The Electoral College vs The Poplular Vote
Is the Electoral College still the best system to determine the President of the United States? We are going to debate this in an upcoming episode of the PolitiCast! @notmorningjoe and I will give our opinions on which system is better.
The 2016 election between President Trump and Hillary Clinton was the perfect storm to spawn this debate. Although Hillary won the Popular Vote, she was destroyed in the Electoral College, which is all that currently matters. I am not going to tell you now what my opinion is, but I will this week during our PolitiCast!
Have a great work week everyone!
Trump ended up with 306 or actually 308, originally, not 290 as seen in this post above in 2016 with way over 65 million votes and many of the Trump votes were not counted and were destroyed in shredders and thrown away and everything. There are videos, photos, documentaries, etc., of all of this.
Many dead people voted for Hillary and Obama before that. Voter fraud is very big in many countries for so many years. The electoral college helps in balancing things out. The progressive democrats have been busing people in from other countries, people interested in bigger government as opposed to the American Way of independence. Over ten million illegals, dead people, and repeats, and so on, voted for Hillary in 2016. Hillary stole votes from Bernie Sanders as well. Sanders actually won but they stole that from him.
Thank you for reading and commenting. I am now following you....I've always wondered about what voter fraud happens. We always here stories but the MSM are quick to ignore it. I live in Illinois where dead people have been voting for decades.
Voters should be required to have IDs. It might be better to vote on maybe a blockchain system like Steemit or something or by paper ballots alone.
Seems like common sense right?!
Yes! As @joeyarnoldvn pointed out, the electoral college helps prevent corruption in elections. It also increases the probability that Americans from all states and with differing views will be represented in the executive branch. A simple popular vote is too easily dominated by those who live in the big cities.
"[The convention has] directed the President to be chosen by select bodies of electors, to be deputed by the people for that express purpose; and they have committed the appointment of senators to the State legislatures. This mode has, in such cases, vastly the advantage of elections by the people in their collective capacity, where the activity of party zeal, taking the advantage of the supineness, the ignorance, and the hopes and fears of the unwary and interested, often places men in office by the votes of a small proportion of the electors." - John Jay, March 7, 1788. (Federalist No. 64)
Good. Agreed. Hope we can continue to spread the news of how we want things to be in our country and everything. Bad government cannot stop us as we speak out and stuff. We are the sleeping giant as we are active and everything in talking about what we care about and in what we believe.
yes.
Unless you decentralize voting in elections, with people having only a single online identity, you will always need the electoral college (or similar system).
The Electoral college prevents the mass population centers from dominating the politics of the country. After all, who wants New york City, Florida, California, or Boston to decide who wants to be the next president? With the liberal bias of these places, if the Electoral college wasn't around, we'd have liberal president after liberal president after liberal president.