Posted on 08/11/2022 1:34:28 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The majority of Americans would rather a national popular vote total decide presidential elections than the Electoral College vote totals, a survey from the think tank Pew Research Center has found.
The survey sampled more than 6,000 Americans, discovering that 63 percent would prefer presidential elections be decided by the national popular vote. Conversely, just 35 percent of respondents favored keeping “the current system, in which the candidate who wins the most votes in the Electoral College wins the election,” the survey found.
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BS! More lies. Guess the word ‘Americans’ mean anyone that crosses the border.
2/3 rds of America are idiots
I disagree.
The wisest thing they did was needing 75% of states needing to agree to changes like this. God help the day when 38bstates agree to give up their voice.
They don’t even understand the reason for the electoral college.
We're supposed to change the way we vote based on a measly 6000 stupid people? Not only no but HELL NO!
extremely dangerous.
we may reverse this if we take charge and instruct people. give them real life examples.
and we cannot back down.
Makes sense. With the internet communication is easy. We may not need as many layers of government. Think city, county, state, fed. Don’t need that many. Break the country into regions. How many? That’s what the convention of the states is all about.
And that poll is EXACTLY why popular vote shouldn’t decide elections.
Screw 'em. We are a republic and we're not gonna change.
...and perhaps female voters. (Cowering in anticipation of a hard slap)
This from the 2020 platform of the Constitution Party:
Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution states, in part:
“Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.”
This established the Electoral College.
The Constitution does not provide for the election of the President and Vice President of the United States by popular vote, but rather by the selection of “Electors” according to rules adopted by each state’s legislators. These electors would receive the list of certified candidates. They would then cast their vote for whomever they ascertained as best qualified to fill these two highest offices of trust with the federal government. The Constitution Party seeks a restoration of this electoral process for the choosing of the President and the Vice President of the United States.
Although the Constitution does not require the states to adhere to any specific manner in electing these electors or how they cast their votes, it suggests, by its wording, that prominent individuals from each congressional district, and from the state at large, would be elected or appointed as electors that represent that district. Under this arrangement, a voter would vote for three individuals, one to represent his district and two “at large” representatives to represent his state. These electors, in turn, would then carefully and deliberately select the candidate for president. Under this system each congressional district could, in essence, select a different candidate. The candidate with the most electors nationwide would become the next president.
This was the general procedure used until the 1830’s at which time all the states, except for South Carolina, changed to a “general ticket.” The “general ticket” system is still in use today. Inherently, it causes corruption by the inequitable transfer of power from congressional districts to the states and large cities at the expense of rural communities.
The Constitution Party encourages states to eliminate the “general ticket” system and return to the procedure intended by the Framers. The so-called National Popular Vote is a dangerous threat to our Constitutional Republic, allowing as few as eighteen to twenty-one states to circumvent the Constitutional requirement of 38 states to amend the Constitution. The National Popular Vote process would effectively eliminate the last vestiges of the Electoral College as originally set forth in the United States Constitution. The National Popular Vote creates a fake majority by forcing electors to vote against the votes cast by their own constituents.
The elimination of the Electoral College would overnight make irrelevant the votes of Americans in approximately 25 states because candidates would only be interested in campaigning in large population states making small states meaningless zeros. There is no threshold of what constitutes a “majority” under National Popular Vote. Therefore, a presidential candidate could be elected with as little as 15% of the popular vote. Under the National Popular Vote scheme, chaos would ensue in any close election. Under the Electoral College no single faction or region of the country can elect a president, ensuring broad representation across America.
The national Constitution Party opposes National Popular Vote and will work to defeat it in individual state legislatures.
1) Regardless, you’ll need a constitutional amendment to change the Electoral College method of elections.
2) The uneducated American People need a lot of remedial educating. Hope that happens sooner than later.
We currently have an illegitimate regime running our country, they know they are illegitimate and if they can get a national popular vote, they will simply have to continue to rig the elections where they live and they can keep all their power and influence.
These 63% are stupid Americans.
City people suck.
If 63% of the public wants that, it’s just further proof the current system is necessary.
When you tell these people that, in a popular vote, their vote won’t count...that the people in NYC and LA will choose the president, they’ll want to rethink what they want.
I think this would be a fine idea as long as people in Blue states only get 1/1000th of a vote.
Had such an idea been floated around in 1787 we never would have become a country.
Do people not realize there is a reason candidates go to Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa and other smaller states?
If we had a popular vote only big states would get any attention.
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