There is currently a plan to ditch the Electoral College – giving the Presidency to whoever wins the popular vote – and 12 states have already signed on.
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” states Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt, and it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Stirewalt also states that without the Electoral College we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. With a popular vote presidential candidates would ignore rural areas and focus only on urban centers. The “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he concludes, and it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Nearly a dozen states have quietly signed onto a plan to effectively ditch the Electoral College and instead, award the White House to the candidate that wins the popular vote.
The National Popular Vote agreement would take effect if states that represent 270 electoral votes all commit. New York has most recently joined the efforts, bringing the number of states to 10 plus the District of Columbia. Altogether, they represent 165 electoral votes.
Without the Electoral College, FoxNews.com digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. If presidents are selected through the popular vote, he said that campaigns will focus on maximizing turnout in urban centers. He said the “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he said, explaining that it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Since there is not enough support in Congress to change the Constitution and officially end the Electoral College, this plan would allow popular vote advocates to work around it.
Stirewalt pointed out that this plan is part of a larger trend on the part of “frustrated” liberals who haven’t been able to bring about the changes they want.
“They are simply taking them. They are simply doing it and if people dissent and if people complain and if the stodgy, old Constitution gets in the way, if the fussy old Whigs in the Electoral College complain about it, too bad. Because they’re gonna hack the code and they’re gonna find a way to get what they want,” he said.
So can this actually happen?
Stirewalt believes there will be significant pushback once people across the United States realize the “deadly gravity of what is being proposed” and if the states move closer to 270.
Nearly a dozen states have quietly signed onto a plan to effectively ditch the Electoral College and instead, award the White House to the candidate that wins the popular vote.
The National Popular Vote agreement would take effect if states that represent 270 electoral votes all commit. New York has most recently joined the efforts, bringing the number of states to 10 plus the District of Columbia. Altogether, they represent 165 electoral votes.
Without the Electoral College, FoxNews.com digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. If presidents are selected through the popular vote, he said that campaigns will focus on maximizing turnout in urban centers. He said the “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he said, explaining that it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Since there is not enough support in Congress to change the Constitution and officially end the Electoral College, this plan would allow popular vote advocates to work around it.
Stirewalt pointed out that this plan is part of a larger trend on the part of “frustrated” liberals who haven’t been able to bring about the changes they want.
“They are simply taking them. They are simply doing it and if people dissent and if people complain and if the stodgy, old Constitution gets in the way, if the fussy old Whigs in the Electoral College complain about it, too bad. Because they’re gonna hack the code and they’re gonna find a way to get what they want,” he said.
So can this actually happen?
Stirewalt believes there will be significant pushback once people across the United States realize the “deadly gravity of what is being proposed” and if the states move closer to 270.
well i have voted for years an funny thing is the dead peoples vote count more then mine Period just look at the last election they should have impeached him once they found out that dead people voted for him Period or run a new election where you had to be alive to vote an not dead i guess dead people been here longer then myself LOL
Shouldn’t the man with the most votes win if we are going to stay with the electoral college we may as well stay home on voting day and ask who our state is voting for.
this should have been done a long time ago, makes it harder to rig an election should be decided by all people not just a select few
Should be One vote for each State. Why should six States control what this Country does?
We need a revolution! !!!!
TREASON,TRAITOR’S,VIOLATION OF OATH,VOTER FRAUD AND NOW THIS C**P
It’s the way it should have always been !
Well said Dawn!!!
Let’s go popular vote. Let’s do this right.
well it did not work in 2008 or 2012 now did it