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I don't think the founding fathers ever anticipated that we would have a scenario where the popular vote leader was not elected president in two of five elections. Thwarting the will of the people was not their intention.
The fact that electors could actually go against how the people in their state voted and act on their own is just another sign that the electoral college has long outlived itself.
False meme.
We vote by State and this is exactly what they intended.
With the electoral college? We just prevented a criminal and a communistic from taking office, even in spite of the money and propaganda behind her. They fled that type of a government and they knew how to safeguard us. The Republic can live a little bit longer.
I worry more about those counting votes deciding elections and not the people voting(as seen in the recount abnormalities in just 3 states)
I don't think the founding fathers ever anticipated that we would have a scenario where the popular vote leader was not elected president in two of five elections. Thwarting the will of the people was not their intention.
The fact that electors could actually go against how the people in their state voted and act on their own is just another sign that the electoral college has long outlived itself.
What kinda stupid logic is that?
You have got to be kidding! If that were the case, there would have never been an electoral college to begin with and this would have been America, instead of the United STATES of America.
With the electoral college? We just prevented a criminal and a communistic from taking office, even in spite of the money and propaganda behind her. They fled that type of a government and they knew how to safeguard us. The Republic can live a little bit longer.
I voted for Trump and am glad he won.
I support the general idea of the Electoral College and don't want to see it abandoned.
....but if you think the way it works now is how our Founders intended it to work, you need a study in History.
I don't think the founding fathers ever anticipated that we would have a scenario where the popular vote leader was not elected president in two of five elections. Thwarting the will of the people was not their intention.
The fact that electors could actually go against how the people in their state voted and act on their own is just another sign that the electoral college has long outlived itself.
God, you dummies...
Don't you realize that "back in the day" people didn't vote and electors in the electoral college were distributed to candidate by state legislatures?!
I know exactly how it was intended to work, more so than you.
Doesn't appear so....
I bet if I searched your posting history, I'd find posts that complain about Democrats trying to get the electors to abandon their pledge to vote for Trump, even though that's EXACTLY how the founders intended the process to work.
Electors were never intended to be "bound" or "pledged" to any candidate. They were to be intellectual free agents, free to deliberate and decide amongst themselves as "men most qualified" who the next president should be, without any obligation to the public vote in their state.
Absolutely, people living today have absolutely NO understanding of the time, study and thought that the founders put into crafting the Constitution. The further away we get from our founding, the further we get from really understanding the historical significance of what they accomplished!
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