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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 The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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

OK ,you win a state you get one point and the most points wins


21 posted on 11/15/2016 1:29:39 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Kaslin

It’s hard not to sympathize with her.

After all, what’s the point of stuffing California with foreigners if their votes don’t help the Democrats win!


22 posted on 11/15/2016 1:30:23 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Kaslin

3/4 of the states ain’t gonna ratify that, she can go shove it.

only 13 states in midwest just have to say NO and it is a no-go


23 posted on 11/15/2016 1:30:54 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Kaslin

Uh hello, it’s going to take an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Is she THAT dense? I learned this stuff in 8th grade.


24 posted on 11/15/2016 1:31:03 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: Talisker; 2ndDivisionVet

She has that noted in the full article.

This is all fluff and no stuff.


25 posted on 11/15/2016 1:31:18 PM PST by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: All

W not Gore

Trump not Hillary

Grover Cleveland got a rest between terms

Rutherford Hayes not Tilden

Adams not Jackson, not my problem ... can’t win ‘em all.

Let’s say the record looks pretty good, Electoral College for the Win !!!!


26 posted on 11/15/2016 1:31:42 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Listen for my radio call-in program on channel A in your brain, yes caller ... I'm listening)
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To: Gamecock

That’s 38 states, I think. They will never get it.


27 posted on 11/15/2016 1:31:51 PM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: Kaslin

Pure theater.......................


28 posted on 11/15/2016 1:32:29 PM PST by Red Badger (In CHICAGO????...In Boston????....)
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To: Swede Girl

Boxer is not clueless, she is simply shameless. She will trample the constitution in a NY minute if it helps democRats increase their power.


29 posted on 11/15/2016 1:32:52 PM PST by entropy12 (Best Election ever!)
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To: Kaslin

>>This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency.

Because....UNITED.....STATES you ninny. A state is not a province or territory. The mob doesn’t select the leader of these 50 sovereign states.


30 posted on 11/15/2016 1:32:56 PM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Kaslin
Ah, that's going to require a Constitutional amendment to do it. Good luck trying to get 38 states to agree!
31 posted on 11/15/2016 1:33:11 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Gamecock

I thought she was long gone. Too bad. Diane Feinstein and Pelosi are in the same category. Term limits. Dang.


32 posted on 11/15/2016 1:33:30 PM PST by Bodega (elective, therapeutic abortion sequelae)
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To: Kaslin

Probably never get through committee.

5.56mm


33 posted on 11/15/2016 1:34:12 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Kaslin

Leftists LOVED the electoral college when THEY won..now they hate it since they LOST


34 posted on 11/15/2016 1:34:49 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Kaslin

Let’s just bypass the Constitution.

TERM LIMITS!!


35 posted on 11/15/2016 1:35:02 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Kaslin

These animals take an OATH to uphold the Constitution, break it, and nothing happens to them.

THAT is what needs to change.


36 posted on 11/15/2016 1:35:10 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Kaslin

Holding tight to her well-earned title of Our Dumbest Senator all the way till her retirement in January.


37 posted on 11/15/2016 1:35:28 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Kaslin

38 posted on 11/15/2016 1:35:29 PM PST by drpix
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To: DRey

Isn’t Boxer gone after Jan. 7, 2017 ???

I don’t believe she ran again..and yes TERM LIMITS ARE LONG OVER DUE.

By the way, she has a grandson who is fathered by Hillary Clinton’s crooked brother...but daughter divorced the loser.


39 posted on 11/15/2016 1:35:43 PM PST by haircutter (D)
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To: Kaslin

Someone needs to explain what “United States” means to a Senator.

Just d-mn!


40 posted on 11/15/2016 1:35:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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