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Ending the US Electoral College

posted by janrinok on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-is-your-vote-worth? dept.

quintessence writes:

Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Senator-Boxer-to-Introduce-Bill-to-Eliminate-Electoral-College--401314945.html

"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."

[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.

Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM

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  • (Score: 2) by driven on Friday November 18 2016, @01:18AM

    by driven (6295) on Friday November 18 2016, @01:18AM (#428544)

    The Red states simply voted out of fear and hatred. Fear of the American worker losing even more than we've lost in that last 40 years, and the hatred directly stoked by Trump against immigrants and the "theys" that are responsible for the fetid hell that is the existence of the American worker. Never before has there been as much hate.

    Alternative theory: the people you've just described gave Trump enough votes to win, but they don't make up the majority of the votes for Republican. If someone created a pie chart with people's motives for voting for Trump I'm certain there would be a variety of factors, not just the fear and hatred you described. There will be some who voted for Trump while holding their nose, just so Hillary wouldn't [insert anti-Hillary slogan].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @04:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @04:28PM (#428908)

    I hate to say it, but this is exactly why I voted Trump. It was all about gun control. Hillary ran on an anti-2nd amendment platform, and until the Democrats leave the "common sense gun laws" bullshit alone i won't vote for them.

    I suspect that there are just as many out there who will only vote for a candidate who supports open borders, or free access to birth control, etc.

    As a person I think Trump is reprehensible, a product of the old money oligarchy that he professes to combat. A branch can't jump from the tree and call it unholy.

    But I seriously doubt that Trump is going to be as terrible for this country as the left says, he's the most centrist candidate the right has run in forever, and now that he's been elected we're already starting to see the Hardliner bullshit crumble. The wall has suddenly become "more like a fence", the deportations are only for criminals, he "doesn't want to hurt them(Clintons)" so no special prosecutor, etc.

    I honestly think that the greater threat will be all of the true hardliners filling up his cabinet, the ones that he made deals with to win. Those guys are the real problem and I hope that they are kept on a tight leash. I suspect that when Republicans loose in the midterms Trump's cabinet will be replaced with more moderate people.