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2019-01-05 Home Front: Politix
Dem Rep Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Eliminate ‘Outdated Electoral College’
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Posted by Fred 2019-01-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Might as well throw in a pony while they're at it.
Posted by gorb 2019-01-05 00:27||   2019-01-05 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Just change everything to a Parliamentary System -- be brave!! Eliminate the Senate and the Electoral College, then make the Office of the President ceremonial... Voila! The Speaker of the House becomes the most powerful officer... see, wasn't that easy?
Posted by magpie 2019-01-05 03:13||   2019-01-05 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I recommend contacting Christopher Steele and Nellie Ohr.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-05 03:20||   2019-01-05 03:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Fun part will be when, having found they can't meet the Constitutional threshold, they argue the Constitutional threshold must be changed by extra-Constitutional means.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-05 07:23||   2019-01-05 07:23|| Front Page Top

#5 ...they've been using SCOTUS to do that for a generation or two. Who needs no stinkn' Article V.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-05 07:41||   2019-01-05 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Cruz apparently also introduced an amendment for term limits for Congress. I suspect that actually has a chance in hell of passing.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-01-05 08:07||   2019-01-05 08:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Tennessee should kick his ass. The EC is a leveling force to prevent NY and California from overpowering the other states
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-05 08:08||   2019-01-05 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Time to stop thinking of politicians from Detroit, Minneapolis, New York City, Nashville, Austin, Atlanta, Missoula and other finance centers / college towns as synonymous for the states they reside in. Rather than needing the Electoral College to be abolished, we need it at instituted the state level too.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-05 09:59||   2019-01-05 09:59|| Front Page Top

#9 What Frank G said.
Posted by Angaiper Slinerong2336 2019-01-05 10:35||   2019-01-05 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 The Constitution doesn't say that all of a state's electoral college votes have to go to the winner in that state. States could choose to have the winner in each congressional district get that district's vote, and the two other votes could go to whoever got a plurality in the state.

Of course, that would mean that instead of all of California's votes going to Hillary, some of them would have gone to Trump.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-01-05 10:45||   2019-01-05 10:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Californian Republicans should offer up that proposal to make the Californian Electoral College vote more democratic.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-01-05 12:01||   2019-01-05 12:01|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 some states do that now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-05 12:22||   2019-01-05 12:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Destruction of the form of government known as a REPUBLIC. The Democrats want mob (majority) rule, and no ability for individuals to hold any rights in opposition to the power of the state and the agitated masses.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-01-05 12:58||   2019-01-05 12:58|| Front Page Top

#14 "must be changed by extra-Constitutional means."

Luckily, we have Constitutional means to prevent this, thanks to the Second Amendment. If they try to impose by force, they will die by force of arms.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-01-05 13:00||   2019-01-05 13:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Of course, that would mean that instead of all of California's votes going to Hillary, some of them would have gone to Trump.

That was then...
Recently, Cali made a change that the winners in a primary are not the highest one from each party, but the two highest overall. The result was races where both candidates were Dems.

I don't know if this applies only to state elections. If it does apply to national voting, then it effectively locks out the minority party.
Posted by SteveS 2019-01-05 13:20||   2019-01-05 13:20|| Front Page Top

#16 I will at least give him credit for realizing that a constitutional amendment is required.
Posted by Tom 2019-01-05 14:24||   2019-01-05 14:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Perhaps Rep. Steve Cohen (D., Tenn) will find he likes being a politician in Mexico more to his tastes.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-01-05 15:11||   2019-01-05 15:11|| Front Page Top

#18 The EC is a leveling force to prevent NY and California from overpowering the other states

And then your really would get a civil war.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-05 15:24||   2019-01-05 15:24|| Front Page Top

#19 Rep. Steve Cohen (E), "E" for embarassment to TN and for EC legislation going nowhere.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-05 16:51||   2019-01-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#20 He's from Memphis so youll have to fogive him. Some of the most lazy stupid people in the world I have ever seen were in "Mimpis"
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-01-05 21:59||   2019-01-05 21:59|| Front Page Top

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