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But according to the article, some states allow their electorates to change their votes. Hopefully not many will,
but if all the rioting continues, who knows.......
24 of the 50 states are not bound by state law, but most of those lacking a law, are bound by pledges, that the political party has the right to replace if the pledges arent followed as promised. The Supreme Court has held that individuals are not free to vote for who they wish, and can easily be substituted
you guys are grasping for air while standing on the shoreline of the ocean where there is lots of clean air to begin with.. relax.. take a deep breath, 8 years will go bye and you'll still be alive..
Thats the purpose of electoral vote.
Popular vote is just that, popularity contest.
Like class president.
In pretty much every single democratic republic, the candidate that gets the most votes wins.
That is fair.
What is extrodinary, is that in the US they have this archaic system to pick a president, and that system is clearly flawed. Yet for purely partisan reasons, people such as yourself defend it and think there's nothing the matter with working against the democratic wishes of the majority of the public.
Wow, the rightwingers are really getting defensive that Trump came in second place among the voters.
Even Jimmy Carter got over 50% of the vote and he won the popular vote, both of which Trump failed to do. It shows just how weak Trump's victory was.
60,879,648 Clinton
60,289,426 Trump
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590,222 Clinton's lead (and growing)
sure, in just California:
Clinton: 5,860, 714 votes
Trump: 3,151, 821 votes that's a 2.7 million gap, the biggest gap in the nation.....with all those illegals in California it sure helps the Democrat Party. LMAO!
it doesn't hurt me......Trump campaigned to win the electoral vote not the popular vote....if the rules was the popular then Trump campaigns in only big cities with big population. Trump won the states he needed to win, the popular vote is a mute point.
if the rules of a game is who ever has the most points wins in a sport why would anybody care who won the time of possession stat or who has the bigger fan base?????
In pretty much every single democratic republic, the candidate that gets the most votes wins.
That is fair.
What is extrodinary, is that in the US they have this archaic system to pick a president, and that system is clearly flawed. Yet for purely partisan reasons, people such as yourself defend it and think there's nothing the matter with working against the democratic wishes of the majority of the public.
You mean the 120 million voters who chose Clinton over Trump by an almost 600,000 vote margin?
There's nothing wrong with people petitioning the Electors to switch their votes. It's Constitutional, so the right wingers need to stop whining about it. Don't like it? Start your own petition to keep Trump.
We already had our petition for Donald. It's called "voting". And no, I didn't mean the the 120 million who voted for Clinton - because that didn't occur - I meant over 120 million people total voted, in the entire country.
I guess it was actually around 135 mil.
Nothing wrong with a petition. Seems like it happens often lately when losers can't deal with results they don't like. Welcome to life.
In pretty much every single democratic republic, the candidate that gets the most votes wins.
That is fair.
What is extrodinary, is that in the US they have this archaic system to pick a president, and that system is clearly flawed. Yet for purely partisan reasons, people such as yourself defend it and think there's nothing the matter with working against the democratic wishes of the majority of the public.
you called in sick they day your teacher taught American Civic....we are not a banana Republic where the mob rules with a majority, we are a constitutional Republic.
The Electoral College was in part designed to force the candidates to appeal to a broad range of people in many states large and small. If we did away with this system, the candidates would be able to focus on getting votes in several large cities. They might ignore less populated portion of the country.
Remember that the United States is a union of 50 separate and independent states. We are not just one big country. On Election Day we do not have one big national election, but instead we hold 50 separate elections, one for each state. In this way each state determines who they want to be President. Each state has different rules that determine how their electors in the college must vote. Almost all states require all of their electors to vote for the winner of the popular vote for that state. Your vote does count!
Each state has electors equal to their total number of congressional seats in the House and Senate. This gives small states like Wyoming and Rhode Island power in the Electoral College that is slightly disproportionate to their population. This is much like the way these small states have slightly disproportionately more power in Congress. This was a compromise that the founding fathers came up with to prevent the states with large populations dominating the national government and exercising control over smaller states.
The fact that on rare occasions the winner of the Electoral College vote will be different from the winner of the nationwide popular vote is not an accident or flaw in the system. The nationwide popular vote is not even mentioned in the constitution. It is merely a number that the news media reports. The founding fathers never had any intention that our President should be elected by way of national popular vote.
A constitutional amendment would be required to change the system. Small states would never agree to ratify such an amendment. It is highly unlikely that it would ever pass.
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Silly idea! It is NOT going to happen!!
