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Barbara Boxer Introduces Bill to End Electoral College (Dream on Losers)
Townhall.com ^ | November 15, 2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 11/15/2016 1:22:46 PM PST by Kaslin

After Donald Trump won despite losing the popular vote count, liberals everywhere were (once again) demanding an end to the electoral college. Most of it was all talk. After all, how can we possibly change a system that has worked for over 200 years? 

Well, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has taken the next step: She is introducing a bill to put an end to the electoral college once and for all.

"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," said Senator Boxer on her Senate website. "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama. This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency. The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."

While Trump tweeted in 2012 that the electoral college system is a "disaster," he said on Monday that the system, put in place by our Founding Fathers, is fair because it compels presidential candidates to visit smaller states that would otherwise be ignored.

Boxer is expected to put forward her legislation as the Senate convenes on Tuesday.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; barbaraboxer; electoralcollege; trumptransition
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To: Kaslin

Communist dork that wants one party, urban tyranny.

Go away you feckless, hateful weirdo.


101 posted on 11/15/2016 3:21:59 PM PST by ecomcon
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To: Kaslin

A 2-watt bulb in a 60-watt world.


102 posted on 11/15/2016 3:22:06 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kaslin

Barbara Boxer Shorts has been hit in the head too many times to understand reality. I’ll sum it up in a few simple words, so simple that even a simpleton like her can understand them.

“YOU LOST YOU STUPID MARXIST BITCH. NOW SHUT UP AND CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR CESSPOOL”.

As Bill O’Reilly would say, I’m just a simple man and speak in simple words.


103 posted on 11/15/2016 3:32:34 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

Barbara, you ignorant slut.


104 posted on 11/15/2016 3:39:41 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Kaslin

Dear Babs:

I’ll paraphrase your Dear Leader for you: We won. You lost.

Deal with it, twit. Have a great next four years.


105 posted on 11/15/2016 3:46:40 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Nice post


106 posted on 11/15/2016 3:53:24 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Kaslin
So the snowflakes want to ignore states rights.

Does that mean they are OK with the elected political party to start enforcing Federal Marijuana laws?

107 posted on 11/15/2016 4:15:48 PM PST by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Kaslin
Ah hates Barbara Boxer!
108 posted on 11/15/2016 5:28:00 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Kaslin
"In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," said Senator Boxer on her Senate website

And in your lifetime you have never seen a Presidential candidate that ran trying to win the "popular vote", which doesn't actually exist. Hillary wasn't trying to win the "popular vote", either. She was trying to win the election...and failed.

109 posted on 11/15/2016 5:29:31 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: CarolAnn

Yes - each state, no matter how big or small, is equal in voice in ratifying or rejecting an amendment. She should be asked to explain if she agrees with that as well - and while she’s at it, why she would agree to serve in such an “undemocratic” institution as the U.S. Senate all of these years, in which each state has equal representation regardless of their size.


110 posted on 11/15/2016 5:33:23 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t it take a constitutional amendment, not just a law passed by congress?
.................
Don’t tell Babs, she’ll find out eventually.


111 posted on 11/15/2016 6:26:30 PM PST by barker (Ryan is the snake Trump warned us about.)
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To: Kaslin

I forgot about Babs. I thought she had croaked.


112 posted on 11/15/2016 6:41:09 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Kaslin

“...Uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic”. She’s not well.


113 posted on 11/15/2016 6:50:34 PM PST by vortec94
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To: Kaslin

Don’t any of these democrats realize that if there wasn’t an electoral college, that Trump’s election strategy would have changed, and that he would have won anyway?
You can’t change the rules after you lose.


114 posted on 11/15/2016 7:08:14 PM PST by spduzan
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To: Kaslin

How about voter photo ID, annual voter roll purges, paper ballots, purple thumbprints and two parties counting, for a start? Babs? Ensure clean votes first. Babs?


115 posted on 11/15/2016 8:09:43 PM PST by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: DRey

It will take 2/3 vote from both House and Senate then 38 of 50 States would have OK it. She knows its not going to happen just words and nothing else. She knows her people will believe her. Question is when will they get smart enough to know she is a JOKE!


116 posted on 11/16/2016 8:37:34 AM PST by ducks1944 (GOD Bless the USA .)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Thanks. Noticed that after I posted.


117 posted on 11/16/2016 10:31:14 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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