"I'm posing with my hand like this so you'll know I'm smarter than you."
Posted on 11/25/2016 8:39:23 AM PST by dirtboy
Conventional wisdom tells us that the electoral college requires that the person who lost the popular vote this year must nonetheless become our president. That view is an insult to our framers. It is compelled by nothing in our Constitution. It should be rejected by anyone with any understanding of our democratic traditions — most important, the electors themselves.
The framers believed, as Alexander Hamilton put it, that “the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the [president].” But no nation had ever tried that idea before. So the framers created a safety valve on the people’s choice. Like a judge reviewing a jury verdict, where the people voted, the electoral college was intended to confirm — or not — the people’s choice. Electors were to apply, in Hamilton’s words, “a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice” — and then decide. The Constitution says nothing about “winner take all.” It says nothing to suggest that electors’ freedom should be constrained in any way. Instead, their wisdom — about whether to overrule “the people” or not — was to be free of political control yet guided by democratic values. They were to be citizens exercising judgment, not cogs turning a wheel.
Many think we should abolish the electoral college... What if the people elect a Manchurian candidate? Or a child rapist? What if evidence of massive fraud pervades a close election? It is a useful thing to have a body confirm the results of a democratic election — so long as that body exercises its power reflectively and conservatively. Rarely — if ever — should it veto the people’s choice. And if it does, it needs a very good reason.
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Great idea, WaPo!
Hillary would be the first female President “elected” by anarchy! AND she’d have an amazingly powerful “mandate” too being elected via anarchy, right WaPo?
BTW, as far as I can tell, given the string of alt-left nonsense coming out of WaPo in the last few days, WaPo must be on the verge of bankruptcy, because they’re now pretty much just publishing nothing but ridiculous clickbait in a desperate attempt at getting their hit counts up, and thereby increasing their digital advertising income by a few more micropennies each day
So what are these people even implying?
They act as if her getting a ton of votes in California, NYC, Chicago and Massachusetts should make a difference when she got fewer votes in the majority of the states!
They want states where she got fewer votes than Trump to award their EV to her because she got more votes in some other states she won!
Basically doing in these states what they are decrying supposedly happening nationwide?
The difference is that doing it via these states is actually disenfranchising them! It is nullifying their votes to placate a “popular vote” that has no legal basis in choosing the president.
"I'm posing with my hand like this so you'll know I'm smarter than you."
Now do you understand why Hillary keeps pretending she’s just “on a walk” “buying books” and “grocery-shopping”?
She’s behind all of this.
This guy is so full of crap, his eyes are brown....
The electoral college worked exactly like it was intended by the founders who wrote the Constitution....
It is incredible, and profoundly revealing, that a major American newspaper would permit something like this to be published.
Many think we should abolish the electoral college.
Many = Confused
United States of America.
A representative coalition of sovereign states.
Combined popular vote is meaningless.
Basic government.
We owe the Founders a debt which could never be paid.
They have saved us countless lives and provided the most dignified form of government ever conceived.
Teach your friends and family the meaning of a representative republic.
Correct!! To overturn this election will result in a shooting civil war. The would be dictatorship will jail and kill us if installed.
That. Also, I know quite a few conservative Californians who don't bother voting. In their districts, it makes no difference whatsoever. So, Hillary added to her numbers with illegal voters and increased her margin with a discouraged opposition. Either way you look at it, my President isn't going to be chosen this way.
Usual nitwittiness from the usual nitwits.
Indeed for we are the United STATEs.
.and the nominating process does the same thing, substituting delegates for electors (superdelegates at DNC).All states have their say
Yes they are... Of course WaPo staff hangings, as treasonous facilitators, is on pay per view on likely Trump TV.
I see a bunch of lefties who won’t accept election results.
Bring it on. The tree of liberty....etc.
Good way to start a war. And the first few million deceased democrats will come easy. Just head to the big blue cities.
Count the absentee ballots, which go 2/3 to Republicans, eliminate the millions of illegal voters, subtract the Clinton votes from the rigged voting machines that flipped from Trump to Clinton, eliminate the multiple voters, etc., and Trump would have won the popular vote by millions of votes.
And another few million dead voters and just ballots ‘found’ all of a sudden in someone’s car trunk.
Beady little pig eyes.
“WaPo advocating for civil war.”
Indeed.
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