Warren: I’ll Be ‘Last American President Elected By The Electoral College’

The Federalist ^ | DECEMBER 3, 2019 | John Daniel Davidson

[dsrtsage]

With the popular vote you can then simply focus your fraud efforts to just 2 or 3 counties.

[Ancesthntr]

“One reason the electoral college crybabies crack me up is that it never occurred to them that Trump’s strategy was around an electoral college paradigm. If we had a “popular vote” scenario, he would have molded his strategy around that.”

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This is simply another observation of their uni-dimensional thinking. It also shows up in economics, when they claim that increasing X tax will generate $Y of revenue...and then they’re shocked to the core when people change their behavior and it generates a net loss of revenue. They are just not deep thinkers, and I’m convinced that this is because they are very much like children - they are simply incapable of it. Maybe this is because they have never been in the private sector, where you have to be nimble in reacting to competition, because EVERYONE is looking for an advantage, even if it is only 1%.

[cuban leaf]

You and I perceive this whole thing pretty much identically. Frankly, I think it’s why the “revolutionaries” are always the young people. They are easily manipulated and operate mostly on emotion - until age 25, where at least most of them grow up.

This is why the Democrats want to reduce the voting age to 16. 18 just wasn’t enough. This would be a very different country if the voting age was 25.

[Ancesthntr]

“I can’t wait. I think, I predict, Pres Trump is going to win the so-called “popular vote” this coming election, whether he’s “impeached” or not.

Then all those idiotic states:California, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, et al, who have SACRIFICED THEIR SOVEREIGNTY will have to give all their Electoral votes to Trump.”

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You know, that might be the trigger that actually makes a significant number of people literally go insane...and I’ll be munching on popcorn and enjoying that spectacle even more than 2016. I cannot wait for the meltdowns.

[jjotto]

The Democratic Party should show its dedication to the idea by holding a one day, 50 state primary with the candidate picked strictly by overall vote. I dare them!

[Ancesthntr]

I think that you misunderstand. Several states have passed laws that award their EVs to the national winner of the popular vote. So if Trump wins that vote, CA’s EVs go to him under that law, even if every single person in CA voted for his Dem opponent. They not only don’t have to vote for him, they simply won’t - but their EVs may.

[Mastador1]

So.....what she is saying is that the Electoral College will be around for a long, long time unlike Liawatha who continues to throw buffalo chips at teepee to see which one will stick.

[Ancesthntr]

“You and I perceive this whole thing pretty much identically. Frankly, I think it’s why the “revolutionaries” are always the young people. They are easily manipulated and operate mostly on emotion - until age 25, where at least most of them grow up.”

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Yup. I actually think that we should raise the voting age to 25, which is when the brain if pretty much finished developing. It is also more closely related to age 21 from years ago, in the sense that this is when most people are finally ready to stand on their own 2 feet and have a sense of responsibility. Even my 18 y.o. daughter agrees - she doesn’t want the idiots in her HS voting, even if it means her losing her vote for a time.

The lack of a fully developed mind isn’t just limited to older revolutionaries using young people as “useful idiots,” it is also great for training armies. You come to me at age 58 and say, “charge and eliminate that machine gun nest” and I’m likely to tell you where to shove that order because it makes no sense.

[Leep]

She should go back to her Reservation and stay out of the white man’s world.

[xkaydet65]

As Jeanne Kirkpatrick said about totaltarians
“ One mam, one vote, ONE TIME!”

[Gene Eric]

FO, bitch

[clearcarbon]

"So.....what she is saying is that the Electoral College will be around for a long, long time"

When the time of her election finally comes around I don't see how she'll be able to serve as president while simultaneously being part of a display in the Natural History Museum.

[GOPJ]

Because after a few years of living in a hellhole, their people will want to escape into our country... and we’ll need a wall to keep them out.

[Rummyfan]

what Warren and the Democrats would like to see, is exactly what Madison said it was: a tyranny of the majority. In this case, it would be a tyranny whose enormous power was concentrated in Washington, D.C., to an even greater extent than it already is.

Under a system based on direct democracy, federalism would wither and die. As the historian Allen Guelzo noted last year in National Affairs, once we eliminate the Electoral College, “there would be no sense in having a Senate (which, after all, represents the interests of the states), and eventually, no sense in even having states, except as administrative departments of the central government.”

Power mad lefties....

But how does she plan on getting around amending The Constitution?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Wasn’t the popular vote “deficit” only about 3 million in 2016?

Couldn’t Trump pick up that many votes with the newly converted African-American/Hispanic voters?

And maybe if Republicans could perform a little “ballot harvesting” of their own?

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, in the context of "wouldn't vote for you if you were the last candidate on Earth".

[FormerFRLurker]

So if Trump wins that vote, CA’s EVs go to him under that law, even if every single person in CA voted for his Dem opponent.

Which just gives CA Dems an incentive to crawl over razor wire to vote for the Demonrat candidate, which I suspect was the original intention of the law. Considering that California is home to about 1/8 the US population and that Californians vote overwhelmingly Dem, that is bound to have an effect on the national popular vote. And as much as we like to believe a majority of anti-Trump ballots cast in California were from illegal aliens I can tell you from personal experience that there are plenty of Californians who are US citizens and hate Trump.