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 The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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.
OK ,you win a state you get one point and the most points wins
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!
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
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.
She has that noted in the full article.
This is all fluff and no stuff.
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 !!!!
That’s 38 states, I think. They will never get it.
Pure theater.......................
Boxer is not clueless, she is simply shameless. She will trample the constitution in a NY minute if it helps democRats increase their power.
>>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.
I thought she was long gone. Too bad. Diane Feinstein and Pelosi are in the same category. Term limits. Dang.
Probably never get through committee.
5.56mm
Leftists LOVED the electoral college when THEY won..now they hate it since they LOST
Let’s just bypass the Constitution.
TERM LIMITS!!
These animals take an OATH to uphold the Constitution, break it, and nothing happens to them.
THAT is what needs to change.
Holding tight to her well-earned title of Our Dumbest Senator all the way till her retirement in January.
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.
Someone needs to explain what “United States” means to a Senator.
Just d-mn!
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