CNN Guest Host Claims The Electoral College Is Rooted In Slavery

[toobfreak]

CNN Guest Host Claims The Electoral College Is Rooted In Slavery​

Ironically, they might have a point. The electoral college was designed in part to give smaller, less populated states where more blacks live a greater voice.

This way, all 50 states have a say in the outcome, not 1-2.

But more importantly, the state elections are largely popular but the tabulation of FEDERAL elections is by weighted college EXACTLY so that no one state or group can become so dominant as to determine the outcome of every election, the very thing democrats want.

The whole movement to eliminate the college is really a clandestine effort to make elections meaningless.

 

[22lcidw]

That is a historical fact that the EC is rooted in slavery.

John Adams would have won re-election against Virginian Thomas Jefferson in 1800 if it wasn't for the slave-heavy Southern states and the additional EC votes from slaves counting as 3/5 of a citizen.

I just saw a map of Africa and the average IQ's of each nation. Not good. Also, during the founding times in the United States, it was the North that did not want to count slaves as one person.

 

[Alicia J]

LOL you are such a moron, I have always been against those things but 10 years ago your party

Total freaking lie.

You never gave a flying **** about tariffs....because no one in the Republican Party believed in tariffs 10 years ago. The Republican Party always believed in free trade before Trump came along.

Just like you had no problem with mail-in voting 10 years ago. You're just a brainwashed MAGA imbecile who can't think for himself anymore.

 

[22lcidw]

Actually, the 3/5 Compromise was also intended to give Southern states more EC votes as well.

And it definitely worked in their favor in the heavily disputed election of 1800.


As it should. Because the 14th Amendment made former slaves U.S. citizens.

In the 19th century rural areas had more power and the EC helped city areas. Today it is reversed.

 

[Alicia J]

I just saw a map of Africa and the average IQ's of each nation. Not good. Also, during the founding times in the United States, it was the North that did not want to count slaves as one person.

Talk about low IQs. And you're obviously a MAGA racist, like all the rest. No surprise there.

The North didn't want to count slaves as people, that's correct....because many of the Northern delegates wanted to end slavery as part of the new Constitution.

 

[Alicia J]

In the 19th century rural areas had more power and the EC helped city areas. Today it is reversed.

Wrong again, imbecile.

A voter in freaking Wyoming has more power than a voter in Los Angeles. You are just stupid in every way imaginable.

 

[22lcidw]

Talk about low IQs. And you're obviously a MAGA racist, like all the rest. No surprise there.

The North didn't want to count slaves as people, that's correct....because many of the Northern delegates wanted to end slavery as part of the new Constitution.

The calling out of people as racists and bigots is disgraceful. You do not know me and whatever I have done in life for social justice. There are endless numbers of people who live far from the problems and wipe their hands of any issues as they approve of the tried and true racist/bigot script. There are people who have scars who promoted requests from African Americans to their fellow white Progressive socialist friends and residents who were shunned from them. The same Progressive Socialist white citizens who left those neighborhoods when the first African Americans moved in and then increased in huge numbers. For me, it was no more than bark, then bite. For you its feel-good time as long as times are good.

 

[22lcidw]

Wrong again, imbecile.

A voter in freaking Wyoming has more power than a voter in Los Angeles. You are just stupid in every way imaginable.

That is today. It was not in the 19th century. The cities needed the EC more than semi-rural and rural areas as the population centers were different. The EC is designed as it should. It does not mean it is shortchanging you. It means we get a chance to breathe and reconsider, before we enter new environs. In this case, communism.

 

[Rawley]

"inflate" huh? So you agree with your esteemed colleague Alicia that slaves should not have been counted at all as persons when determining a state's population.

Wow. Sounds pretty racist, but that might just be me.

Greenbeard crickets

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Total freaking lie.

You never gave a flying **** about tariffs....because no one in the Republican Party believed in tariffs 10 years ago. The Republican Party always believed in free trade before Trump came along.

Just like you had no problem with mail-in voting 10 years ago. You're just a brainwashed MAGA imbecile who can't think for himself anymore.

I notice you ignored my points like a good little lying lemming.

 

[mudwhistle]

Ironically, they might have a point. The electoral college was designed in part to give smaller, less populated states where more blacks live a greater voice.

This way, all 50 states have a say in the outcome, not 1-2.

