Clinton Supporters Are Now Harassing Arizona’s Presidential Electors

Clinton, who won the popular vote in the November 8 election, has made just one public appearance since her concession speech, making a short speech at a Children’s Defense Fund event in Washington, D.C. She indicated she would continue to be involved in causes that are important to her, notably children’s issues. When we vote for the president, we are voting for their – the candidate’s – electors who are generally people of character and longstanding loyalty to the political party of their choice and candidate.

The Electoral College was originally set up by the founding fathers in the constitution.

The last amendment to be added to the constitution was the 27th amendment, which officially became a part of the constitution in 1992.

The attorney said he reacted to Trump’s win with “absolute shock, disgust and horror – followed by two days of wanting to stay under the covers with the lights off”. The same thing happened in 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost to George W. Bush thanks to the antiquated Electoral College.

How would electing Clinton work? Alexander Hamilton, a proponent of the Electoral College system, wrote in “The Federalist Papers”, the Constitution is created to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications”.

They’re pretty rare in modern political history. Clearly the will of the electorate was subverted in all these cases by the fluky power of the good old boy Electoral College network.

For the fourth time in American history, a candidate has won the presidency without winning the popular vote, and, as expected, this has prompted yet more calls to eliminate the Electoral College. “Candidates compete to win electoral votes; the popular vote is a by-product of that”. And if she carries the state, Clinton would need 22 electors to flip.

“However, the number of electors can change”.

What are the chances of it actually happening? Electors who cast their votes for her would simply be throwing their votes away. As Jason Linkins noted in the Huffington Post, the kinds of states “ignored” most under the current system are also the ones that would get the shaft if we shifted to a pure popular vote system. Hayes was also a one-term president who, because of a back room deal between the Democrats and Republicans to end the contention and award the Republican the presidency, the Democrats got their way in the South and gave us Jim Crow for the next 80 years.

Normally, the victor of the nationwide popular vote also wins the majority of the electors’ votes.

“At the state convention, I was warned but I didn’t expect this”, he said. Previous to Trump, four United States presidents had clinched the presidency without winning the popular vote.

“The important point here to realize is these are all party loyalists, and they are pretty carefully vetted”, Neale said. Now they want to abolish it.

Some critics say that allowing voters to directly elect the president would splinter the two-party system.

“The argument can always be made that, ‘Well, Sec”.

Tennessee, like 28 other states and the District of Columbia, have laws punishing so-called faithless electors – electors who cast votes counter to how their state voted in the presidential election – usually with a small fine. One rationale, no longer applicable, was that at the time, with a population widely dispersed along the Atlantic seaboard and only a few poor roads, communication was hard. A switch to the popular vote would leave the decision in the hands of major population centers on the coasts at the expense of issues that are critical to the sprawling middle of the country.