Posted on 12/06/2016 3:51:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
In the wake of an election in which Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but Donald Trump was elected president by winning the Electoral College, a survey showed the lowest percentage of people ever in a Gallup poll saying they would support amending the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College and decide presidential elections by the popular vote.
“This year, for the first time in the 49 years Gallup has asked about it, less than half of Americans want to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system,” Gallup said in an analysis of its poll results.
Gallup’s latest poll on the issue, conducted November 28-29—three weeks after this year’s election—showed that 49 percent said they would amend the Constitution so that the nationwide populate vote would decide the presidential election. Forty-seven percent said they would keep the Electoral College system. …
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By your logic, California would have Forty Senators,
Congressional districts are not counties. They are boundary units drawn by population. The example I pasted was not particularly representative of the districts around NYC but, I think it showed the imbalance of popular vote counting.
We keep winning, they keep whining.
Headline of the Day Poll
What motivates faithless electors who refuse to vote for Trump?
Personal integrity: They are following their consciences
Dishonesty: They are Leftists in disguise
Narcissism: They are seeking attention
Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz4S8irysK5
I find it ironic that Gallup is taking a popular vote about the electoral college. . .
I would be open to amending the system to something that will allow people like Republicans in California to have a voice while still preventing Democrats from using the fact that they are packed in like sardines in a few easily covered areas to gain an unfair advantage. But yeah, naive conversion to a popular vote would be unwise, especially when Dems get to pick and choose which popular votes they’ll keep or get thrown out by a judge.
Once the notion to amend the system starts, our country is done. Although the effort at first will be to do something "good", by the time the leftist traitors get done, you will soon be enslaved under a Muslim terrorist Sharia Law hell.
It is what leftist do, they lie and manipulate. In fact, they think they can pull off just about any lie and get away with it. Just look at the last eight years.
This is great news, but fascinating. I would’ve thought that with the lefties and Hillary supporters wanting it abolished and the meme wars about it that support would be lower for keeping it. Maybe some Americans are smarter than I thought.
Great post!
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As was pointed out, the stats I clipped reflect New York, but could very well apply in Los Angeles and maybe Houston, too. Those areas could never be over come if the electoral college were to be abandoned.
No question about it.
They never explained the Electoral College in high-school civics class in the 1980s, implying that it was some kind of anachronism that was left over from slavery days; they always falsely called the USA a “representative democracy” too. And they always put a positive spin on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to boot.
Surely Boston deserves to be included, which would run the number to an even 12.
I thought about it, but focused on the most populous counties dominated by liberals (and DC being the ultimate establishment city). But adding more liberal cities makes the margin in the rest of America even more dramatic.
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