The most absurd is the notion that in a direct democracy, every vote "Counts."
"My view is that every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College-and every vote counts," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said this week.
The Electoral College, imperfect as it is, forces candidates to moderate their views, create coalitions, and appeal to voters is disparate areas.
Some people like to point out that the Electoral College couldn't really be important, seeing as we've had only four elections in which it was in conflict with the "Popular vote." The opposite is true.
Trying to delegitimize Donald Trump's 2016 victory by pointing to Hillary Clinton's "Popular vote" victory is one of the most dishonest political arguments going-not merely because the "Popular vote" is mythical and irrelevant but also because Trump ran a campaign focused on appealing to the Electoral College.
If Republican presidential candidates concentrated their efforts on the huge untapped reserve of GOP voters in big states, the "Popular vote" in 2016 would have looked very different.
The idea of maintaining proportional voting and states' rights and decentralized power is not the same as an amendment dealing with bookkeeping.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/22/why-democrats-fear-the-electoral-college/
"My view is that every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College-and every vote counts," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said this week.
The Electoral College, imperfect as it is, forces candidates to moderate their views, create coalitions, and appeal to voters is disparate areas.
Some people like to point out that the Electoral College couldn't really be important, seeing as we've had only four elections in which it was in conflict with the "Popular vote." The opposite is true.
Trying to delegitimize Donald Trump's 2016 victory by pointing to Hillary Clinton's "Popular vote" victory is one of the most dishonest political arguments going-not merely because the "Popular vote" is mythical and irrelevant but also because Trump ran a campaign focused on appealing to the Electoral College.
If Republican presidential candidates concentrated their efforts on the huge untapped reserve of GOP voters in big states, the "Popular vote" in 2016 would have looked very different.
The idea of maintaining proportional voting and states' rights and decentralized power is not the same as an amendment dealing with bookkeeping.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/22/why-democrats-fear-the-electoral-college/
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