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| Hillary Clinton Still Hates The Electoral College |
| 2018-05-27 |
| Hopin' for one last, desperate shot at the big chair, isn't she? LOL... [Hot Air] - Using the occasion of receiving this year’s Harvard’s Radcliffe Medal, Hillary Clinton once again launched an attack on our country’s Electoral College. You may remember an interview in 2017 when she voiced her opinion that the Electoral College should be eliminated. "I think it needs to be eliminated. I’d like to see us move beyond it, yes," she told CNN host Anderson Cooper. Friday at Harvard Clinton said its roots are "troubling" and she’s been against the system since 2000. Hmm. How convenient. You will recall that election in 2000 when her husband’s vice-president, Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. For the first time since 1888, the losing candidate (Gore) had more popular votes than the winner (Bush). |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #10 She has a law degree, and according to her husband was a brilliant student of the subject — Yale, if I recall correctly.. The United States Constitution is one of the topics she was required to study, so she has been aware of the Electoral College for about half a century. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-27 21:37 |
| #9 She was aware of the electoral collage prior to the Presidential campaign. Pathetic to complain about it afterwards. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-05-27 15:31 |
| #8 Hillary gets wasted on Gin because she can't be Putin... |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-05-27 11:59 |
| #7 First they gut the Electoral College, then they will gut the powers of the Senate, and finally they will gut the powers of the Presidency. Sic transit Republic. They want a Parliamentary Tyranny of the Majority. Do you really want a "Democracy"? The Ancient Greeks came to the opinion that when approx. 3,000 Voters are in a city Democracy, Pure Democracy, becomes unworkable. Their only solution was Oligarchy, they just called it prettier names. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-05-27 11:57 |
| #6 So the most smartest-est, accomplished-ed woman who ever lived or WILL live only just found out the rules of the election? |
| Posted by: Cesare 2018-05-27 11:37 |
| #5 Do we want the Governors of California, Texas, Florida, and New York forming a cabal that rotates the Presidency among them? Kill the Electoral College and usher in the Oligarchy assuming that it isn't here already. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-05-27 11:33 |
| #4 This can be improved by simple changes to the size of the House. See here and here. |
| Posted by: rammer 2018-05-27 11:27 |
| #3 Shorter Hildabeast: "I lost. Change the rules!" See also: AlGore |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-27 10:54 |
| #2 No Electoral College, no United States. Clear and Simple. Then the smaller states were not going to give up their sovereignty to 4 or 5 big states. No more than nearly 2/3rd of today's states want to give up their sovereignty to 10 major metropolitan areas. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-05-27 10:39 |
| #1 I think people like swil and algore are precisely why the founders came up with the Electoral College. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-05-27 09:28 |