Posted on 05/04/2018 6:41:25 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Among the recent garbled effusions from todays temporary president cheer up; they are all temporary was one that concerned something about which he might not have thought as deeply as the subject merits. During an episode of government of, by, and for Fox & Friends, he said: He won the 2016 election easily but wishes the electoral vote system were replaced by direct election of presidents by popular vote. He favors this because if you were expecting him to offer reasons drawn from political philosophy or constitutional theory, grow up to me, its much easier to win the popular vote.
He added, accidentally stubbing his toe on a truth, that running for president without the Electoral College would involve a totally different campaign. Which, he does not realize, is one reason for retaining the Electoral College.
The presidents interest in all this comes from his festering grievance about losing the popular vote by five times more votes than George W. Bush lost it to Al Gore in 2000. His thinking is as murky as his syntax, but evidently he supposes that under a pure popular-vote system he would have campaigned in, say, indigo California, thereby reducing his opponents huge margin of victory there (30 points). Perhaps. But his California campaigning might have increased her turnout, which was probably reduced by the lack of campaigning there. Who knows?
This we do know: Presidential majorities are built by the Electoral College as it has evolved, adapting to the two-party system. The Electoral College gives the parties a distribution incentive for achieving geographical and ideological breadth while assembling a coalition of states . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...
Says the man kicked off every network he’s ever appeared on. Trump has gotten more done in one year than all of Will’s butt buddies did in 70 years.
Georgie is one of those people Reagan spoke about in 1964 and again in 1980 that were liberal Republicans.
George Will has lost touch with his conservative base and is no longer relevant.
He is VERY JEALOUS and EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL of President Trump.
Why anyone reads or listens to this bitter old man’s garbage and angry articles is beyond me?
As was pointed out: Five or six largest cities in the US would determine the president if it was a democratic election. Three wolves vs two sheep voting as to what’s for dinner, that’s a democracy.
Yes. A popular vote means that states with poor turnout would get underweighted. With the electoral college your States clout is based on how many people reside in your state, not on how many show up on Election Day.
George Will is exactly the type of Republican that let conservatives into the weeds. He’s very angry that most of us know it now.
George Will is to journalism as Hillary Clinton is to politics.
On the other hand, Will’s no neo-con like the smug-arsed Kristol is.
Fake conservative bowtied foureyed a-hole snarks around an irrelevant campaign tidbit President Trump threw to the sharks. Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
Hatred is rotting out George Will's brain...
As Hitlery so ably proved.
I think it's time that Mr. Will spend more time in his box seat at Nationals' Park and less time in his office seat writing this sort of tripe.
George Will is an @$$. His writing at one time was not so sophomoric.
This statement by Will shows he completely misunderstood Trump's comment. If a popular vote system had been in place, the campaigns would have been very different, and it is not a forgone conclusion that Hillary would have won.
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The real problem is that George Will took him seriously, but with Trump he always as an ulterior motive for saying things he knows are popular, but are nonetheless ridiculous. His motive, rubbing salt into Hillary’s still gushing wound she received on November 8th 2016. 8>)
The obsolete pundit who new too little about irony.
Trump was obviously being facetious.
Clinton won the popular race, and complained about the electoral college giving Trump the victory. So, Trump says [paraphrasing]: “Fine, let’s use the popular vote - I’ll win anyway. I’ll just run a different campaign. In fact, it will be easier because I’ll only have to campaign in three states”.
How hard is that to understand?
An atheist snob fop who I guarantee has run his mouth free of charge all his life
He thinks hes Samuel Johnson
“If what Diamond called the Electoral Colleges magnifying lens had been scrapped when the ABA commission called for this, the current presidents 46 percent of the popular vote”
How come everybody pretends that the official numbers are correct? How come nobody ever mentions the *vast* amount of election fraud committed by the dims?
My guess is that if only the legal votes are counted, one per citizen, that Trump won the popular vote by a substantial margin.
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