Posted on 03/19/2019 9:04:10 PM PDT by Moonman62
Campaigning for the Popular Vote is much easier & different than campaigning for the Electoral College. It’s like training for the 100 yard dash vs. a marathon. The brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win. With the Popular Vote, you go to....
....just the large States - the Cities would end up running the Country. Smaller States & the entire Midwest would end up losing all power - & we can’t let that happen. I used to like the idea of the Popular Vote, but now realize the Electoral College is far better for the U.S.A.
Going to popular vote could be the tipping point for the USA
We’re going to pass on illegally changing the Constitution, mkay.
If a bunch of blue states want to elect a president using illegal means, then that president can not be recognized at all.
You break the rules, the contract is over.
If the Electoral College did not exist, Democrats would just keep shoveling more “discovered” ballots until they had won the election, no matter how many weeks it to manufacture er, “find” the uncounted ballots.
..” the Cities would end up running the Country”
more like the Cities would end up ruining the Country
If a candidate can’t win the Electoral College?, - then they
have no business what-so-ever being President of the USA.
The real reason we don't count the popular vote is that the people are not electing the President. When you vote in a presidential election you are voting for how you want your state to cast it's vote. It's the states that are electing the President. DJT is the President of the STATES not the people. The function of the EC is to compensate for the states with larger populations. California gets more electoral votes because they have more people. If we eliminate the EC then all the states would get one vote each. Fifty states, fifty votes and the majority wins with a tie break by congress. We would NEVER add all the peoples votes together because we don't have a president of the people. We have a President of the states. It says it right there in the title of the office. President Of The United States not president of the united people.
These idiots have been SCREAMING since Trump won the election about how he is destroying our democracy YET these asshats are the ones trying to uproot EVERYTHING this country has survived on for the past 200+ years!!! 16 year olds voting, flooding the Supreme Court, AND demolishing the Electoral College NOW tell me who in the hell is TRULY trying to demolish our way of government!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!
It is in fact believable, all of it!
“SCREAMING”
Yes, you are. There’s no need. You’re among adults here.
Yes, it's pretty clear the left is trying to install a totalitarian form of government.
Thank you for your explanation. The founders created us as The United STATES of America. They realized that they needed a stronger federal government than existed under the Articles of Confederation, but they still wanted a division of power so that the STATES would have all of the powers that were not delegated to the federal government (Bill of Rights #10). The Electoral College was designed to help protect the power of the individual states.
I have been saying this. Trump, being a winner, would win a popular vote. Different game, different strato.
They’re just not getting it. He won. He will continue to win
He came along just as they were ready to take over completely
Our issue is going to be who will step up for 2024
The brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win. With the Popular Vote, you go to.... ....just the large States - the Cities would end up running the Country. Smaller States & the entire Midwest would end up losing all power - & we can’t let that happen. I used to like the idea of the Popular Vote, but now realize the Electoral College is far better for the U.S.A.
Thanks Moonman62. This should cause the Demwits to redouble their efforts to pass NPV -- a measure that will guarantee President Trump's reelection, as well as squirting lemon juice into the Demwits' and Libtards' eyes when the NY and CA electoral votes *have to* go to the Donald. They'll be on psych meds for years thereafter. And if they start to get cold feet, they'll NOT push for NPV, and can be called out on it, plus they'll lose in 2020 anyway. 4D chess.
Mike Rowe
+1
They’re good at accusing the Republicans at what they’re doing. It’s so clear to me now why they accuse Trump of being a foreign agent, because Obama was.
Didn’t California have a 150% voter turnout in 2018? ;)
This has been my argument as well, ever since this nonsense started. I’ve compared the popular vote to yards rushing in a football game.
And to sum up for people regarding the states electing the president I use the EU example. The EU is a sort of model of the US. It is a higher government authority with standardized rules for all of the “mostly” sovereign nations within its umbrella of authority. The people don’t choose the leaders in the EU. The countries within it do. And that makes total sense.
The bottom line is that before the civil war, the US was usually or often referred to as “THESE” united states.
I see every state in the union as its own country, with its culture and rules. But the ties via the federal government include things like no border checkpoints between “countries”, the ability to drive in any state with one state’s license, your “marriage” binding in all states no matter which one it occurred in, and, eventually, the same situation with gun laws - get a CCW in WAshington state and you’re good for New Jersey.
But the states are actually sovereign as long as they don’t violate the Federal Constituion.
“Going to popular vote could be the tipping point for the USA”
Actually, if done correctly, Democrats would never win another national election. They are going on the premise that Hillary won the popular vote. She did, but she won the popular vote because one state (California) had her winning the popular vote by the margin that gave her the national popular vote. It’s the same premise that without the superdelegates, Hillary wouldn’t have hit the target number to get her over the top on the first ballot.
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