The Electoral College was put into the Constitution when it was originally written in 1789, for good reason. It has been more than 200 years since then. The American public has had all that time to decide whether they wanted to keep it. The Constitution has been amended 27 times in all that time, and never once has the public put any significant pressure on their congressmen to propose a Constitutional amendment to change or eliminate the Electoral College.
Clearly most normal Americans are just fine with it. Probably more so today than in previous elections. Clearly a large majority of the American people want to keep it just as it is, and NOT resort to electing a President by popular majority.
Sorry, liberals. I know you have no interest in following the law. But enough normal Americans do, that it is clear that a large majority of them want Trump elected just this way.
But keep please squalling and whining. It's one of the things that got you thrown out of office so hugely on Nov. 8, 2016. Your response seems to be to squall and whine even more. I'm happy with that, because it pretty much guarantees the same result in Nov. 2020.
BULLSHIT.
McClatchy-Marist poll, this week: >> When thinking about future presidential elections, should the Electoral College be abandoned in favor of adopting the popular vote to determine the winner of the presidential election? A majority of registered voters, 52%, think the popular vote should be the deciding factor while 45% say the Electoral College should be the determinant. Three percent are unsure.<<
Politico this month:
PO13A
Do you think the United States should (N=1,012):
- Keep the Electoral College and the current way we elect presidents..... 403 (40%)
- Amend the Constitution to replace the Electoral College with the popular vote, where the candidate with the most votes nationally wins the presidency.... 463 (46%)
PO13B
Do you think the United States should... (N=988):
- Keep the Electoral College and the current way we elect presidents..... 356 (36%)
- Replace the Electoral College with the popular vote, where the candidate with the most votes nationally wins the presidency...........479 (48%)
Gallup 2013: >> Sixty-three percent would abolish this unique, but sometimes controversial, mechanism for electing presidents that was devised by the framers of the Constitution. While constitutional and statutory revisions have been made to the Electoral College since the nation's founding, numerous efforts to abolish it over the last 200+ years have met with little success.
There is even less partisan variation in support for this proposal than there is for term limits, with between 61% and 66% of all major party groups saying they would vote to do away with the Electoral College if they could. Similarly, between 60% and 69% of all major age groups take this position. <<
Gallup 2011: >> Nearly 11 years after the 2000 presidential election brought the idiosyncrasies of the United States' Electoral College into full view, 62% of Americans say they would amend the U.S. Constitution to replace that system for electing presidents with a popular vote system. Barely a third, 35%, say they would keep the Electoral College.
---- about sixty (60) more polls
here.
They say the same thing. So BULLSHIT.