Posted on 02/19/2012 5:11:45 AM PST by Kaslin
The votes of the electors continue to be a practical way to dissipate regional dominance over the whole nation.
If Mit were the Republican nominee, there's little chance a new House of Representatives would elect him anyway.
IMHO you are dead on. “The big shiny city on the hill” will be a collection of large, power mad, parasitic and dependent slum cities sucking every last resource from this once great land through crooked regressive progressive politics. They will only produce crime, murder and fraudulent ballots.
Now to find a coffee and chill as I scared myself.
“THe “EC” is the last small vestige of the original republic of 1787. It’s the only thing an original founder would recognize if we could re animate one of them now.”
All the more important to extinguish it, then.
Progress is on the march! Power to the people!
Democracy Now, as they shout.
Sad, really.
Simple.
Simple.
Simple solution.
Change your formula so that there is an ODD number of
electors instead of an even number.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
Do you recall that a few years back, a few in the media and a few politicans includinh Hilary Clinton made a few noises about the Electoral College being obsolete and Presidents shpuld be elected by popular vote? At that point in time, it did not resonate and was dropped.
Yes, but like any good communist goal it will keep coming back until it is the law of the land. These people never stop undermining liberty. They just lay low for a while and try again.
The electoral college in fact is the screen that surrounds the true power that is hidden in this country that has yet to emerge once again: The States.
What can tell no to the President, the Congress and even overrule the Supreme Court? 38 states acting in unison.
That is true power, that nothing can stop.
We have 29 states fighting Obamacare right now. If we only had 9 more.
And as far as it happening or not happening goes,I never thought that people who consider themselves to be Americans would put a muslim sob like obamain the white House.
I cannot imagine the small states (vote wise) to allow this to happen.
I personally felt that there would be more ruckas raised about the way obamacare than there was. in the past holy hell would have been raised until it was rescinded, but, that was then and this is now.The more corrupt we become as a Nation, the more servile to Government we become as a people.
The Electoral College actually gives the people of the smaller states a disproportionate voice in electing the president. This is due to the 2 Senators that every state has while representation in the House is proportional to population.
It’s a small advantage but an important one.
Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, Hawaii, or Montana.
I would add, SD UT WY ID NE NM and there are probably some more. Two of those have far less than a million population.
Except I don’t live in Vermont.....
Get rid of the EC and states like NH, VT, NM, NV, and other small population states would NEVER see a presidential contender.
Instead, NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and other large cities would elect the president, and most libs/lefties live in large cities.
I just hope the American public is not stupid enough to get rid of the EC. The Founders knew what they were doing and designed it to be cumbersome. It works.
GOP chairman Gleason was the main factor in opposition to this legislation which Gov. Corbett had already pledged to sign
I was at a town hall meeting in March of 2011, right after the pubbies had won the house, senate and gubbernors office in PA and my new congress critter and senator were full of piss and vinegar and told us how the re-apportionment of electoral college votes as well as Voter ID were both slam dunks and would happen by the end of the summer of 2011.
It is now almost a year later, and Pileggi's office now won't even return my emails, my senator cringes when I go into her local office and she is there and the only one that doesn't hide is Congress Critter George Dunbar, because he kept his word and the house passed the Voter ID bill but it is stalled by Pileggi {for some unknown reason}.
The philly rinos in the PA senate are still in control, they should be voted out.
Hear, hear!
It ‘could’ lead to a college football playoff system.
Eliminating the Electoral College will enslave the whole nation to NYC, LA, Chicago and Houston.
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