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Friends, we must urgently begin educating our communities about the critical role of the Electoral College, especially in blue states where the system has been undermined to the detriment of local voters.
The Electoral College ensures that smaller states, and less urban areas within larger states, have a voice in presidential elections, preventing the dominance of densely populated urban centers which typically lean Democrat. If we allow Democrats to continue their push against this system without opposition, we risk losing this essential balance of power.
Senate Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment to Abolish Electoral College
Republicans Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Trump have defended the Electoral College as empowering smaller states.
Sam Dorman | Epoch Times | 12-17-24
Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment on Dec. 16 that would abolish the Electoral College and ensure the country’s presidential elections were determined by the popular vote.
“It is time to retire this 18th-century invention that disenfranchises millions of Americans,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a press release.
He and Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) proposed the legislation after another proposal emerged in the House last week.
“No one’s vote should count for more based on where they live,“ Schatz said in the press release. ”The Electoral College is outdated and it’s undemocratic. It’s time to end it.”
Article II of the Constitution establishes the Electoral College, which directs states to appoint electors for casting votes for president and vice president.
The practice has come under considerable criticism from Democrats such as Durbin, who noted in his press release that he tried to abolish the Electoral College in 2000.
“In all but five presidential elections, the winner of the election received the most votes,” the press release read. “Two of those five times came in the last 25 years, handing the presidency to candidates the majority of voters rejected.”
The release was referring to former President George W. Bush and candidate Donald Trump losing the popular vote in 2000 and 2016 respectively. In the most recent presidential election, Trump won 49.9 percent of the popular vote compared with Vice President Kamala Harris’ 48.4 percent.
Trump has both supported and criticized the Electoral College in social media posts. He said in 2012 that it was a “disaster for democracy” and in 2019 said he “realize[s] the Electoral College is far better.”
He said that the “brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win,” adding that without it, smaller states would lose power.
Eliminating the Electoral College via constitutional amendment would require state and national approval.
According to Article V of the Constitution, Congress can send the issue to the states after two-thirds of both the House and Senate approve an amendment. From there, three-fourths of the state Legislatures or state ratifying conventions must also approve.
The House legislation is a joint resolution with proposed text for a constitutional amendment. It reads in part: “The pair of candidates having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected.”
The bill clarifies that the change would be enacted following verification by three-fourths of state Legislatures.
The bill and amendment seem poised to fail with a Republican-dominated Congress next year.
In October, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) panned a call by his state’s governor to abolish the Electoral College.
McConnell said the Electoral College encourages candidates to travel to smaller states. “At its core, the Electoral College protects Americans from the whims of the majority, something I’m familiar with in the Senate. ... Without it, no presidential candidate would ever travel to a small state in Middle America, like Kentucky,” he said.
Senate Democrats’ press release on Dec. 16 noted that 17 states and the District of Columbia “have joined a national plan to bypass the Electoral College by agreeing to allocate its electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the nationwide popular vote.”
That seemed to be a reference to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which has seen legislative approvals from multiple typically blue states since 2007.
In September, Pew Research Center said that more than six in 10 Americans support the popular vote determining who the next president is. Only 35 percent favored retaining the Electoral College.
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According to the 2020 US population census, California 39,358,223, Texas 29,145,505, Florida 21,538,187, New York 20,201,249. These are the most populated states, with Pennsylvania at 13,002,700 and the rest of the 45 states coming in lower than that. Of those 4 states that dominate the population, its their large cities that hold the majority of the population. So if you abolish the Electoral College, 4 states along with the major cities of the US which are democrat would rule the nation. The democrats put out the call during Obama's time for democrats to move to Florida and Texas to turn them blue as well as going to open boarders to bring in democrat voters to those states. They know if they abolish the Electoral College, they will rule the nation. The rural states would have no voice in our government. During the Great Depression of the 1930's, Roosevelt spent tax payer money to put people back to work. He gave 60% of that money to NYC alone, the entire nation had to split the other 40%. When asked why he gave so much to NYC he replied, the mayor was a good friend of mine and when he asked for more money I couldn't deny him. Roosevelt denied that people were starving to death in the Midwest due to the dust bowls created by the severe drought. God finally got his attention when a dust bowl that was the size of 4 states moved to DC and dumped about 4" of dust upon the city. The democrats hail Roosevelt as one of their greatest, yet he was a very selfish man who thought of nothing but enriching his friends, the rest of the nation be dammed. In a speech in 1932 he blamed the Great Recession upon the Republican President who tried government spending to stimulate the economy, yet during the entire depression he spent more than the Republican he replaced and the nation remained in the depression which was followed by WWII. So much for his campaign promises of a chicken in every pot and his theme song that rainy days are gone, sunny days are here to stay. Tell that to the millions who were slaughter in WWII how sunny their days were. Jill Biden put signs of peace, love, etc. on the WH lawn shortly after entering the WH. Like Roosevelts sunny days, war broke out in Ukraine and Israel. My state is a small rural state with the majority of our population in the big cites, most of which are located in the NE part of the state. They tax the rural property owners heavily and that tax money is spent in the major cites with the rural areas are being destroyed. Businesses closing down right and left, hospitals and schools closed. Big city folks may think that farmers/ranchers mean nothing to them because they don't understand the food they buy starts on the farm/ranch. Heard it many a time as a Marine, "I don't need the farmer, I get my food from the grocery store." And that mentality will help rule the destruction of our nation if the Electoral College is abolished. Everyone needs a voice in our government.