Posted on 10/13/2019 8:22:16 AM PDT by Libloather
The Republican Party is set to win a large majority of all future close presidential elections, even contests in which they lose the popular vote, according to a recent study.
GOP candidates for president can expect to be victorious in 65 percent of future presidential elections and University of Texas at Austin researchers analyzed why "inversions" — where the popular vote winner loses the overall election — has happened twice since 2000.
The study authors found that the Electoral College's winner-take-all approach favors Republicans and has pushed them to victories in 2000 and 2016.
The researchers concluded that inversions will occur more and more in 2020 and beyond unless a policy change completely dissolves, rather than reforms, the Electoral College.
The study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
For over two hundred years the Electoral College was never an issue. Then Democrats lose a couple elections and all the sudden it has to go. Interesting isn’t it?
You have lots of electoral districts in major cities, where the Dem may win by 90%.
Total BS study to cover up the fact that the Democrats message doesn’t resonate with the great majority of Americans.
How about having the media democrat propaganda machine have the free propaganda for dem politicians fall under campaign contribution regulations.
The District of Columbia and 48 states have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate), takes all of the state’s Electoral votes.All the states have to do is copy what Maine and Nebraska have done.Only two states, Nebraska and Maine, do not follow the winner-takes-all rule. In those states, there could be a split of Electoral votes among candidates through the state’s system for proportional allocation of votes. For example, Maine has four Electoral votes and two Congressional districts. It awards one Electoral vote per Congressional district and two by the state-wide, “at-large” vote. It is possible for Candidate A to win the first district and receive one Electoral vote, Candidate B to win the second district and receive one Electoral vote, and Candidate C, who finished a close second in both the first and second districts, to win the two at-large Electoral votes. Although this is a possible scenario, it has not actually happened.
“...unless a policy change completely dissolves, rather than reforms, the Electoral College.”
Takes more than a “policy change”, Benny. Constitutional amendment or STFU.
How ironic and hypocritical since this is what they want with the national popular vote. Yes, because it keeps a minority in one area from over riding the majority in that same demographic area. As it should be... And it affords them the same protections when it is the other way around with their local vote.
We are a Republic not a democracy.
Translation into English: Read “we need to dump the Electoral College so the democRATS can win again.”
So it works fine when the Dems are in charge. But there is an “issue” when the Conservatives win.
Got it...
Citizens don’t elect the President, states do. That’s the way it works in a Constitutional Republic. There is no “popular vote”.
Because the USG is a “Constitutional Republic” would that not make the EC naturally a “Republican” institution rather than a “Democratic” one?
The Dems are finally and openly acknowledging that their ideology is in conflict with our established form of government. Yet they cannot systemically use the established mechanisms to alter it. That is the sine qua non for their attacks on 1A and 2A.
Constitution??? We don’t need no stinking Constitution!!!
The electoral college helps limit the amount of damage that out of control voter fraud in big urban areas does to the presidential election.
The STATES vote for President.
If you want to change that, dissolve the union first and let the states decide if they want to join your totalitarian communist prison camp.
I enjoy countering with: Trump won the popular vote of the USA by 1.5 million. Hillary won ballot-harvesting, motor-voter California by 4.3 million, but the election was essentially decided before CA tabulated it’s first vote.
Nice irony there, Stosh. Well said.
Then how did Obama and Clinton got elected twice?
The only way to get rid of the electoral college is through a constitutional amendment.
And the states that want this amendment does not have the required number of states to pass this. Life’s a b*tch.
They came for the Constitution... and then they came for you and me.
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