There’s a plan afoot to replace the Electoral College, and your state may already be part of it
Why Was the Electoral College Created?
How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970
Virginia House passes bill to award electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote
Did you know there IS already a movement?
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
The Movement To Skip The Electoral College Is About To Pass A Major Milestone
Somebody knows!
Tara Ross and Prager U is wrong on so many levels!
Let me explain with facts, logic and reason (and I am not a leftist Democrat)
The same reason we got the 3/5ths Compromise, Slavery
James Madison on Slavery and the Electoral College
The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists
Electoral College is ‘vestige’ of slavery, say some Constitutional scholars
The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
This is True. Federalist 10. James Madison. Factions. The reason we have a Senate and a House. Our founders had no concerns of how states selected their winner . Some states didn’t even bother to hold a vote, just let their state legislatures choose their state’s winner. Only white men with property were allowed to vote.
Switzerland on Line 1….. We vote for mayors, sheriffs, city councils, county commissions, school boards, states legislatures and US House and Senate.
In recent years, is the minority GOP that has tyrannized the Majority!
GOP Senators Representing a Minority of Americans Are Preventing a Fair Impeachment Trial
Democrats got millions more votes – so how did Republicans win the Senate?
Great Civics Lesson but has nothing to do with the Electoral College. This was Montesquieu’s idea that Madison plagiarized. Montisque never mentioned an Electoral College.
Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat
This is wrong:
Our 3 branches of government and the makeup of our House (Virginia Plan) and Senate (New Jersey Plan) have NOTHING to do with why we have the Electoral College
This is how it OPERATES, it does not WORK
Just Four States are Likely to Determine the Outcome of 2020 Presidential Race
40-46 of them are pre-determined every four year
Electoral Map: Blue or Red States Since 2000
6 states determined our president in 2016
Here’s a look at how insanely close the election actually was in six key states
I live in a Red State – My Vote Doesn’t Count
Electors that are NOT bound to vote the way the voters of their state want them to vote
Can the Members of the Electoral College Choose Who They Vote For?
The Electoral Punt
This is ABSOLUTELY WRONG! Candidates only campaign in the swing states, the battleground states. These videos explain it well:
This year it is Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin
Trump, Biden zero in on swing states that are key to victory
Follow the Money
Biden Is Outspending Trump On TV, And Just 6 States Are The Focus Of The Campaign
Swing States in the Presidential Election
A Campaign Map, Morphed By Money
This has NO Basis in Fact!
How Trump won the presidency with razor-thin margins in swing states
Trump’s victory margin smaller than total Stein votes in key swing states
Yes, you can, because it only takes a few southern states and a few midwest states to win
The 2020 electoral map could be the smallest in years. Here’s why.
Now Tara Ross makes the biggest cities, biggest states argument
If she studied the US Census (or watched the videos I posted above) she would know this argument does not hold up to facts. Let’s do some math.
America: A Nation of Small Towns
“The biggest cities, the biggest states’. This lie has been repeated so many times a lot of my friends believe it. Let’s look at the States the video has highlighted. California? 39,557,045 – or 12.1% of US Population Texas? 28,701,845 – 8.81% Florida? 21,299,325 – 6.55% New York? 6.02% Pennsylvania? 3.89% Illinois? 3.85% Ohio? 3.55% Georgia? 10,519,475 – 3.23% North Carolina? 10,383,620 – 3.18% Michigan? 3.03%
US States – Ranked by Population 2019
Big cities? Top 25 CITIES make up 11.6% of US Population. MSAs? Top 25 from New York to Seattle? 51% – so Large Cities argument is bogus as well!
Largest cities in the United States by population
The top 37,841 cities, from New York City to Stamford, South Dakota, makes up 65% of our US population. So saying New York and California or New York City and Los Angeles will decide our president is WRONG.
United States Cities Database
YES! (I have already explained this)
The Election Came Down to 77,744 Votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan (Updated)
She goes with the swing states are constantly changing argument. MOST states are not and swing states are not CONSTANTLY changing. WATCH since 2004 – how many times have Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Virginia changed?
‘Same Since’ Electoral Maps
1988 was Bush vs Dukakis!
Texas
Not since 1976 – Remember the South used to vote Democrat (George Wallace ring a bell?)
Southern Strategy
New Hampshire last voted Republican in 2000 for George W. Bush
New Hampshire
Virginia voted Republican from 1968 until 2014, and Democratic ever since
Virginia
She goes with the George W Bush didn’t win because of Florida
but West Virginia argument
West Virginia has been a Red State ever since that election
West Virginia
Al Gore lost Tennessee, his home state
This has no basis in fact!
The 10 Closest States in the 2016 Election
The sad thing is how many people don’t bother to vote because they don’t think their vote matters if they live in a Red State or a Blue State
If “Did Not Vote” Had Been A Candidate In The 2016 US Presidential Election, It Would Have Won By a Landslide
It makes it EASIER! You just have to win a couple of key states! Most states do not matter. Can we say “Voter Suppression in Key States”?
So many swing states? 4? 6? That is MANY?
Do the math. There is NO evidence of any widespread voter fraud, ever. It is far easier to swing one SWING state than scattered precincts in all 50 states plus Washington, DC.
The Myth of Voter Fraud
Nothing in this slide has any basis in fact. The MAJORITY of A State chooses that state’s winner. No coalition building is necessary. There is NO Voter Fraud.
The Creaky Old System
I have been wanting the Electoral College abolished since 1972.
The electoral college is in trouble
We came close abolishing it in 1969!
State Electors Give Nixon 12, Wallace 1
The Electoral College Votes Today. But Politicians Have Been Trying to Reform It for Decades
In September of 1969, the House—after the idea received bipartisan Judiciary Committee support—voted 339-to-70 to approve Bayh’s Constitutional amendment that would abolish the old system. In the spring of 1970, the Senate’s Judiciary Committee seconded the endorsement. Still, there were fears, for example that direct elections would lead to confusion by encouraging many spoiler candidates to throw their hats in the ring, that a president could be elected without broad geographic support, that campaigning would get prohibitively expensive or, perhaps most importantly, that nixing the state-by-state system would erode the basic federalist system of U.S. government. And both parties worried that a change of any kind would somehow advantage one party or the other. Ultimately, though Nixon did say he supported the amendment, he did not go out of his way to push for it and it never managed to gain enough support to defeat a Senate filibuster.
https://time.com/4597833/electoral-college-donald-trump-challenge/
Abolishing The Electoral College Used To Be A Bipartisan Position. Not Anymore.
“The bipartisan support among voters and the fact that the 1968 election nearly produced a split between the popular vote and the Electoral College3 explain why there was bipartisan support in Congress in 1969 for a constitutional amendment to elect presidents based on the popular vote. The House passed it 339 to 70, with more than 80 percent of each party’s voting members lending their support. But small-state senators from both parties filibustered the amendment and it never got an up-or-down vote in the upper chamber.”
