Congressional Democrats Call For Amendment To Abolish Electoral College

“Support for an amendment peaked at 80% in 1968, after Richard Nixon nearly lost the popular vote while winning the Electoral College”, Gallup said in its analysis.

The net result of the election is that those voters who were anxious about the decline of the United States are now among the most optimistic about the next four years. Created to protect small states against domination by large ones, it has come to protect smaller population groups from larger ones. “Given her tiny vote total, Stein does not and could not possibly allege a good faith belief that she may have won the state of MI”.

He’s also urging the Electoral College at large to reject Trump when they convene on December 19.

Since the election of Donald Trump as president, we’ve been hearing an outcry to eliminate the Electoral College. Right now, Congress is primarily Republican, and Republicans always make out when the popular vote conflicts with the Electoral College, so don’t look for them to change anything.

Over 4.7 million people have signed a petition calling on the Electoral College to stop Donald Trump from being President. To win the presidency, a candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes.

“Mr. Trump is unfit to serve”, he wrote in the petition.

And 71 of those people changed their votes because the original winning candidate died before Electoral College votes could be cast. Then when we go to the polls in November, we are actually voting for electors based on party rather than the presidential and vice-presidential candidates listed on the ballot.

There would candidates of the pro-life and pro-choice parties; free trade and anti-trade parties; pro-immigration and anti-immigration parties; and parties favoring or opposing gun control-just to use the hot issues of today as examples. These areas were decidedly Democratic in the election and unquestionably comprise an inordinate majority of vote-eligible citizens in the country. Had the election been based exclusively on popular vote, half of California and a handful of overly populated NY cities would have decided the election for the rest of us. That’s certainly true. But it’s also true that as Alexander Hamilton wrote then of the system devised to choose a president, “If the manner of it be not flawless, it is at least excellent”.