I have no doubt that Kamala Harris will win the Popular Vote - but I worry about the Electoral College Vote.

I would appreciate some credible feedback. I'm concerned that the EC may be a "spoiler" again. What do you think?
If I were you I wouldn't make any bets on the popular vote. In 2016 Hillary was going to big states like California and New York to rack up the popular votes while Trump visited the swing states. If you look at the polls, even though Harris will win these big states by comfortable margins, they are much lower margins than what Hillary had in 2016.
 
I do worry bout Harris winning the popular vote and getting screwed like Clinton. We can't afford that now.
I’d worry about that too. Especially since she didn’t win a single Democrat primary.
 
Yeah that's what's wrong with it, the majority of Americans have never and would never put Trump anywhere near the WH.
Why not? They put a senile, incestuous pedophile in there.
 
Los Angeles County has more people than any of 40 states. That is, only 10 states have more population than Los Angeles County does alone.

That means when Democrats have large majorities in the largest population centers plus that's where the illegals mostly congregate, the popular vote from those relatively few large population centers can be more than all the rest of the country combined.

The EC was established by the Founders to prevent most of the country being disenfranchised by a few large urban centers looking to their own interests and not caring about anybody else. The large population areas still have an advantage but not as much advantage. The EC at least gives everybody a voice in who will be President.

It isn't a spoiler. It is good government.

And several well known Democrats have suggested they'll do away with it if they ever get the chance to do so. If the education system was still educating instead of mostly indoctrinating these days, the huge majority of Americans would know why the EC is the only justifiable system for electing the President.

Also the Democrats want a larger Supreme Court so long as it is a Democrat appointing the new justices. I'm pretty sure if Trump is elected in November, they will NOT approve enlarging the Supreme Court.

Of course if a totalitarian government is established none of this will matter. The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and all the protections they provide will in all likelihood be history.
Sorry but it has the unintended consequences of disenfrancing large urban areas.

US form of voting and representation is showing its age at this stage. Even when US was setting up Iraq they favoured a more EU country style.

Biggest problem with US system is FPTP (First past the post), it is an horrendous system which creates duopoly in government...
 
Sorry but it has the unintended consequences of disenfrancing large urban areas.
I think we'd all understand the EC better if we tried to get an amendment passed eliminating it. Small rural states would reject it for the same reason it was necessary in the first place.
US form of voting and representation is showing its age at this stage. Even when US was setting up Iraq they favoured a more EU country style.

Biggest problem with US system is FPTP (First past the post), it is an horrendous system which creates duopoly in government...
Couldn't agree more here.
 
I don't need this explained to me. The president should be elected by the vote of the people. Not electors That's democracy and if trump was to lose after winning the popular vote, we'd never hear the end of it from those like you. Furthermore, if that was to happen you would definitely see republicans pushing to end the electoral college and YOU would be one of them.

The US is not a democracy. It is a representative Republic.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America...and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God...

Any of that ring a bell?
 
Yeah, that's a concern. The electoral college needs to be abolished. Name another elected office that is determined by electoral votes. The local dog catcher is elected by popuar vote, but not the president. It's stupid. So it is not how elections are done if every other elected official wins by popular vote.
You'd better get on that, you know, Constitutional amendment and all. That's how you abolish it.
 
I do worry bout Harris winning the popular vote and getting screwed like Clinton. We can't afford that now.
Then she'd better get the votes that actually count.
 
Sorry but it has the unintended consequences of disenfrancing large urban areas.

US form of voting and representation is showing its age at this stage. Even when US was setting up Iraq they favoured a more EU country style.

Biggest problem with US system is FPTP (First past the post), it is an horrendous system which creates duopoly in government...
Nobody is disenfranchised by giving the smaller states a voice in who will be President of the entire country. Most of the country will be disenfranchised by doing away with the EC.

We have already seen the benefits of a good President--Trump--even with a hostile Congress. And we have certainly seen the detriment to the country with an incompetent or bad President this past four years even with enough opposition from Congress to prevent him from doing as much damage as he would otherwise have done.

We do not want a very few large population areas having all the power to choose who will be President.
 
Yeah, that's a concern. The electoral college needs to be abolished. Name another elected office that is determined by electoral votes. The local dog catcher is elected by popuar vote, but not the president. It's stupid. So it is not how elections are done if every other elected official wins by popular vote.

If you can get the cotus changed, then have at it
 
I would appreciate some credible feedback. I'm concerned that the EC may be a "spoiler" again. What do you think?
Absolutely. Closer to the propaganda closer the democracks. Thank God for our founding fathers, we must not let los Angeles dictate
 
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Harris has dropped to +1.7 in aggregate polling.

At this rate it's absolutely possible she could lose the popular vote.

Even though winning it doesn't count for anything... if she loses the popular vote too, there is going to be some calamitous and vitriolic "soul searching" at the DNC.

It may shatter the party.
 
Yeah, that's a concern. The electoral college needs to be abolished. Name another elected office that is determined by electoral votes. The local dog catcher is elected by popuar vote, but not the president. It's stupid. So it is not how elections are done if every other elected official wins by popular vote.
In other words large minority population centers can't vote for more free stuff wah!
 
Of course, if you managed to abolish the EC you’d take away any voice from a lot of states. New York, California, and a couple other states would determine every election.

And, democrats wouldn’t be so keen on popular vote if they all voted Republican.

The problem isn’t the EC anyway, as technically EC IS proportional. The problem is they capped the number of representatives at 400. Technically, you can have 1 representative for every 30,000 people. Right now we have one for every 747,000 people.

California technically could have 1300 representatives, but our buildings would have to get MUCH larger to hold all those people lol.
 
Why not? They put a senile, incestuous pedophile in there.
Yeah this pos.
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