Posted on 03/07/2023 7:10:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A simplistic 18th century math formula, not the latest complex Big Tech algorithm, is the greatest growing threat to our democracy. This formula got scratched out using a quill pen in 1787. Then it was used in 1789 to elect George Washington as our first president. This enduring presidential algo is found in Article II, Section I, of the U.S. Constitution.
The term “Electoral College” doesn’t appear there. But the basic math does. Each state has two senators. This equals two electoral votes, regardless of population. In addition, a state gets representatives in Congress based on population. Each representative equals one additional electoral vote. The District of Columbia is allocated three electors. The Electoral College majority next year will be 270.
In the two-party era, four presidential candidates finished second in the popular vote but won a majority of the electors and thus the White House: Republican Rutherford Hayes (1876), Republican Benjamin Harrison (1888), Republican George W. Bush (2000) and Republican Donald Trump (2016).
Yet these elections failed to sufficiently highlight the Electoral College’s danger to our democracy. We believe the 2020 presidential results should be a wake-up call.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
BS.
If the electoral college is eliminated we will be slaves forever. Until the nation falls.
I am not sure what they’re worried about. The largest cities plus MASSIVE voter fraud pretty much has neutered the Electoral College.
We aren’t a democracy - we’re a republic.
The authors are either ignorant, or ignoring, that the electoral college exists to protect our Republic union of States, and avoid its devolution into a democracy.
The greatest threat to democracy is, ironically, Democrats. They’re actually communists.
We are not a democracy! We are a republic with democratic principles.
The entire premise of the article is based in complete ignorance and would promote mob rule.
These people are blind fools eager to create a hellish tyranny.
There’s a process to change the Constitution, but it’s too difficult and probably impossible in this case, so they just bitch about it instead. Imagine trying to get 3/4s of the states to agree that California and NY should elect the President. There’s a lot of stupid people in this country, but not enough.
The $hitHill.
The electoral college is pure genius
Elimination of the Electoral College is a red line. But unfortunately, it is one the RINOs will ignore, and the sheeple will follow as long as they’re paid off with government freebies.
Without the Electoral College, America will fail.
We don’t have a democracy, we have a representative republic, because a true democracy is nothing more than mob rule.
Every time I read the phrase “our democracy” all I can think of is the woke communist takeover and fagotization of our relatively free country.
Our democracy’s greatest threat isn’t Trump - it’s the Electoral College
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Let’s remind every one that we do not have a “democracy” we have a Constitutional Republic. And this mistake makes the article Democrat propaganda.
The democrats figured out how to game the electoral college. And it doesn’t look like there’s going to be any remedy for it.
We are REPUBLIC and not a DEMOCRACY.
Democrats and low IQ voters
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