make a new one where a Democrat President can change it at will
This is not surprising, given that the Washington Post leans toward communism. They have been unAmerican for decades.
Just pure stupidity and ignorance. This is a nation formed out of a Union of separate states. It's called the United States. It's in the very name. The President is President of the United States. The President of the United States is elected by *the United States*. It's in the very name, and they don't get it.
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