This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

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This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea​

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is and could be waiting for weeks.

issuesinsights.com

11 Nov 2024

Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
~Snip~
The Electoral College forces elections to be national, and for the candidates’ appeal to be widespread. And it empowers smaller states by giving them more influence over the winner than they ever would in a national popular vote.
That’s all by design, and it’s brilliant.
There’s another problem with a national popular vote – it would fundamentally undermine the founding principle of this country – that we are a Union of States.


Commentary:
Trump has won the bragworthy "National Popular Vote" by 2.5 million votes, becoming the first GOP president to do so in 20 years and only the second to do so since 1988.
This should put an end to all of the Democrats' tears about the Electoral College "rigging elections."
Their reasoning is simple. Historically, when you look at it with the same numbers our fore fathers were looking at; 13 colonies. The largest populations were in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
The electorl College ensures that those states in "Fly-Over Country" with less populations are able to have their say in elections.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea​

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is and could be waiting for weeks.

issuesinsights.com

11 Nov 2024

Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
~Snip~
The Electoral College forces elections to be national, and for the candidates’ appeal to be widespread. And it empowers smaller states by giving them more influence over the winner than they ever would in a national popular vote.
That’s all by design, and it’s brilliant.
There’s another problem with a national popular vote – it would fundamentally undermine the founding principle of this country – that we are a Union of States.


Commentary:
Trump has won the bragworthy "National Popular Vote" by 2.5 million votes, becoming the first GOP president to do so in 20 years and only the second to do so since 1988.
This should put an end to all of the Democrats' tears about the Electoral College "rigging elections."
Their reasoning is simple. Historically, when you look at it with the same numbers our fore fathers were looking at; 13 colonies. The largest populations were in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
The electorl College ensures that those states in "Fly-Over Country" with less populations are able to have their say in elections.

The electoral college prevents one party tyranny, that's why the Democrats want to abolish it.

 

[berg80]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

It's because the United States is not a democracy but a constitutional republic.

That means the majority does not rule and even the smallest state has equal voice.

SMILE

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

States with small populations still exist. So that condition hasn't changed. What's in it for them?

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea​

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is and could be waiting for weeks.

issuesinsights.com

11 Nov 2024

Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
~Snip~
The Electoral College forces elections to be national, and for the candidates’ appeal to be widespread. And it empowers smaller states by giving them more influence over the winner than they ever would in a national popular vote.
That’s all by design, and it’s brilliant.
There’s another problem with a national popular vote – it would fundamentally undermine the founding principle of this country – that we are a Union of States.


Commentary:
Trump has won the bragworthy "National Popular Vote" by 2.5 million votes, becoming the first GOP president to do so in 20 years and only the second to do so since 1988.
This should put an end to all of the Democrats' tears about the Electoral College "rigging elections."
Their reasoning is simple. Historically, when you look at it with the same numbers our fore fathers were looking at; 13 colonies. The largest populations were in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
The electorl College ensures that those states in "Fly-Over Country" with less populations are able to have their say in elections.

"Well the rest of the world does it differently..."
God, what a dumb argument against the electoral college. Some of the arguments make sense, but this one is so lazy.

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

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It's because the United States is not a democracy but a constitutional republic.

That means the majority does not rule and even the smallest state has equal voice.

SMILE

Constitutional federal democratic republic if you wanna be super duper technical about it.

 

[Damaged Eagle]

Constitutional federal democratic republic if you wanna be super duper technical about it.

We'll keep it the way it is because living in District 12 isn't my idea of much of a life.

SMILE

 

[Concerned American]

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea​

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is and could be waiting for weeks.

issuesinsights.com

11 Nov 2024

Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
~Snip~
The Electoral College forces elections to be national, and for the candidates’ appeal to be widespread. And it empowers smaller states by giving them more influence over the winner than they ever would in a national popular vote.
That’s all by design, and it’s brilliant.
There’s another problem with a national popular vote – it would fundamentally undermine the founding principle of this country – that we are a Union of States.


Commentary:
Trump has won the bragworthy "National Popular Vote" by 2.5 million votes, becoming the first GOP president to do so in 20 years and only the second to do so since 1988.
This should put an end to all of the Democrats' tears about the Electoral College "rigging elections."
Their reasoning is simple. Historically, when you look at it with the same numbers our fore fathers were looking at; 13 colonies. The largest populations were in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
The electorl College ensures that those states in "Fly-Over Country" with less populations are able to have their say in elections.

I wish we had EC elections by county in WA. It would look much different.

