Posted on 04/19/2024 2:31:03 PM PDT by Baladas
Earlier this week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) decided not to veto an obscure law called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), which calls for the state's 4 Electoral College votes to be awarded to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationally regardless of the outcome in the state. The law doesn't go into effect, however, until states totaling 270 electoral votes join the compact. That's the number of Electoral College votes required to win the presidency. Once dismissed as an unworkable, almost farcical fantasy, the NPV just tallied its 209th electoral vote with Maine, and now has a clear path to victory. And that means that the Electoral College as we know it might not survive past the 2024 election cycle.
This is incredible news. The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world. It has already malfunctioned twice this century by awarding the presidency to the person who received fewer votes from the American electorate. The 2000 election of George W. Bush, who steered us directly into three distinct catastrophes—the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the Great Recession—sent our new century disastrously off course in ways we are still feeling today. The even-more egregious 2016 elevation of former President Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote more decisively than Bush, resulted in the capture of the Supreme Court by reactionary conservatives for at least a generation.
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Exactly. Another feature of the Electoral College is to defeat fraud and chicanery.
Roosevelt was founded to be a left wing institution from its inception. At other campuses the radicals had to work their voodoo over decades by infiltrating the faculty. Roosevelt was far out by design from Day One.
Thank you, the Electoral College has indeed functioned correctly twice (and more) already in the 21st century.
Without it, zero attention would be paid to states like Wyoming in campaigning. (They need their fair share of crap promises and lies just like the big states!)
And is it not a tiny issue? Only a few more votes in only a few more places can assure victory, both sides have to do that, but oh do “they” hate it. You can see it with things like abortion now:
“They” are so put out over the overturn of RvW that you would think abortion is completely illegal!
They want everyone coast to coast to always do just whatever “they” want. We might as well be one big state!
All must bow to the 51%.
This is why they obsess with referring the these USA as “democracy” instead of a free republic or a constitutional republic.
Today I watched this, worth the 20+ minutes — Megan Basham interviewed. She is an amazing speaker and raised the issue of how all of a sudden “they” are OUTRAGED that some people that they label Christian Nationalists, which apparently even includes atheists that “they” don’t like — think our rights are inalienable and come from God rather that 51% of 350 million adult voters. Who knew?
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1781080270369595785
Finally, and this must drive “them” nuts, Joe Biden recently mumbling in an attempt at a campaign speech:
“What do you want, Freedom or a Democracy?”
Yea, Electoral College!, a little thing that makes a Free Republic not be as much of a tyranny of a majority.
I’m thinking he probably has to shut down his email after this stinker.
Hillsdale….
A goniff, or more crudely a jagoff….
States did not enter the union under the understanding of popular vote rule. As separate nation states, they agreed to enter this union under this constitution. Change the union without following its own amendment process for change, and the have the right to withdraw for breech of contract.
either that...or youll see the most violent break up of a country thats ever been seen...pick your poison.
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That's what the title really says.
“The U.S. Electoral College is, by a quite considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid democratic institution in the world.”
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And the author of this article is, by quite a considerable margin, the most unfathomably stupid Left-wing pundit in the world.
Better representation if it were one county one electoral vote. Two counties in NV stick it the other ones every (s)election.
It gave us bill clinton and he didn't receive the majority of votes in 1992. Slick got 43% of the vote...which means 57% voted against him.
I have wondered how SCOTUS could allow a state to void the will of its voters. If 52% of a state’s voters cast for Trump how can the state ignore that and give its electors to Biden. Also in most states isn’t it the electors who are actually chosen by the voters?
How is it allowable to dismiss them and replace them with another slate. Years ago SCOTUS made a big decision about one man one vote. It said states could not emulate the Senate in their state legislative or local legislative bodies. It was wrong for Staten Island to have as many state Senators as Brooklyn. IMHO this idea of overturning the voters choice is worse.
This is how they've always advanced. Keep saying, it...saying it...saying it.
I think the Electoral College is genius.
What the phd doesn't get is that the person who carried the state did win the MAJORITY of the votes in that state.
Consequently, to win the presidency you have to win the majority of the available EVs....hence, the person has won the majority of the votes.
The Founding Fathers understood this and instituted the EC to give small states a voice in the presidential election. Without this system, you'd never hear from RI, WY, etc.
I find it interesting that in the 2016 presidential election, if you subtract the popular vote totals that Clinton and Trump received in California from the nationwide popular vote totals for these 2 candidates, Trump had more total popular votes in the other 49 states combined than did Clinton. So California made all the difference in Clinton receiving more nationwide popular votes than Trump in 2016.
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