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2016-11-16 Home Front: Politix
Barbara Boxer introducing bill to abolish Electoral College
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Posted by Fred 2016-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 This is where we point and laugh.

This is how the founding fathers balanced state and federal power.
Posted by gorb 2016-11-16 01:32||   2016-11-16 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the Old Man of the Mountain on Franconia Notch, NH looks younger than the 'esteemed' Senator...
Posted by Raj 2016-11-16 01:50||   2016-11-16 01:50|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Hmmm. I had March in the pool for when somebody would do this.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-11-16 05:14||   2016-11-16 05:14|| Front Page Top

#4 You think forty states are going to surrender the selection process to a dozen or two major metro areas? Forty states is enough to instead dissolve the union. How about instead allow the mechanism to 'spin off' such population centers as independent city states? Just think of all that tax money to can keep and waste. Not to be confused with the taxes you'll pay to import food and energy.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-16 08:13||   2016-11-16 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe we should go back and examine the votes more carefully. Take out the felon votes, the illegal immigrant votes, the other rigged votes (dead votes, Disney characters, etc.) and perhaps Donald would have won the popular vote as well as have increased his margin in the electoral vote. You were right, the story was good for laughs.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-16 09:23||   2016-11-16 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps Barbara would like selective taxation on food going from red states to blue states. See if California can survive on a diet of Almonds and Marijuana.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-16 09:54||   2016-11-16 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Well t begin with it would change the Federal nature of the United Sates thus changing the contact upon which it was founded so states would be entitled to secession.

Second is: This cannot done by law but by a revision of the Constitution requiring super-majorities in the Congrees and in the Staes and you have neither

Third is: Presidential elections by popular vote imply uniform rules and federal supervision. No longer having some districts in Massachusets where in some districts Obam got ovr one hundred and padded his poplar vote cnumbers, in some two hundred prsent of the vote in 2012 (ssen with my own eyes in the official web site of the State of Massachusetts, no more dead voters, no more aliens voting, no more people voting three or four times, no more people voting in other Sates (or in two or theree states), no more voting without and ID (and if you are so concerned about the poor make the ID zero cost). And my little finger tells am that the day elections in America are run according to European standards for supervision the Democratic candidates are going to be ten million votes behind the Republican one for a century or so.

Fourth is: The campaign was run according to certain rules and both candidates ran it according to those rule not according to popular vote. Some voters ateyed home because their candidate has not a one in a thousand chance to win, etc. So who would have won if elections had been decided by popular vote is a ta best a toss-up.

Five; If all the election fraud you and your fellow Democrats were investigated you would become senator for Leavenworth instead of for California

Six:! From what I have heard at the very end Trump also won the popular vote.
Posted by JFM 2016-11-16 10:17||   2016-11-16 10:17|| Front Page Top

#8 If I remember correctly, JFM is not a resident of these here United States, but - nevertheless - he seems to know a lot more about the US Constitution than Ms. Boxer.

Color me shocked.
Posted by Bobby 2016-11-16 11:18||   2016-11-16 11:18|| Front Page Top

#9 You are right I am not an American and the only time I set a foot on American soil was at the military grave yard at Coleville (Normandy).
Posted by JFM 2016-11-16 11:36||   2016-11-16 11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Cimetière américain de Colleville-sur-Mer? I was there two months ago, but I missed you!Map
Posted by Bobby 2016-11-16 13:22||   2016-11-16 13:22|| Front Page Top

#11 The blue is where Hillary won the popular vote. The red is where Trump won the popular vote. THAT is the reason for the Electoral College!!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-11-16 16:10||   2016-11-16 16:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Waitaminute..

Dallas, Chicago, Houston, Austin and Minneapolis were all blue, I was sure!
Posted by Bobby 2016-11-16 19:06||   2016-11-16 19:06|| Front Page Top

#13 WaPo map is more believable

But don't read the WaPo drivel below the map, the oozing scorn will make you retch.
Posted by Bobby 2016-11-16 19:12||   2016-11-16 19:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah... You forgot Austin. And the other big urban areas here in Texas. At least the rural areas held firm and made sure Texas went Trump/red.
Posted by texhooey 2016-11-16 23:02||   2016-11-16 23:02|| Front Page Top

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