As Hillary continues her blame game book tour, she’s adding another complaint to the list – the Electoral College.
What a sore loser! It’s just like a liberal to want to change the rules of the game after losing. And it’s especially just like a liberal to not understand and take to heart the laws and checks and balances set forth in our Constitution.
In a CNN interview about her new book “What Happened,” Clinton said in reference to the Electoral College, “I think it needs to be eliminated…I’d like to see us move beyond it, yes.”
To remind people why we have the Electoral College, it’s to prevent the presidency from becoming a simple popularity contest. Pretty much only major U.S. cities would matter in presidential elections and the candidates would cater to the mostly liberal people in those areas. New York City and Los Angeles, the most progressive cities in the nation, would be controlling our country. Like it’s said, the president of the United States is the president of ALL the people. Getting rid of the Electoral College would essentially make him or her the president of New York and California. Imagine President Pelosi or Schumer. **SHUDDER**
Politicians are already too out-of-touch and eliminating the Electoral College would only make things worse. Having candidates go to places like Iowa and New Hampshire to get Electoral College votes forces them to actually meet people outside the major cities and listen to their concerns. If all they needed was the popular vote, they would never even hear the issues of middle America, never mind address them.
This was part of Hillary’s problem. People have noted Hillary did not make enough of an effort in states like Michigan and Wisconsin. Perhaps if Hillary had been better attuned to the people of those states, she would have adjusted her strategy and platform to get those votes. The people wanted to be heard and President Trump reached out, listened, and spoke to people’s concerns.
CNN also noted that Hillary supported abolishing the Electoral College after Gore lost. “I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president,” she told reporters at the time.
Sorry, Hillary, we are not a democracy, and intentionally so. We are a constitutional republic. The founding fathers did not want the popular vote to be what was important because they knew that it would result in the tyranny of the majority and they wanted to protect minority rights.
We need more voices, not less, and getting rid of the Electoral College would essentially shut people out. Which, come to think of it, is exactly what liberals love – shutting down other voices. And disrespecting our Constitution, especially when it was written by a bunch of “dead, white, slave-holding men.”
Time for Hillary to get off the political stage and let the people who understand how the Constitution works get on with governing.
What do you think – does the Electoral College need to be abolished? Tell us in the comments below!
Another thing… If we had a state EC then LA, Santa Barbara and San Francisco counties wouldn’t have control of the state. Probably the same in New York.
I forgot. s was mentioned earlier, we are NOT a democracy. A democracy is 10 men telling 6 women that certain sex acts are not a crime. Or 10 wolves telling 4 lambs what’s for dinner. Majority rules is rarely, if ever, a good thing!
Again, Hillary blows smoke. She can rant and rave, gnash her teeth and hiss but the Electoral college is in our Constitution and a change to that would require ratification by 38 of the 50 states and I can’t see New Hampshire and Wisconsin and 36 more lining up to be disenfranchised.
HILLARY CAN GO TO HELL !!!!!
And wasn’t she the one that said she would respect the peoples choice?…..Lie # 6,432…..
She does not respect the constitution…why would she respect you….
If you can win by cheating Hillary you have to change the rules?
It’s kind of like the “nuclear option” in the Senate. As long as it gave THEM control it was great. BUT as soon as the Republicans got control the Democrats wanted to revert back to the old 60/40 rules which would have given them the power to block the Republicans again. The first time the Republicans won a popular vote, and they would have won with the Electoral College, they would demand that the rules be switched back to benefit them.
Imagine the peace and tranquility we’d have if the DOJ had done their job and put this evil woman in prison!
The Constitutional Republic guarantees that 51% cannot dictate to the other 49%. The Electoral College guarantees that one heavily populated section of the country cannot dictate to the other regions. Stops large cities from controlling the policies governing rural areas for instance. Our forefathers were veery wise indeed!
Without our Christian-God Inspired Constitution FOR the united States of America, which includes provision for the Electoral College to protect minority Voters, there is no USA. God Bless President Trump! MAGA !!!
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Well Hillary it wouldn’t have done you any good to get rid of the electoral vote in this last election because We the People would have demanded an individual recount had you won & once they threw out all the illegal immigrants who voted for you, the deceased that voted for you & the votes you STOLE from Ol’ Bernie, you WOULD NOT have won the popular vote either. Get a clue you old hag America hates you & didn’t want you in power again!
The Electoral College is pure genius! Without it New York and The People’s Republik of Kahleefornya (or just TPR with enough illegal votes) alone would elect presidents due to population. The EC is needed to truly make all votes count.
I agree 100%. Anyone who wants to abolishe the electoral college is either very ignorant of the need for it or very Leftist/socialist. Haven’t all the socialist countries past and present proven that socialism doesn’t work?! Wake up people. HILLARY – YOU CAN GO BACK TO SLEEP. WE DONT NEED YOUR OPINION!
ezaircon4jcsays: Right on. An Article 5 Convention of States is being pursued by Mark Levin. That could restore the election of Senators to State’s Houses of Representatives, giving states a better say in politics. Today’s federal Senate is just a second House of Representatives. Its members, politicians, spend more time in Washington D.C. than in their home states. Also they work far more on personal privileges, pensions, and benefits from contributors to their PACs than they do on their “jobs.” One of them said about the Obamacare law, “We had to pass it so we could see what was in it.”