Posted on 09/02/2024 3:51:48 AM PDT by Words Matter
Chris Hayes called the Electoral College “a wildly dangerous institution that undermines democracy'
MSNBC host Chris Hayes fumed over new poll results showing former President Trump as the favorite to win the Electoral College and therefore the presidency in November.
On his X account Friday, the "All in With Chris Hayes" anchor blasted recent poll results from famed pollster Nate Silver showing that Harris would most likely beat Trump in the national popular vote if the election were held today, though Trump would win the Electoral College.
"It’s clear as day the Electoral College is, to quote the great Justice Jackson a national suicide pact," Hayes posted.
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I am just fine with oour present form of Government—Nothing wrong that a good election can’t fix—a good honest election.
The electoral college is like the watertight holds of a ship that prevent any single breach from sinking the entire ship.
Thank you for the Discover article.
I miss read his post.
I agree.
Who are the real threats to democracy?
Yer welcome.
The ANSWER to many of our problems in this country is for the new, more conservative SCOTUS, to OVERTURN the insane decision made by the leftist 60s SCOTUS that forced states to apportion state senators by population instead of how it is done at the federal level where each county or geographic area would get 1 state senator. Instead, thanks to the leftist 60s SCOTUS, they are treated just like state representatives and apportioned by population. It is completely wrong ... our founders at the state level were copying the national level with a bicameral legislature of senators and representatives. The LEFTIST 60s SCOTUS overthrew our form of government and made state legislatures de facto unicameral legislatures instead of bicameral!!!! THIS is why states like Illinois are completely run by Chicago leftists!!! State senators are now nothing more than a copy of the represenatives in the state congress!
THIS SCOTUS ruling must be the #1 goal for conservatives to overturn like we finally got Roe v. Wade overturned! It would keep almost all blue states from being blue. Almost every blue state is controlled by 1 huge liberal city. It’s exactly what our founders did NOT want to happen in this country and we are paying a huge price for it now, all thanks to the satanic 60s leftist SCOTUS that gave us abortion, removed God from schools, and all other sorts of national and societal destruction.
So few conservatives even know or think about this decision that has handed our country over to leftists and communists. It should be a top priority to get this ruling overturned and we can save many blue states.
Lynch mobs are democratic.
I worry when they’re smiling.
So in other words, Chris Hayes mangled the quotes meaning. Figures.
/The electoral college
//isn’t part of the Bill of Rights
///and Jackson’s words were from his dissent
////on the free speech case “Terminiello v. City of Chicago”
Well now abortions are a matter of states’ rights.
You could have something similar to the electoral college for statewide offices. Each county gets one electoral vote for governor.
Imagine if each county had 2 state senators just like each state has 2 senators at the federal level. Almost every blue state would have a republican state senate. Also note how the “one person one vote” principal was twisted to allow the left to take control in this case, yet the “one person one vote” principal is never used when leftists ballot harvest and fill out ballots and drop them into boxes for others...
Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population. Along with Baker v. Carr (1962) and Wesberry v. Sanders (1964), it was part of a series of Warren Court cases that applied the principle of “one person, one vote” to U.S. legislative bodies.
Prior to the case, numerous state legislative chambers had districts containing unequal populations; for example, in the Nevada Senate, the smallest district had 568 people, while the largest had approximately 127,000 people. Some states refused to engage in regular redistricting, while others enshrined county by county representation (like the U.S. constitution does with state by state representation) in their constitutions. The case of Reynolds v. Sims arose after voters in Birmingham, Alabama, challenged the apportionment of the Alabama Legislature; the Constitution of Alabama provided for one state senator per county regardless of population differences.
In a majority opinion joined by five other justices, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause requires states to establish state legislative electoral districts roughly equal in population. Warren held that “legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.” In his dissenting opinion, Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan II argued that the Equal Protection Clause was not designed to apply to voting rights. The decision had a major impact on state legislatures, as many states had to change their system of representation.[1
Jackson is a she. Or is she? She doesn’t know.
Excellent comments. This happened before I was born and I’m not very aware of it, but can see the problem. Can you point out the specific SCOTUS ruling?
We don’t live in a democracy. So what is to upset?
“the great Justice Jackson “
Who doesn’t even know what a woman is.
The EC is all that stands between us in the heartland and total domination by the brain dead population centers. I doubt it will stand much longer.
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