Who are this "we know the Electoral College was founded on a rotten foundation"?
WHY are so many of our elected representatives purposely don't read the Constitution nor our history?
His statement is hilarious since the slave states were all run by Democrats! What a Putz!
It’s almost comical the way these twat bots are wound up by their masters then run around in circles chirping out the same mindless drivel.
Dems, listen up....
Destroying our Electoral College is equal to destroying our constition and that would be lock and load time.
We won the right via armed conflict to construct our constitution.
If need be we will protect that constitution with all force necessary.
You see, the EC was put in place to protect Americans from being subjected to the mob rule of those who live in a few big cities.
Yes, we insist that it stays that way!
The Electoral College has pros and cons.
The con is that it limits third parties.
Face it, the two-party system is the biggest crisis facing America.
Americans are tired of Republicrats.
The GOP is not worth shit.
If the EC is gone, you can potentially elect a conservative third party.
The EC is probably going to go soon. Millennials are not Democrats nor Republicans and they HATE both parties.
Get used to the EC going away soon.
Plus the slavery thing will be used against it.
...... Dear Sen. Merkley .... You do realize that you just stated that those States are no longer important don't you?
Fake History by a Fake American.
If you want to be ruled by the Blue cities, then getting rid of the Electoral College is for you.
“Dem Sen. Merkley: The Electoral College ‘Diminishes the Legitimacy of Our President” Legitimacy is only diminished to idiot Democrats who don’t understand out system of government and haven’t a brain cell in their head. Civil war is becoming more and more likely if this country is to survive under our Constitution because of idiots like Markley.
Translation:
Democrats can no longer win nationally because of those damned peons in flyover country, so we need to change the rules.
Thank God our country wasn’t founded and fought for by people from OR like him and Wyden....of course, the state didn’t exist then but there must have been some counterparts somewhere in the 13 colonies. Where DID these people come from? Could they go back possibly?
The Democrat Thug Party can go FOAD
This genius is purposely harming future generations from his home state. What do the people from Oregon think about this insanity? The EC protects small states - not slave states.
Big blue states commit massive voter fraud.
Do we want presidents selected by CA? No.
A good strategy would to demand blue states allow
stringent election supervision as a precursor to national vote.
Uncover fraud. Throw the commies in jail.
This is their plan beyond taking full control of the Presidency for the next 50 years.
Since they won’t have to spend $$$ on Presidential elections, they can throw 100% into State and Local elections.
In 50 years, we are looking at One Party Rule coast to coast.
By the time the GOP-e figures this out, they will all be dead and the rest of us will be trying avoid the FBI for weapon confiscation.
These are the same idiots who think “3/5ths a person” was a slight to blacks.
Which, of course, cannot be eliminated by legislation.
Since the ratification of the 17th Amendment, the senate is nothing but a smaller House of Representatives.
Get rid of one or the other. There's no need to have the people so poorly represented in two places-one's plenty.
It was founded as an effort, as a strategy to accentuate the strength of those states who were slave states.
I could be mistaken (I’m not) but the United Kingdom does not pick its Prime Minister by giving the job to the one with the popular vote, but rather by which party wins the most seats in Parliament. We pick our President by which Party wins the most electors.
The winner-takes-all is not mandated in the Constitution. States could award their electors by Congressional Districts and the winner of the state’s popular vote gets an additional two electoral votes. This would open up more states for campaigning.
Perhaps the push should be for that change.
The left are all nutz.
In 1787 most of the Northern states still had slavery. The earlier rule (Continental Congress, Articles of Confederation) was for each state to have one vote. The small states tried to keep that rule at the Constitutional Convention but eventually compromised with the House of Representatives being based on population and the Senate having equal representation for each state.
The electoral college was devised when political parties were not foreseen and it was thought that electors would vote initially for people they knew (therefore the rule that they must cast votes for two people, one of which could not be a resident of their own state) and it was expected that elections would often be settled in the House of Representatives (where each state has one vote). States did not have to choose electors based on popular vote and for early Presidential elections we don't know who had how many popular votes. As late as 1860 South Carolina chose its electors by a convention.
All but two elections have been decided by the electoral college--so has nearly every President been illegitimate?
This is one more Democratic Party step towards enslavement of the citizenry. After all then the major (Democrat CITIES ) WILL CONTROL THE WHOLE COUNTRY!