The Electoral College

[Rexx Taylor]

President Trump wins in a LANDSLIDE without that liberal HELLHOLE of California!!

thats what the left is up to,,,,odds are they will still have more votes when the GOP wins in 2020, then all the snowflakes will be crying again cause they got 4 million more votes (yah,,being anyone can vote in California, no ID required}

Your aviator creeps me out ...

Aviator?

dont Aviators fly planes?

Do you have one and why is she scared of it?

not a full size plane, no planes are allowed to park where I live

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

why should one state, where the average IQ of a very concentrated area {Los Angeles}is lower than the IQ of mentally challenged guinea pig,,decide who will be the next president?,,thats what Hillary and Pelosi believe,,. You take California out of the picture, and Trump wins by a lot of votes !

President Trump wins in a LANDSLIDE without that liberal HELLHOLE of California!!

thats what the left is up to,,,,odds are they will still have more votes when the GOP wins in 2020, then all the snowflakes will be crying again cause they got 4 million more votes (yah,,being anyone can vote in California, no ID required}

Your aviator creeps me out ...

i didnt know the abdominal snowman got his hands on rudolph.

Abdominal? Does that make your stomach cold?

 

[frigidweirdo]

This is why the Electoral College remains an important part of our Presidential election system.




In their infinite wisdom, the founders of our country created a

structure called the "Electoral College" as a control system and to

ensure the individual states were fairly represented. Otherwise one

or two densely populated areas would speak for the whole of the

nation. It was not created as a device to favor Democrats,

Republicans, Whigs, Tories or any other political affiliation. It

was created as a system of "checks and balances" to guard against

any small vocal area, with a specific agenda, speaking for the whole of the nation.


The following list of statistics should put an end to the argument

as to why the Electoral College makes sense.


THERE ARE 3,141 COUNTIES IN THE UNITED STATES.


TRUMP WON 3,084 OF THEM.

CLINTON WON 57.


THERE ARE 62 COUNTIES IN NEW YORK STATE.


TRUMP WON 46 OF THEM.

CLINTON WON 16.


CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE BY APPROX. 1.5 MILLION VOTES.


IN THE 5 COUNTIES THAT ENCOMPASS NYC (BRONX, BROOKLYN, MANHATTAN,RICHMOND & QUEENS) CLINTON RECEIVED WELL OVER 2 MILLION MORE VOTES THAN TRUMP.


IN OTHER WORDS, THESE FIVE (5) COUNTIES ALONE, MORE THAN ACCOUNTED FOR CLINTON WINNING THE POPULAR VOTE FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!!!


THESE 5 COUNTIES COMPRISE 319 SQUARE MILES.

THE UNITED STATES IS COMPRISED OF 3,797,000 SQUARE MILES.


WHEN YOU HAVE A COUNTRY THAT ENCOMPASSES ALMOST 4 MILLION SQUARE MILES OF TERRITORY, IT WOULD BE LUDICROUS TO EVEN SUGGEST THAT THE VOTE OF THOSE WHO INHABIT A MERE 319 SQUARE MILES SHOULD DICTATE THE OUTCOME OF A NATIONAL ELECTION.


LARGE, DENSELY POPULATED CITIES (NYC, CHICAGO, LA, ETC.) DO NOT AND SHOULD NOT SPEAK FOR THE REST OF OUR COUNTRY...AND SOMEHOW THE GENIUSES WHO FOUNDED OUR COUNTRY UNDERSTOOD THIS AND CREATED A SYSTEM TO AVOID THAT CIRCUMSTANCE.


AND NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.


DO SHARE THIS... IT NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD.

Bullshit. The Electoral College was designed for an agrarian society. It gives people in rural areas more voting power than those in urban areas. People in the US in rural areas tend to be less educated, more religious, more bigoted due to their limited life experience, and more conservative than those in urban areas.

In 1790, 95% of the US population lived in rural areas. Only 5% lived in urban areas. Today, 75% of the population lives in urban areas and only 25 percent live in rural areas. When you give those 25% more than one vote per person, you end up with less educated, conservative, religious, bigoted people having more say as to who becomes president.

That is why in the past two elections where the electoral college decided the election rather than the popular vote, we have ended up with Republican presidents. The Electoral College skews the results in favor of the Right. This is not the scenario the founded fathers envisioned: they did not envision skewing the election to favor one side.

https://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/table-4.pdf

Nice try, but NO CIGAR!

