Posted on 08/21/2019 9:30:27 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Monday called the U.S. Electoral College “a scam” that negatively affects minorities.
“We’re coming to you live from the Electoral College,” the New York Democrat said in a video on Instagram, which featured her driving along a sparsely populated highway in what appears to be a desert somewhere in the western part of the country. “Many votes here, as you can see. Very efficient way to choose leadership of the country. I mean I can’t think of any other way, can you?”
The freshman congresswoman went on to cite a New York magazine story titled, “Here’s Every Defense of the Electoral College — and Why They’re All Wrong.”
“Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the Electoral College effectively weighs white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a ‘one person, one vote’ system where all our votes are counted equally,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Could you imagine if we had this kind of democracy-altering ‘fairness’ provision for literally any other group? If we weighed, for example, black and indigenous voters more because of unfairness?”
“Facts are facts America,” said the 29-year-old progressive, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens. “The Electoral College has to go.”
Several Democratic presidential candidates, including Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg, have also said they believe the Electoral College should be retired.
The notion of ending the Electoral College has picked up steam lately in blue states. A number of states have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would give the states’ electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote. But the agreement will not take effect until the electoral votes of participating states total 270.
So sayeth the wannabe Overlord. The EC gives the smaller and/or less populous states a voice in electing a president.
Ah shut up and have another bottle of Wine
Ping.
Shut up, Sandy.
What the heck? Facts are facts?
To say the electoral college has got to go, is an opinion, not a fact. What the heck does a one liner such as “facts are facts” have to do with what she is trying to say?
You have to go.
Twit.
I how this idiot appears to know nothing of the original intent of the Electoral College. She thinks it should be like American Idol.
I don’t think she can conceive of a person voting against her ideas.
Let the Blue states give up the electoral college...it just increases the possibility that Trump will get all 535 electoral votes. He will beat Reagan's record.
So clear that her real purpose is to state the true aims of the Democrat Party thus desensitizing the citizenry for what is the next freedom they will lose. Anyone remember the kerfuffle over National Identity Cards? But we all have one which must be provided before doing most things as we move to a cashless society.
You spelled it wrong. “Wine” should be “Whine” ...
She has such wisdom. Unlike our Founding Fathers.
LMAO!! She probably thinks it’s a diploma mill.
No, its part of the Constitution.
A bartender should know that.
If someone didn’t count cadence for her she’d forget to breathe..
The REAL scam is being perpetrated by candidates running in the RAT party by trying to sell us on socialism. They tell folks about all the “gimme’s”, but say nothing about the “take aways” . . . take-aways like personal and freedom, livelihood, personal property, and possibly even your very life . . . just like Marxism and its derivatives was responsible for well over 100 million deaths in the 20th century. Oh . . . they forgot to mention that minute detail.
The Electoral College is the only thing that prevents LA, the NY/Boston/DC corridor, Chicago, and Houston (illegal aliens) from deciding ALL future Presidential races. Without it, there is NO input from the rest of the country.
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