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A Call for Healing

A Call for Healing
Democrats Call for Healing the Country
Showing posts with label popular vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular vote. Show all posts

Oct 8, 2020

Electoral College Blues

 Every presidential election since 1789 has been decided by the electoral college vote, except one, never the popular vote.  If you think it should be different, please use the procedures in Article V of the Constitution to ratify an amendment abolishing the electoral college and substituting the popular vote.  Good luck with that, by the way.  Ratification takes 3/4th of the state legislatures approving the amendment.  There's no way you can get the electoral college abolished by a Constitutional amendment, because small states won't ratify any such amendment.

Meanwhile you can be shocked, shocked, that Trump won the electoral college without winning a majority of popular votes, and won the presidency.  It's similar to your NFL team  gaining more yards but losing the game on points scored.  Shameful in both cases, right, even though the rules of the game were clear to everybody from the start.  Perhaps Democrats are too dumb to win presidential elections according to the Constitution.