But more importantly, the state elections are largely popular but the tabulation of FEDERAL elections is by weighted college EXACTLY so that no one state or group can become so dominant as to determine the outcome of every election, the very thing democrats want.

The whole movement to eliminate the college is really a clandestine effort to make elections meaningless.

The electoral college was designed to thwart mob rule.

Only time it becomes a problem is when it doesn't work for Democrats......then it becomes racist.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

but 10 years ago your party wasnt cheating like they do now

Shut up, liar. You're embarrassing yourself.

 

[mudwhistle]

Ironically, they might have a point. The electoral college was designed in part to give smaller, less populated states where more blacks live a greater voice.

This way, all 50 states have a say in the outcome, not 1-2.

But more importantly, the state elections are largely popular but the tabulation of FEDERAL elections is by weighted college EXACTLY so that no one state or group can become so dominant as to determine the outcome of every election, the very thing democrats want.

The whole movement to eliminate the college is really a clandestine effort to make elections meaningless.

 

[mudwhistle]

Here you go, the EC’s origin story:

“The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.”

Keep at it and someday you’ll know enough American history and civics to pass the citizenship test.

Now try pointing to this for me and show me were it is in the Constitution.

The problem with you leftists is you're so busy trying to rewrite history you cannot exist in the real world anymore.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The Electoral College was heavily influenced and informed by slavery when the Constitution was written. Even more so, the apportionment of congressional districts. The way the slaves were counted was a key debate between the people who would become the Democratic Party, and those who Opposed the people who wuold become the Democratic Party.

The future Democrats wanted their slaves counted as 100% people, while their opponents wanted slaves to be recognized as non-participants in the United States system, much like Native Tribal people. Recognizing slaves for purposes of apportioning districts and electors would reward slave-holding by future Democrats.

But that does not mean that the Electoral College is then as evil as slavery. That is absurd.

Argue that it is wrong in the modern times, fine. But arguing that it is wrong, because it was was part of a flawed negotiating process in the 1780's is really reaching.

 

[eagle7-31]

The Electoral College was heavily influenced and informed by slavery when the Constitution was written. Even more so, the apportionment of congressional districts. The way the slaves were counted was a key debate between the people who would become the Democratic Party, and those who Opposed the people who wuold become the Democratic Party.

The future Democrats wanted their slaves counted as 100% people, while their opponents wanted slaves to be recognized as non-participants in the United States system, much like Native Tribal people. Recognizing slaves for purposes of apportioning districts and electors would reward slave-holding by future Democrats.

But that does not mean that the Electoral College is then as evil as slavery. That is absurd.

Argue that it is wrong in the modern times, fine. But arguing that it is wrong, because it was was part of a flawed negotiating process in the 1780's is really reaching.

The EC was set up because the union was made up of states, less central authority. Using 21st century values to argue for or against the 18th century values is meaningless. The US is republic not a direct democracy. The left wants a bunch radicals in a few major cities running the whole country. The left wants a one party leftist state either minimal or no opposition. They just don't have the stones to say so directly.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The EC was in ented to protect slavers and slavery and to keep freakish leaders of minority cults out of the White House.

I think we can safely say it is now obsolete on both counts.

 

[kyzr]

Wrong again, imbecile.
A voter in freaking Wyoming has more power than a voter in Los Angeles. You are just stupid in every way imaginable.

So when are you moving to Wyoming to learn the Cowgirl position?

 

[kyzr]

The Electoral College was heavily influenced and informed by slavery when the Constitution was written. Even more so, the apportionment of congressional districts. The way the slaves were counted was a key debate between the people who would become the Democratic Party, and those who Opposed the people who would become the Democratic Party.
The future Democrats wanted their slaves counted as 100% people, while their opponents wanted slaves to be recognized as non-participants in the United States system, much like Native Tribal people. Recognizing slaves for purposes of apportioning districts and electors would reward slave-holding by future Democrats.
But that does not mean that the Electoral College is then as evil as slavery. That is absurd.
Argue that it is wrong in the modern times, fine. But arguing that it is wrong, because it was was part of a flawed negotiating process in the 1780's is really reaching.

Democrats are going to need a lot of excuses in the coming years.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Democrats are going to need a lot of excuses in the coming years.

A job you seem overqualified for.