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Our democracy’s greatest threat isn’t Trump — it’s the Electoral College
The Hill ^ | 03/07/2023 | PAUL GOLDMAN AND MARK J. ROZELL

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bs; college; electoral; markjrozell; paulgoldman; threat; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The way most states award electors is a threat to democracy. The winner take all system disenfranchises a large part of the population. Electors should be allotted by the results in each Congressional district.


21 posted on 03/07/2023 7:22:28 AM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If they despise our government’s founding and controlling Document so much, they are welcome to leave.


22 posted on 03/07/2023 7:23:52 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why in the hell would we reward states who allow uncontrolled immigration of unnaturalized illegal aliens with the ability to choose the President over all citizens?


23 posted on 03/07/2023 7:24:26 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Gunslingr3
This formula got scratched out using a quill pen in 1787.

More wisdom was scratched out with a quill pen in 1787 than ever came from the keyboards of modern morons such as these folks.

It's a generous thing to call them ignorant morons - the only other term for people espousing such a change is 'traitor'.
24 posted on 03/07/2023 7:24:58 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Why does anyone read the (s)Hill any more?

It is just the print version of the Lincoln Project.

25 posted on 03/07/2023 7:25:34 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (DemonRatz to Biden: You've outlived your uselessness. Buh-Bye!)
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To: bk1000
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.

When I hear it, I picture a mob of entitled, money-grubbing parasites.

26 posted on 03/07/2023 7:25:41 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is why they created the Electoral College in the first place. The Founding Fathers knew they didn't want the urban areas to dominate national elections.
27 posted on 03/07/2023 7:26:10 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“danger to our democracy”

We don’t have a democracy, so there is no danger.


28 posted on 03/07/2023 7:26:34 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Aevery_Freeman
Why does anyone read the (s)Hill any more?

I think their readership plummeted sharply when they shut off the comments section, which contained excellent reader commentary, including corrections, on the articles in question.

29 posted on 03/07/2023 7:27:17 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“They’re actually communists.”

No, Communism requires recipients to help themselves to the extent they can.

“Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen”

RINOs are often communists. Many leading Democrats are just vote-buying scumbags.


30 posted on 03/07/2023 7:29:46 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BARF ALERT! needed in Aisle 1!


31 posted on 03/07/2023 7:29:46 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

<< A simplistic 18th century math formula, not the latest complex Big Tech algorithm >>

Our The wisdom of the Fathers vs. algorithms programed by leftist techies. Gee, that’s a tough one. These pricks undoubtedly think the Bill of Rights is archaic and racist and needs to be updated (or eliminated) as well.


32 posted on 03/07/2023 7:31:08 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No.


33 posted on 03/07/2023 7:35:37 AM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Our democracy ...

Democracy? We are a constitutional Republic. If you believe the electoral college is not democratic, the same argument applies to our election of Senators; i.e., disproportionate power where low population states hold equal power to high population states. If you want 1 man 1 vote for all things, eliminate the concept of states and make all laws require passage by referendum vote by voters where a simple majority of voters make law.

"If you want to know the problem with democracy, have a 5 minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

34 posted on 03/07/2023 7:35:48 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!


35 posted on 03/07/2023 7:36:11 AM PST by bantam
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We have a Republic, which the electoral College protects. Further more, our Republic is a federation of 50 individual sovereign entities.

This wise arrangement was a gift to posterity from our forefathers who were unquestionably better and brighter than anyone in public life today.


36 posted on 03/07/2023 7:37:16 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Nifster

“The electoral college is pure genius”
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Truer words have never been spoken!!


37 posted on 03/07/2023 7:37:19 AM PST by bantam
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill is propaganda for dullards.


38 posted on 03/07/2023 7:37:29 AM PST by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats have nothing to fear, not since cheat-by-mail-in ballots came into being.


39 posted on 03/07/2023 7:37:36 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...isn’t Trump...”

__________

No ——, shylock.


40 posted on 03/07/2023 7:41:33 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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