JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

I am 100% for the Electoral College. Full blown Democracy is basically mob rule. However; we hear a lot from the left about all votes should be counted? Hillary won because she won the popular vote, every vote is important and blah,blah, blah. Almost 40% of eligible voters didn’t bother to vote in the 2016 election. Doesn’t seem like the vote is all that popular. Here’s another interesting stat. If you threw out California Trump wins the popular vote by over 1 million. This is also another worthless stat. My point. Stick with the Electoral College. A brilliant idea for a country of States.

teabag09

100% agree. Mike

Seth

Well said!

America's founders were exponentially smarter than today's American-in-name-only Democrats.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Thanks. Much smarter but the bars pretty low if it’s a Democrat bar.

Seth

That's a given.

Iliamna1

Don't forget, California allows dead people and illegal aliens to vote. I suspect if all the cheating across the nation were eliminated, Trump also won the popular vote by a landslide.

Seth

LOL! For some reason I envision Pocahontas Warren delivering a campaign speech at a cemetery, pandering for the Dearly Departed vote.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Iliamna1

Now that's funny! amid a huge funeral for some illegal drug kingpin who was shot by the drug cartel.

greenmountaineer Loc: Vermont

Without the Electoral College, small states like Vermont will be totally swamped by NY and California. However, the Electoral College is not being used as the Constitution says. I watched on TV, our three electors vote. Now they are supposed to vote for two people, one of whom does not come from their state. Then when all the votes come to DC, they get counted. There is no provision for Primary votes or any input from the people at all. But rather than doing that, Governor Shumlin and two others merely cast three votes for Hillary and ignored Bernie. So they violated the Constitution right there. The President should not need input from the people, as he supposed to be an executive. He carries out and enforces laws passed by Congress. But we don't have that anymore. We elect kings for four year terms. Taking money that Congress voted to be used for some project and using it to build a wall, is misappropriation of funds. If I had done that when I was chairman of the Bolton Select Board, I'd have been thrown in jail. But I guess it's OK if you are a king.

Seth

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Not misappropriation of funds at all. There is a case to be made that the southern border is a National Security issue. I believe this was ruled upon by the courts.

JimMe

Not only am I in favor of the Presidential Electoral College... I'm against State Legislatures mandating that their State's Plurality Winner receives 100% of their Electoral Votes...

I believe the concept of the Electoral College was the compromise between the more populated States - who wanted a "Total Plurality Winner of All The States" - and the less populated States - who wanted a "One State One Vote Plurality" - and the compromise was to have the President and Vice-President elected based on the States' Congressional Representation... This has the President and Vice-President elected by the Citizens within each House District, and the 2 Senators to represent the Voters' Statewide choice...

Read Our Constitution Article 2 Section 1:
House District Electorates were designed to represent how their House Districts' voters chose, and Senate Electorates to represent how their Statewide voters chose... Not "Winner Take All"...

However...
The States' Legislatures in 48 of Our 50 States have decided to make it a "Statewide Plurality Take All" for their State's Electoral Votes, which is Legal, but completely against what Our Constitution is looking for...

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

Actually, with all the fraud, 'dead votes', and illegals she lost even he popular vote.

bggamers Loc: georgia

I would rather have my taxes build a wall than to have illegals flooding this country and living on our wellfare and food stamps with free housing and medical thrown in THANK YOU