 

[SeaMajor7]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

How about NO.

 

[BluesLegend]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

Move to China and you won't have to worry about it.

 

[BluesLegend]

I wish we had EC elections by county in WA. It would look much different.

70% of the land mass is hard core RED!

 

[toobfreak]

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea​

Pure genius, because it gives voice to ALL of the states glazing over any one state or single group of people running away with an election so that the whole country is better represented. In a pure democracy, only the mob majority is represented, even if it is only 51%.

1. Trump won the Elector College by a wide margin.
2. Trump won the Popular Vote by a million more people than Hillary.
3. Trump spanked Joe's ass.
4. Trump made a fool of Kamala.
5. Trump laughed in the faces of Jack Smith, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg and Fanni Willis.
6. Trump took government lawfare and rammed it right back down their own throats.
7. Trump even dodged an assassin's bullet.

If Biden, Harris and Obumma were the Three Stooges, their names would be:
Failed, Fooled, and Fallen Over.

 

[MarathonMike]

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea​

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is and could be waiting for weeks.

issuesinsights.com

11 Nov 2024

Every four years, various “experts” whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of “electors” from each state get to choose the next president. This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation’s founders.
On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying “We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world. We should scrap it.”
The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades. The latest gambit is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states that sign on agree to cast their electoral votes based on who won the national popular vote. If states representing 270 electoral votes were to sign the compact, our presidential elections would be decided by the popular vote. So far, they have 209 electoral votes.
Well, what’s wrong with that? Why have a system where someone can lose the popular vote and still be president, as Donald Trump did in 2016 and George W. Bush did in 2000?
Think about it for just a minute. If we didn’t have an Electoral College, we would still be waiting to learn who the next president is.
~Snip~
The Electoral College forces elections to be national, and for the candidates’ appeal to be widespread. And it empowers smaller states by giving them more influence over the winner than they ever would in a national popular vote.
That’s all by design, and it’s brilliant.
There’s another problem with a national popular vote – it would fundamentally undermine the founding principle of this country – that we are a Union of States.


Commentary:
Trump has won the bragworthy "National Popular Vote" by 2.5 million votes, becoming the first GOP president to do so in 20 years and only the second to do so since 1988.
This should put an end to all of the Democrats' tears about the Electoral College "rigging elections."
Their reasoning is simple. Historically, when you look at it with the same numbers our fore fathers were looking at; 13 colonies. The largest populations were in New York City, Philadelphia and Boston? One of two others, maybe?
They did not want those mobs from those cities to be the sole deciders of the future of the 13 - the United States of America. Today, it’s NYC, LA, Chicago, etc. but the principle is the same.
The electorl College ensures that those states in "Fly-Over Country" with less populations are able to have their say in elections.

The Electoral College solves the same problem today as it did 2 centuries ago. It does not allow a couple of highly populous powerful states to dictate to the rest of the country who the President is. The brilliance of the The Founders cannot be overstated.

 

[toobfreak]

70% of the land mass is hard core RED!

Maybe even 80-85%.

 

[Concerned American]

Someone asked where Harpy Eagle/Gulping Gator was as he hasn't been heard from since before the election. I haven't seen Dante/Procrustes Stretched since early October. I wonder which one of these noobs are these two's new alter egos. I think that Dr. Phosphorus might be Procrustes/Dante

 

[LeftofLeft]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

States with smaller populations- all the more reason to have the EC.

 

[Captain Caveman]

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It's because the United States is not a democracy but a constitutional republic.

That means the majority does not rule and even the smallest state has equal voice.

SMILE

Throughout American history, the US has operated as a Republic and Democracy. Why folk fight over the word 'republic', only God knows why. The US Government in DC represents a Democrat Republic.

 

[airplanemechanic]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

If you can't win the game, change the rules, huh?

 

[airplanemechanic]

Throughout American history, the US has operated as a Republic and Democracy. Why folk fight over the word 'republic', only God knows why. The US Government in DC represents a Democrat Republic.

I'll tell you why. Because fucking democrats keep bitching about losing elections for president while getting more of the popular vote. So republicans REPEATEDLY remind them that our country is not a strict democracy, it is a republic. This popular vote means NOTHING for presidential elections.

 

[HeyNorm]

The EC was the best of a number of poor compromises the founders came up with to appease states with small populations at the beginning of the Republic. It's an anachronism we need to rid ourselves of.

Anytime, any blue state can allocate their electors by the congressional district won by either candidate.

Oh dear, they don’t. Tells ya something