Michael Dukakis to Democrats: Fight to Abolish Electoral College

“I’ve never met one and I’ve been a citizen of this state 78 years”.

Washington’s Bret Chiafolo and Colorado’s Michael Baca hope at least 37 of their GOP colleagues will abandon Trump and force the House into picking the next president instead, Politico said Monday. He also was Trump’s campaign finance chair in Florida.

“We’d compete there”, he said. He boldly asserted that without the Electoral College he would have beaten Ms Clinton even more decisively.

For now, Beck says his best advice is to accept that the contest is over and watch for the announcement of cabinet positions. The Associated Press estimates there are more than 4 million votes left to be counted.

Trump’s statement that the Electoral College “brings all the states into play” seems to ring a bit hollow, since in practice the victor is determined by a few swing states that happen to be divided politically.

In 1988, Dukakis lost the popular vote to George H.W. Bush by 7 million votes.

So, what’s it all about, Harriet? However, we have an electoral college, and so it’s state polls that matter in predicting who will win the presidency.

The future president has vented before about the presidential selection system outlined in the U.S. Constitution.

Assuming there were voter corruptions in these states, they would be contained there by the number of the electors already assigned by virtue of the Electoral College system. Which means it’s determined by population. Many national pollsters got the turnout models wrong in some key states. For example, California has 55, while the District of Columbia has three.

In New York, Project Veritas Action undercover cameras caught Alan Schulkin, the commissioner of the city Board of Elections, at a teachers union party in October admitting that New York City has widespread voter fraud.

The Trump campaign’s California communications director, Jon Cordova, was asked this week if Ms Clinton would have beaten his candidate if it was the popular vote that mattered: “No, absolutely not”, he responded.

Americans take to the ballot to help in electing the President and his Vice not directly but through a rather sieved process of choosing electors that will in part choose through pledges the next president.

Had Hillary won, the Electoral College would not be the issue. These days, most of the electors are party activists who are given this symbolic honor as a reward for service.

In America, 270 electors out of 530 elect the president and Vice President. It all comes down to the liberal absentee and mail-in voting laws prevalent in these states.

The Electoral College is a marvel of a vast, brilliant political design; purposefully conceived to hold together the benefits of the representative republic that is America. But she did get to vote in 2012. “It was divisive and angry”, she said.

What is awesome about last week’s election is the reaction by Hillary supporters.

“Our constitutional democracy enshrines the peaceful transfer of power and we don’t just respect that – we cherish it”, said Clinton in her concession speech. “It withstands various political winds”. And it would also go against his intentions.

Apparently they want just enough of their fellow electors to write in Mitt Romney or John Kasich so they can block Trump. This is the first time he will actually get to vote.

If you got all your news on social media over the past week, you’d likely conclude that the country is coming apart at the seams, with waves of violence and threats committed by Trump supporters against members of minority groups.