working class stiff wrote:
Nice post.
I suspect that frustration is at the heart of complaints about the e*******l college. The outcomes haven't favored the Democrats when the popular v**e and e*******l v**es did not match up in two of the last five e******ns.
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Trump, October 11, 2017, on interview with Sean Hannity
“I would rather have the popular v**e.”
Trump, November 13, 2016, on “60 Minutes”
“ I would rather see it, where you went with simple v**es. You know, you get 100 million v**es, and somebody else gets 90 million v**es, and you win. There’s a reason for doing this. Because it brings all the states into play.”
In 2012, the night Romney lost, Trump tweeted.
"The phoney e*******l college made a laughing stock out of our nation. . . . The e*******l college is a disaster for a democracy."
In 1969, The U.S. House of Representatives v**ed for a national popular v**e by a 338–70 margin.
Recent and past p**********l candidates who supported direct e******n of the President in the form of a constitutional amendment, before the National Popular V**e bill was introduced: George H.W. Bush (R-TX-1969), Bob Dole (R-KS-1969), Gerald Ford (R-MI-1969), Richard Nixon (R-CA-1969), and Hillary Clinton (D-NY-2001).
Recent and past p**********l candidates with a public record of support, before November 2016, for the National Popular V**e bill that would guarantee the majority of E*******l College v**es and the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular v**es: Bob Barr (Libertarian- GA), U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R–GA), Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), and Senator Fred Thompson (R–TN),
Newt Gingrich summarized his support for the National Popular V**e bill, which would guarantee the majority of E*******l College v**es to the winner of the national popular v**e, by saying: “No one should become president of the United States without speaking to the needs and hopes of Americans in all 50 states. … America would be better served with a p**********l e******n process that treated citizens across the country equally. The National Popular V**e bill accomplishes this in a manner consistent with the Constitution and with our fundamental democratic principles.”