So Duke, how'd that work for ya?
"Dukakis For What?!"
So Duke, how'd that work for ya?
And look how well that worked out for those three stooges.
Typical Democrat, if you cannot win by the rules, change them or cheat, or both!
Mr. Dukakis is not only stupid, politically, but he is also cheap.
Wow. What a superb combo.
As soon as the President is elected by popular vote, and it may happen, this country is kaput. Done. Over.
Maybe Dukakis forgot, or maybe he never knew, but the states formed the Union, nor the other way around.
And the agreement to have a Senate with two from each state, and a House with representation from districts based on population, that agreement was necessary for the Union to be formed in the first place.
And, from that the Electoral College was formed with the same number of delegates as each state had Senators plus Representatives. So simple, and an arrangement that was necessary for the USA to come into existence.
So, while you’re at it Dukakis, start a campaign to also turn the Senate in representation based on population. Hardee har har.
““I think it is high time we got rid of the Electoral College and elected our presidents the way we elect every other elected official in the country - by a vote of the people,” Dukakis wrote in a letter e-mailed to state lawmakers yesterday. “The overwhelming majority of the American people do, too.””
I think that line of thinking should have died when they made Senators a direct vote instead of having the State Legislatures do it, like the founders set up. The founders knew what a runaway federal congress could do and set the Senate to be elected by State Legislatures so that the states would have a say in the federal government...a check against a tyrannical fed. Now the the states have lost that power, look what we have.
It would only be worse if this comes to pass.
If you know history you'd know that the ELECTORAL COLLEGE was put in because Connecticut wanted to make sure that small states would have a VOICE in the ELECTION!
Can you NOW STFU!!
The argument for popular vote is pervasive, but it entails removing one of the pervasively important balance of power checks inherent in the Constitution.
In other words, it is not a good idea.
I think this is the best idea I’ve heard in a long, long time. Since there is NO WAY a Constitutional Amendment would be passed to bring this about, it would require passage in the individual States. Since only the ‘Blue’ States have an issue with the EC, if only THEY switch to representative EC votes, and the ‘Red’ States stayed with ‘winner take all’, the Democrats would suck wind for a century, or more.
Good plan.
~faith.
or was we used to say, “What is a Dukakis?”
The electoral college is another protection method for our way of governing. It needs to stay. If you went totally by popular vote and communists took over you would be dead. Our present system would protect against that.
Mathematical proof of the legitimacy of the Electoral College.
Repeal the 17th Amendment instead. This ain’t a democracy.
Every time there is an election the Democrats call to end the electoral college.
"Dukakis For What?!"
I saw on that said:
MY DOG DUKAKISED
ON THE CARPET
We already do - in each of the 50 separate but equal states, numb nuts.
Great....then a handful of cities get to decide the ruler of the free world and thos eof us in smaller states will have no say in the matter......YAY!!!!!
"Under the current system, running for president means just one thing: focus on the so-called swing states," he wrote. "I did it. Al Gore did it. John Kerry did it, and our Republican opponents did it, too. A big turnout in Massachusetts and many other states is irrelevant to winning the election. Only winning the swing states matters."IOW, "campaigning in Massachusetts isn't necessary for Demwit candidates, and that's as it should be."
Got any respectable national poll results to back up that assertion, Mikey? Yeah, didn't think so.