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.
Posted on 12/22/2016 10:20:32 AM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced a renewed effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to honor the principle of “one person, one vote” in the election of U.S. President and Vice President. Durbin first proposed this constitutional amendment in 2000 and has supported it regardless of the outcome in previous presidential elections. Republican Congressman Ray LaHood joined Durbin in his earlier efforts.
Noting the challenges of passing a constitutional amendment, Durbin also called on states to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would require each state’s electors to cast a ballot in favor of the candidate who won the national popular vote.
“Twice in recent memory, a majority of American voters cast their vote for the losing presidential candidate. This is certainly not what the Founders intended. It’s time to retire this 18th century invention that disenfranchises millions of Americans,” said Senator Durbin. “The American people deserve to choose all of their leaders, and I will continue to support efforts to empower voters. We face an uphill battle in Congress, but states have the power to act now by adopting the Compact and committing their electors to the candidate chosen by the voters.”
So far, 11 jurisdictions have entered the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact: Illinois, California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. These jurisdictions represent a total of 165 Electoral College votes. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will take effect when enough states have joined the Compact to represent a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538).
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.
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Amreican = American
loosing = losing
Geeze...let’s hope not but years from now, I do see this happening.
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.
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Doesn’t matter!
Trump beat her in popular votes too, by the 30,000,000 fraudulent votes democraps depend on.
In Calif. the EVs are way cheaper. Somebody needs to investigate.
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.
Mob rule proposed by “The Mob”.
Dick Dirtbag just doing what he does.
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.
Because it is a great idea to let LA, the Northeast Corridor, and Chicago elect our presidents.
Trump won the plurality AND the majority of the popular vote in 48 states, removing the heavily-laden with criminaliens in CA/NY.
Dick Durbin is a... ...well, a dick.
“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.
He’s a real......”Richard”.
This is an attempted coup and should be called as such.
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.
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I strongly suspect that he may have won all but Hawai’i
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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.
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