Posted on 11/13/2016 12:05:45 PM PST by mdittmar
If anything, we should duplicate Maine and Nebraska’s method. That way vote fraud at one location could only affect 3 electoral votes instead of all the EVs of the state or even the entire country’s winning popular vote.
These pinheads operate on the assumption that if the electoral college had been abolished, Hillary would have won. But even if her popular vote lead does stand up, it’s irrelevant from the standpoint that had the election been set up so that popular vote was the deciding factor, both camps would have run a different campaign.
Most folks now see that Trump ran the smarter campaign - it’s not a lucky accident that he took Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - that was something they strategized, and that’s one of several cases where the donkeycrats were asleep at the switch. Were the rules different, the Trump strategy would’ve been different - and if they pantsed Hillary and her minions under the present rules, there’s a good chance they could’ve done so under different ground rules as well.
The only reason to attack the “popular vote” meme is to remove it as a talking point for the stupids. The fact is Trump did win both democracy and republic vote. The Absentee and out of country cast votes alone ensures this with its historical 65%/35% split. However, such are not counted unless its a close election.
The problem is the useful idiots think America is a democracy and were not taught its a republic. Its necessary to remove this emotional based argument from the stupids to avoid future problems.
No.
It is simple: If we have no Electoral College, then we are no longer a Republic.
No, but if states want to go to the district system, they can and should. (It’s the system used n Maine and Nebraska.) It would just make the EC even more GOP.
I remember Hillary saying the same of Gore in 2000.
I remember Hillary saying the same of Gore in 2000.
No. The Electoral College was instituted by the Founders (talk about some smart guys!) so that the large states would not become tyrannical towards the small states.
No, because all states should be involved in the election...really do you think Iowa would be visited if there wasn’t an Electoral College? Des Moines is the largest city...and I think it has about 250,000 citizens. I might be wrong about the population.
+1
Nooooooo...it should NOT be abolished.
Besides, getting it done will be damned near impossible.
Smaller states aren’t going to agree, nor should they.
We’re the United STATES of America, not the United People.
It’s hard enough to keep corruption at bay now, a popular vote would be corrupt out of the gate.
It’s a population map. It just shows where the population concentrations are, not the political affiliation.
You can't get a more creditable source than CNN. ;O)
NO!
It means that a cheating vote anywhere affects the total.
California could have had 150% of the total registered voters registered as voting for Hillary and it wouldn’t have changed the outcome. Eliminate the electoral college and all the sudden all that cheating in blue states really starts to matter.
No. The popular vote is based on all kinds of stupidity.
Fact: Hillary Clinton was a proven (though uncharged) criminal with dozens of felonies obvious to anyone with a brain.
Fact: That fact was never once directly stated — or even wondered — by mainstream media (except for Sean Hannity).
Fact: Trump voters were bright enough to seek out original info AGAINST CONVENTIONAL WISDOM and despite being called racists, and were able to discern fact #1.
Look at a map of how states voted this election. We can’t decide our President based on ignorance and propaganda.
No doubt about it. I noticed that several states split their electoral votes. If more states did that there would be a lot more Republicans in office. Of course I don't know if that's a good thing after this election cycle except it keeps the kooks out.
“...never happen...Not worth discussion...”
Agreed!!
No.
No.
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