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NY Times: Scrap the Electoral College because of slavery
American Thinker ^ | December 23, 2016 | J. Morsolo

Posted on 12/23/2016 4:38:48 AM PST by Kaslin

The New York Times endorsed the election of presidents by popular vote in the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The Times resorts to playing the race card by arguing that the original reason for the Electoral College was to favor the Southern slave states:

The Electoral College, which is written into the Constitution, is more than just a vestige of the founding era; it is a living symbol of America's original sin. When slavery was the law of the land, a direct popular vote would have disadvantaged the Southern states, with their large disenfranchised populations. Counting those men and women as three-fifths of a white person, as the Constitution originally did gave the slave states more electoral votes.

This race argument is based on the essays by attorney Donald Applestein and Yale law professor, Aklhil Amar, who argue that counting each slave as three fifths of a person added to the population of the slave states, thereby giving the slave states more representatives in the House and therefore more electoral votes than it would have if slaves were not counted.

The Times is linking the argument for a popular vote election to labeling the Electoral College as a living symbol of slavery that must be abolished. We fought a civil war to end slavery, but the Times dredges up slavery as reason to endorse the popular vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; electoralcollege; hillaryrottenclinton; newyorkslimes; tds
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1 posted on 12/23/2016 4:38:48 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

We need to “scrap” the New Yawk Slimes because of their mental retardation. Just because their b*tch didn’t win, we don’t need to change the Constitution. FUNYT!


2 posted on 12/23/2016 4:40:36 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Kaslin
The NYT needs to get over it.
Trump won the "Popular Vote" in a "Majority of the States".
3 posted on 12/23/2016 4:45:00 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: FlingWingFlyer

4 posted on 12/23/2016 4:46:44 AM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Kaslin

Seem like outfits like the NYT, who prove they are nutsoid, are actually hastening the left’s own demise..?


5 posted on 12/23/2016 4:48:19 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: Falcon4.0

He sure did.


6 posted on 12/23/2016 4:48:51 AM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Falcon4.0

He sure did.


7 posted on 12/23/2016 4:48:53 AM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

When are these idiots going to understand that the election is over, and they lost!


8 posted on 12/23/2016 4:53:37 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Kaslin

The New York Times is thisclose to being history.


9 posted on 12/23/2016 4:53:55 AM PST by Don Corleone (.)
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Because of the electoral college CA and NY will not be the slave masters over the rest of the country.


10 posted on 12/23/2016 4:54:27 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Kaslin

None of these idiots have any notion that in 1787 most states allowed slavery, the North was neither industrialized or larger in population than the South. More small states empowered by the Electoral College were in the North, Conn, NH, Delaware, RI, and it was the fear of leaders in these states of being overwhelmed by the likes of Va, Pa, NY that led to the electoral college’s adoption. The Left takes the regional situation regarding population and economic base that existed in 1850, after the great immigration wave of the 1840s and the development of Northern industry and claims this was the reality in 1787. They really believe Americans are ignorant thralls.


11 posted on 12/23/2016 4:54:45 AM PST by xkaydet65
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Can we all line up and grovel at the feet of this hate-rag of lies and distortions?


12 posted on 12/23/2016 4:55:15 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Kaslin

If Hillary won through the electoral college we would be reading what a great and clever insight our founders had. And by the same authors of Trump haters.


13 posted on 12/23/2016 4:55:44 AM PST by just me (God bless President Truump and the USA)
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To: Kaslin

Given the propensity of the old gray whore, madam of the brothel of presstitutes, to produce fake news and otherwise just lie, the remaining floors after the just reduced 8 floors of the building should be cordoned off and no admittance allowed by any one. She has forfeited her right


14 posted on 12/23/2016 4:58:45 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: Kaslin
Tilting at windmills.

There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution. So, good luck, Mr. New York Times!

Of the G7, large economically developed countries, exactly 1 (one) directly elects it's Head of State -- France! (So does Mexico.) Let's be more like France and Mexico? Tough sell.

15 posted on 12/23/2016 4:58:48 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: USCG SimTech

Post of the Election!


16 posted on 12/23/2016 4:59:14 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Merry Christmas to All! Thank God and Trump that we can say this again!)
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I would seriously consider getting rid of the Electoral College only when Voter ID is implemented
Your ID card is the only thing that will register a vote & since the computer knows every registered voter it is tamper proof


17 posted on 12/23/2016 4:59:20 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Kaslin
Based on the 1790 census, it certainly appears that at the time the constitution was ratified, Virginia and North Carolina each had larger white populations than either New York or Massachusetts.

The NYT and their DNC minions need to try a different lie.

18 posted on 12/23/2016 4:59:49 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Kaslin

The rest of the country needs to submit to LA & NYC and become slaves to the elites who know what’s best for us all.

(didn’t read it so I’m just guessing that’s the real end they desire even if not the details of the article)


19 posted on 12/23/2016 5:00:23 AM PST by LostPassword
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THIS is what the left has shrunk to since Election Day? THIS is the best they can churn out? As I’ve said before, they don’t know what lie to tell.


20 posted on 12/23/2016 5:01:29 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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