This is the guy who was running guns to the cartel.
If we abolish the electoral college, 5 cities will rule the nation.
A representative republic and a democracy are two altogether dissimilar ideas.
The idea of the electoral college was designed so as NOT to let the “popular vote” control elections. In theory, it is up to the state legislatures to appoint representatives to the electoral college, much as the original intent of the Constitution was to have the state legislatures appoint two Senators from each state, to represent the interests of each of the several States, as it was before the 17th Amendment was passed by the Progressives during the reign of Woodrow Wilson.
A “pure” democracy is not the panacea it is made out to be. It turns into a “mobocracy” within s very short period of time, with no recourse for the minority short of violent attacks on the majority.
Especially when the majority passes such restrictions on the minority so as to reduce them to a permanently subservient position. Dialogue does not occur spontaneously. Thugs do not seek the opinions or suggestions of their victims.
I think an important point, nobody is making, is that Hillary did not exactly “win the popular vote”, in that, she got about 47.5% of the vote. She did not get a majority of the vote. She got a plurality. Big difference, in my opinion, if you want to talk about electing someone via popular vote.
Al Gore also, while getting more popular votes than “W”, also got less than 50% of the vote.
If we did go to a popular vote for president, we should:
1. make sure we have the same standards, such as voter ID, same regulations on early voting, etc. everywhere.
2. make sure that we have a runoff, if the leading vote getter has less than 50% of the vote.
3. make sure that there are uniform standards for counting absentee ballots, mail ballots, provisional ballots. As of now, some places don’t even count absentee votes if there aren’t enough to make a difference in an election results. But if you have a national popular vote, you aren’t going to get an accurate number if you don’t standardize and federalize these processes.
The unsustaniables should never rule.