Posted on 11/11/2024 12:23:39 AM PST by CFW
Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
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We need to vote out the immoral men and women and replace them with those with biblical morals.
The Electoral college was put in place because in a Democracy we would have mob law and California would rule the nation. In a Constitutional Republic the people have equal representation in government no matter whether they live in a well-populated city or a small rural community in Oklahoma. Without it our nation would have collapsed not long after its founding.
This should put an end to all of the libtard tears about the Electoral College "rigging elections."
I’ve been listening to El Rush-Bo podcasts from after President Trump was elected in 2016.
This guy named Nate Silver is apparently a Drive-By Media darling who never gets anything correct. He was so discombobulated, he feared President Trump’s finger on the nuclear trigger, and he published an “electoral map” of what would be left of the voters after nuclear war. Rush was laughing along with the rest of us.
https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/812304736619732992/photo/1
Their reasoning is simple when you look at it with the same numbers they were looking at. 13 colonies, largest populations in New York City and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
Providential. Seems a rather radical and inspired ideal compared to more Democratic solutions. A Republic. N’est-ce pas?
The size of the cities has little to do with it! The real reason for the electoral college is that it prevents ANY area from “producing” spurious votes in order to cancel legitimate votes from the rest of the country.
People who are willing to pump out spurious votes are compartmentalized to a single state.
Nate Silver thinks he is an election guru and many people take his word as gospel. He is wrong more than right and he gets offended if anyone points that out.
Nate Silver was hilarious. Up until the final minute, this famed prognosticator was basically, "We have no idea which way this race is going to go."
Thanks, Nate. Good job, buddy.
Their reasoning is simple when you look at it with the same numbers they were looking at. 13 colonies, largest populations in New York City and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
Exactly.
Can you imagine a recount of the total US votes?
Nate did call one thing right though which was "Trump voters are telling pollsters to f--- off and that's messing up our numbers."
If done solely by the number of popular votes in any place it IS mod rule and the votes aren’t ‘spurious.’ That’s the reason for it and how the EC defeats that effect.
My teenage son's crying libtard girlfriend was demanding a recount and I said, "Why? So Trump can get even more votes?"
LOL! Poor soul.
She'll come around.
Why is Google and MS Edge throwing up warnings that the URL for Issuesinsights is “dangerous and unreliable?” The warning banners are speaking about potential damage to computers, not ideology.
Why is Google and MS Edge throwing up warnings that the URL for Issuesinsights is “dangerous and unreliable?
I guess to them sites like I&I ARE “dangerous and unreliable”.
I must be thick, but I just don’t see the difference between mob rule of the populous or mob rule of representatives. At least mob rule of the populous is not the take over by a group of elitists, which in some locations is what has happened.
The states created fedgov. If they didn’t have a say in it’s operation, most states probably would not have ratified the Constitution....
Need it county by county now to stop the in state STEAL.
Without the guarantees of the electoral college many if not most independent states would never would have applied to become part of the United States in the first place.
To remove such fundamental guarantees now would be a material breach of contract rendering all such agreements null and void.
I think this is what the progressives are really after.
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