Al Gore Says He Now Supports Abolishing The Electoral College

Al Gore was one man who won the popular vote but lost the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000.

And while this year’s national popular vote isn’t completely tallied, Hillary Clinton now has a margin of more than 2 million votes over President-elect Donald Trump.

Currently, 11 states representing a total of 165 electoral votes have passed this legislation.

The fund raising appears running out of gas since Green Party candidate Jill Stein launched the effort last month.

Converted into percentages, Johnson has received 3.3 percent of the vote so far, while Stein’s share is 1.1 percent.

The recount started Thursday in Wisconsin, where Trump defeated Clinton by 22,000 votes out of almost 3 million votes that were cast.

They make statements such as “The Popular Vote…” and “The majority of voters…” as if our government were an Athenian democracy rather than a Constitutional republic.

Boxer said, “I rise today to discuss legislation I introduced to eliminate the Electoral College and ensure that the candidate who wins the most votes will be elected president”. The fact is we don’t know who would have won a popular vote election since neither candidate campaigned to win the popular vote. These voters have pledged to block Trump from becoming president, and in the process defy the Electoral College’s voting norm and not vote for Clinton. The Democratic National Committee, however, mostly criticized the idea of challenging the results of the presidential election, since this might undermine U.S. citizens’ trust in the election system.

I favor keeping the Electoral College because it has worked well for more than 200 years.

Congressman Cohen continued, “When the Founders established the electoral college, it was in an era of limited nationwide communication”.

A Change.org petition is a good reason why Americans should hope the left never achieves its goal of a pure democracy in America. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win.