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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Oh Bananas
How a concept is worded makes all the difference.
What brain-stem level thinker doesn’t assume the word “popular” makes this way the way to go?
“Do it by county. Whoever wins the popular vote in a county gets one point. Most points gets the state’s electoral votes. This way cheating is localized.”
That’s not a bad idea!
63% of Americans have brain damage then.
“Popular Dominion Vote”
One party rule has worked so well for California.
Why not the entire country...?
Our Republic has run out the clock. Not that many even in our generation seem to understand our constitution ..... the electoral college etc. It isn’t taught in the schools.
Most of us on FR, I believe, are older. The generations under us have little idea and believe what the media and school tells them.
It’s not going back to the way it was, even Trump isn’t going to fix it.
Americans will have to suffer the consequences of their ignorance. But such is history. No empire lasts forever...none. It think the average is 250 years.
Read The fate of empires. https://www.docdroid.net/5CdrehR/the-fate-of-empires-by-sir-john-glubb-pdf
So they want five states or seven cities to elect the president?
Yup, my fellow citizens are not worthy of the Constitution.
and I bet 100% of those people are liberals.
The can have it. Simply gather a convention of states and vote on it. Easy peasy.
America isn't a representative republic, it's a Constitutional republic.
Faulty premise, faulty conclusion.
A book by George C. Edwards III, 2004.
Democracy is always an easy sell. If you admire democracy, if you feel that America is or should be a democracy, you’ll enjoy this book. If the 2000 election angered you not because Al Gore sought to extend recounts until Florida “got it right,” but instead because he won half a million more votes nationwide than George Bush and still lost, then this book is for you.
Purpose of the Electoral College. However, if you believe the Framers’ system served a distinct and noble purpose, that of providing an endless succession of George Washingtons, men of high public virtue, who arrive in office without political debts, and that any reform should address hundreds of years of political party corruption, then this work will disappoint. The purpose of the Electoral College isn’t Edwards’ concern.
Well, 82+million of 'em voted for Slow Joe in 2020, ya know..........
“In 2016 a liberal co-worker patiently explained to me that even if Trump won the popular vote he wouldn’t win because the witch had the electoral college vote tied up with california and new york.”
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The whole premise of the electoral college is to guard against tyranny of the majority. It is ultra-liberal populated cites massively occupied by Leftists and leeches that in a popular vote would rule every election. Of coarse, if the tide of their political leanings became conservatives then they would rule every election.
In 1787, the small states in America would NEVER have agreed to be united with the large states without the Electoral College.
In other words - without the Electoral College, the United States of America would NOT exist.
The Constitution establishes the representation so
it's just a Constitutional Republic.
Not until the waning days of the Philadelphia Convention did our Framers complete their plan of the Electoral College. In contrast, Article I elections to Congress and Article III appointments to the Scotus were taken care of weeks before. What took so long to determine Article II electors?
Delegates found enough difficulty thrashing out the particulars of a Legislature and a Judiciary whose purposes and general structures were familiar to generations of Americans. What about a chief Executive? How many?
Rome did quite well for much its history with two consuls. Annual or multi-year terms? How many terms? Maybe a life term like English monarchs? Should the Executive be subservient to the Legislature? Was he strictly an administrator, an executor of the law like most state governors? Should he lead armies? Popular election? Election by the state governors? English monarchs had Privy Councils, so why not the American CEO? Some time passed before delegates went beyond the term, “Executive.” After all, anything stronger might be interpreted as subversive intent for a nascent king. And thanks to George III, there were plenty of well-known executive abuses to avoid.
I will say, how many Republicans in California don’t bother to even vote because they figure it’s a foregone conclusion as to who will get their EVs?
Yeah, they are.
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