Durbin Announces Push For National Popular Vote Legislation

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) ^ | 12.20.16 | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

[Dilbert San Diego]

Exactly. We keep hearing Hillary won the popular vote.

Hillary got 48% of the vote. She had a plurality but not a majority.

52% voted for someone other than Hillary.

Nobody bitched about the electoral college when Bill Clinton won two elections while getting less than 50% of the popular vote each time.

[stylin19a]

arg....
Amreican = American
loosing = losing

[hsmomx3]

Geeze...let’s hope not but years from now, I do see this happening.

[Cheerio]

I would hope the states fights this to the death, and I also wish the States would use Article V to undo the 17th Amendment - Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures.

[editor-surveyor]

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Doesn’t matter!

Trump beat her in popular votes too, by the 30,000,000 fraudulent votes democraps depend on.

[Paladin2]

I'm quite sure that there was a large disparity in how many votes it took to get an EV in Calif. vs. Fla.

In Calif. the EVs are way cheaper. Somebody needs to investigate.

[nikos1121]

It’s been reported that Clinton carried the popular vote because of her overwhelming votes in New York city, and LA county. She lost virtually over 90% of the other counties.

So, winning the popular vote is easy if you’re the incumbent party in these large urban centers, who provide income, jobs and other benefits to people, who will inturn vote for you.

We have idiots in congress, and this guy is one of the worst.

[fella]

Mob rule proposed by “The Mob”.

[Cheerio]

Your point is ignored by the Old Main Media, and the other issue is that if you remove the Republic of Kalifornia popular vote, TRUMP WON THE POPULAR VOTE.

Do Americans want CA and NY picking the President from here on forward? Then the undoing of Article Two of the United States Constitution is just your ticket.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Dick Dirtbag just doing what he does.

[RayChuang88]

Senator Durbin, given that the Electoral College is defined in both the main text of the Constitution (Article I Section 2) and the 12th Amendment, good luck trying replace that with a pure popular vote! And the only way to do it is with a new Amendment to the Constitution.

You will need to get two-thirds of both houses of Congress to pass a resolution to enable the Amendment process, and three-fourths of all state legislatures to pass the Amendment itself. I highly doubt it will make it even out of Congress.

[Little Ray]

Because it is a great idea to let LA, the Northeast Corridor, and Chicago elect our presidents.

[C210N]

Trump won the plurality AND the majority of the popular vote in 48 states, removing the heavily-laden with criminaliens in CA/NY.

[WayneS]

Dick Durbin is a... ...well, a dick.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Good luck with that,Dick. “

Tell Dick, “yeah, we can change that law the minute you and the senate sign off on voter ID cards for everyone.”

If there was voter ID, Democrats would never win another election and they know it.

[Right-wing Librarian]

He’s a real......”Richard”.

[capydick]

He knows his party's Commielistic policies are not accepted by the vast majority of Americans. As a result, he attempts to disenfranchise the voters in 48 States in order to maintain power and ensuring his party's further destruction of America.

This is an attempted coup and should be called as such.

[Little Ray]

He isn’t doing away with the Electoral College - which would take an Amendment.
He is demanding that the states join a pact to allocate their Electoral Votes to whoever wins the popular vote, which simply takes state legislation.
Most states would have be insane to do this, but you never know. Insanity is pretty widely spread these days.
Fortunately, these days most governors and legislatures are ‘Pubbie, which reduces the chance.

[editor-surveyor]

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I strongly suspect that he may have won all but Hawai’i
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[skimbell]

You are absolutely correct.

Without the EC there would have been no nation.

If the communists in the democrat party want to push this chit, I would imagine that any state that so desired would have a pretty sound argument for walking out on the union that they joined, but can no longer find.