Your last claim has a bit of truth in it. The Electoral College, more often than not, saves the rural areas from the large urban areas because the large urban areas are infested with LIBERAL USEFUL IDIOTS! Liberal useful idiots always vote for Democrats!

However, the founding fathers had no idea that liberal useful idiots would flock together in big cities. They evidently wrongly assumed that some would be hard working farmers and ranch hands.

You are a liberal useful idiot.

Ahh but to liberals, they are only helping the rural areas be better people by telling them how to live their lives.

And the right don't? They don't preach morality, their own form of morality which says you can't do this, that or the other?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Bottom line retards, if you want to eliminate the electoral college make an amendment and get 37 States to agree. Other wise quit whining about our system.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Bottom line retards, if you want to eliminate the electoral college make an amendment and get 37 States to agree. Other wise quit whining about our system.

Get 37 states to agree to disenfranchise themselves and agree to be dictated to by New York and California.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Bottom line retards, if you want to eliminate the electoral college make an amendment and get 37 States to agree. Other wise quit whining about our system.

Get 37 states to agree to disenfranchise themselves and agree to be dictated to by New York and California.

That's showing such a lack of understanding about how other political systems work.

I'm guessing you're just picking and choosing any argument you think might work, rather than actually looking at reality.

With the Electoral College only 12 states really get to vote.

If a Republican votes in California, their vote doesn't matter.

With Proportional Representation their vote would matter. Their vote could decide how many seats a political party gets.

Not only that it would increase the number of political parties into the US system which would add a lot more oversight and give a lot more choice to the people when voting.

In Germany they have traditional right and traditional left main parties with further left and further right and a centerist party in there too, so people can actually choose.

If a farmer in Wyoming wants to vote for a party that will protect his interests, he can probably find enough farmers out there to get representation in Washington. As it is, he has to choose between one of two parties who don't really give much of a **** about him.

 

[Slyhunter]

California just voted on becoming a Sanctuary State. Soon, maybe, they'll vote to succeed. And if they do, our country will be better off.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Bottom line retards, if you want to eliminate the electoral college make an amendment and get 37 States to agree. Other wise quit whining about our system.

Get 37 states to agree to disenfranchise themselves and agree to be dictated to by New York and California.

That's showing such a lack of understanding about how other political systems work.

I'm guessing you're just picking and choosing any argument you think might work, rather than actually looking at reality.

With the Electoral College only 12 states really get to vote.

If a Republican votes in California, their vote doesn't matter.

With Proportional Representation their vote would matter. Their vote could decide how many seats a political party gets.

Not only that it would increase the number of political parties into the US system which would add a lot more oversight and give a lot more choice to the people when voting.

In Germany they have traditional right and traditional left main parties with further left and further right and a centerist party in there too, so people can actually choose.

If a farmer in Wyoming wants to vote for a party that will protect his interests, he can probably find enough farmers out there to get representation in Washington. As it is, he has to choose between one of two parties who don't really give much of a **** about him.

Your complaints mean what?

The only way to change it is to get 37 states to agree, how will you do that?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Bottom line retards, if you want to eliminate the electoral college make an amendment and get 37 States to agree. Other wise quit whining about our system.

Get 37 states to agree to disenfranchise themselves and agree to be dictated to by New York and California.

That's showing such a lack of understanding about how other political systems work.

I'm guessing you're just picking and choosing any argument you think might work, rather than actually looking at reality.

With the Electoral College only 12 states really get to vote.

If a Republican votes in California, their vote doesn't matter.

With Proportional Representation their vote would matter. Their vote could decide how many seats a political party gets.

Not only that it would increase the number of political parties into the US system which would add a lot more oversight and give a lot more choice to the people when voting.

In Germany they have traditional right and traditional left main parties with further left and further right and a centerist party in there too, so people can actually choose.

If a farmer in Wyoming wants to vote for a party that will protect his interests, he can probably find enough farmers out there to get representation in Washington. As it is, he has to choose between one of two parties who don't really give much of a **** about him.

12 States do NOT in fact elect the President as proven by the last election where Democratic States voted republican. No 12 States have enough electoral votes to reach 270 dumb ass. However with popular vote 2 States and a few big cities would in fact elect the President. And again for the slow and stupid the ONLY way you get rid of the electoral college is by amendment. And the only way you get proportional voting for the President is to convince 48 more States to allot Electoral votes by Congressional district. And then likely you give Congress the power to select the President.