Electoral College serves good goal

This is absurd. This is an outrage.

Yet regardless of the debate over the Electoral College, or Clinton’s current, widening lead in the popular vote tallies, Trump says that he would have won the popular vote if he’d had to.

The suspense of just how bad or good he will be in office is going to end.

State legislatures can rectify this anti-democratic process passing a multi-state compact which commits their electoral college delegates, no matter who they individually support and no matter what the outcome of the election is in that particular state, to vote for the victor of the national popular vote. “Every single person’s vote should count”, she demanded. I’m not sure that setup works out for Democrats exactly as they imagine.

Trump has 290 Electoral College votes and Clinton has 232, with MI still undecided.

Since John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s forceful appeals to equal citizenship in the 1960s, every president has offered at least robust rhetorical support to racial justice in law and policy, with conservative Ronald Reagan signing the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday into law and George W. Bush approving the construction of the Smithsonian’s recently completed African American Museum.

As Donald Trump said in 2012, “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy”.

Another elector, Kenneth Crider, 51, of Livonia, tells The News he has gotten more than 300 emails from people in other states asking him to vote for Clinton instead of Trump.

And asserting that all Trump voters are bigoted will not help build bridges or heal the nation, which is explicitly what many progressives are demanding Trump do. Electoral strength of Republicans and Democrats is near evenly distributed across forty plus states with some having varied leanings. So, for all practical purposes, what happens is we elect the president of the battleground states of America versus the president of the United States of America… It’s a cheat. It pretends to be something that it is not.

“And it’s why we have the Electoral College”.

In the final weeks of the election campaign, Clinton pledged to close her race against President-elect Trump the way she started her career, by working on behalf of children and families.

A vote of the people does not determine who our president is.

But even if the system isn’t abolished, can electors be persuaded to vote faithlessly?

This election saw a continuation of that trend, as Democrats captured the majority of voters making less than $50,000 (52 percent) and Republicans carried the majority of voters making over $50,000 (49 percent). It would provide fair power to all states regardless of its size and population. But that overrepresentation should be sufficient to protect the interests of the states.

“This is why we have three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial”. But that’s what they have now. And it doesn’t involve a constitutional amendment.

A Democratic senator has introduced legislation that would scrap the Electoral College after Donald Trump lost the popular vote but won the presidency.

Not only did millions more Americans choose Clinton to be their next president, but a clear majority of voters cast their ballot for somebody other than Trump. This will occur by implementing policies and (most importantly) resources to returning the border areas to a state of good order as opposed to the chaos that they’ve been for years and years. The number of electoral votes each state gets is determined by its number of House seats and Senate seats. She has public opinion behind her.

Mr Trump, busy with his transition and talks with foreign leaders, said he would have won anyway.

We were dismayed when Trump intoned in the final presidential debate that he would challenge the legitimacy of a Clinton win because the system is “rigged”. But these are not principled bases for opposition. I think that what he says on any given day is a function of what he needs to say to get what he wants and how his personal pique and desire for vengeance is running.

The Electoral College in general stems from the idea that the people should not be trusted to vote directly for their president, as Elving reported.