The Electoral College is as outdated as the 2nd Amendment

[Lakhota]

/——/ So why isn’t Trump in the White House? Bwhahahaha

Because they hadn't yet perfected their coup in time to save Trump - but they are working overtime to perfect it for 2022 and 2024.

 

[surada]

Presidents should be elected based on national popular votes - not electoral votes based on acreage and just rubber-stamped by partisans!

Popular vote - not acres!

In each state, whichever party garners a majority of popular votes, regardless of how narrow the margin, wins all the electoral votes. By forcing residents in each state ultimately to vote as a block, the system is supposed to ensure that small states' interests are not drowned out by those of larger states.

U.S. Electoral Vote Map

Rural areas and small towns wouldn't have much say in who was elected. Oddly enough in 2012 Trump ranted and raved against the Electoral College.

 

[Lastamender]

Because they hadn't yet perfected their coup in time to save Trump - but they are working overtime to perfect it for 2022 and 2024.

Starting a conspiracy theory?

 

[Cellblock2429]

Because they hadn't yet perfected their coup in time to save Trump - but they are working overtime to perfect it for 2022 and 2024.

/——-/ Curses, foiled again.

 

[Lastamender]

Rural areas and small towns wouldn't have much say in who was elected. Oddly enough in 2012 Trump ranted and raved against the Electoral College.

Obama was against gay marriage but he evolved. Trump should have that option.

 

[XponentialChaos]

If/when demographic changes flip Texas to blue, then we’ll see Republicans come to the table in changing the electoral college.

 

[Lastamender]

If/when demographic changes flip Texas to blue, then we’ll see Republicans come to the table in changing the electoral college.

Hispanics are the new conservatives. Democrats are losing their vote.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Hispanics are the new conservatives.

Except they vote blue.

 

[westwall]

Except they vote blue.

Not in Florida they didn't.

 

[XponentialChaos]

Not in Florida they didn't.

Correct. Democrats need to stop trying to flip Florida.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

/—-/ We would be ruled by Southern California and downstate New York.

That's exactly what the left wants.

 

[Lakhota]

Electing a president is about people - not acreage.

 

[westwall]

Electing a president is about people - not acreage.

Correct. That's why the EC makes sure that ALL the people have a vote that matters.

 

[hadit]

Long past time for this old dinosaur to die! Should be based on people - not acres!

So amend the Constitution. That's how you change it.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

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The slaves were freed. Blacks can vote. There is one person, one vote.
Except for Dem cheating, obviously.

 

[Sunsettommy]

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False it has existed since day one of the ratified Constitution as shown here:

• Clause 2 Electors
• 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.
  • ArtII.S1.C2.1 Overview of Electors Appointment Clause
  • ArtII.S1.C2.2 Historical Background on Electors Appointments Clause
  • ArtII.S1.C2.3 State Discretion Over Selection of Electors
  • ArtII.S1.C2.4 Legal Status of Electors
  • ArtII.S1.C2.5 Discretion of Electors to Choose a President

• Clause 3 Electoral College Count
• The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.

LINK

 

[The Duke]

You can just smell the scorching butthurt of the OP in this thrread!

Fuck, Democrats went out and did a blatantly unConstitutional thing just after this.

What was it called?

"Interstate Popular Vote Compact"

Yeah, patently against the Constitution.

"
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3:

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

Overview of the Compact Clause

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[Sunsettommy]

California only has 55 electoral votes. However, all states should just shut the fuck up when someone wins the national popular vote!

You seem oblivious to this FACT that getting electors are based on winning EACH individual states popular vote thus it is a winner take all method being done at the state level the proper place to get the electors.

 

[dblack]

I was thinking - if Democrats try to end the EC without due process (aka Constitutional Amendment) they might get to find out what the 2nd is all about.