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Friday, April 05, 2019

Electoral College: Republic vs. Democracy

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) became the latest public figure to jump on board the Left’s anti-Electoral College bandwagon this week. Gillibrand, a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate, opined, “Our democracy is built on the principle of one person, one vote. It can’t function until we restore that principle. It’s time to abolish the Electoral College.”

It appears that Gillibrand needs to brush up on her U.S. civics knowledge. The fact of the matter is the United States is not nor ever was a democracy; it’s a republic. In truth, Democrat leaders know this, but their instinct is to seek to change the rules when they don’t win rather than change themselves. And they cynically exploit ignorance among their constituents to achieve their ends.

Abolishing the Electoral College would require a constitutional amendment, and in leu of that, 12 blue states have colluded to send their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote rather than the winner of popular vote within their individual states. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) is essentially designed as a means to get around the Democrats’ objection to federalism.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Damn Demon-crats Like the college when They Win

only now that they LOOSE , do they Not like it !!!!

They WIne over every thing , Loosers !!!!

Anonymous said...

I hope this country is listening carefully and does not allow this to go beyond shrill screaming. Are you listening Delaware???

Anonymous said...

Forget this nonsense. If the dems want to win an election they need to produce a worthy candidate. Their last candidate was a disgrace.

Anonymous said...

It will never happen, so I dont know why they continue to talk about it. It takes 2/3rds of the Congress along with 2/3rds of the states. Such sore losers!