11-11-2016, 06:10 PM
Sorry for the ambiguous title, but a movement with a goal of getting EC electors to install Hillary as president seems to be getting legs.
Reasons it could be a good thing:
The presidency was already given to the wrong person once in very recent history (Bush president, Gore won election.) This would avoid that happening a second time.
The winner of the popular vote would be president.
The president would not be a naive lunatic.
Reasons it could be a bad thing:
Feeds into the "the system is rigged" narrative, even though the winner of the popular vote not being president feels sort of rigged too.
Second amendment rights enthusiasts who supported Trump are given an excuse to "fight for their rights."
The Doomsday Machine occupies the oval office.
Final thought (is Springer still on tv and does he still do this, lol?):
I've always hated the EC, even though usually the popular vote winner is elected president. Part of the reason is I think it distorts the will of the people when the electoral college numbers are the focus and not the p.v. The last president who could really claim a "mandate" was probably Nixon in 1972. Usually the popular vote is very close, which indicates there should be more compromise and less partisanship in DC.
Do you feel a case can be made for electors in any state to vote for the winner of the national popular vote, or alternately to vote their conscience if their state was very close and not an overwhelming win?
Reasons it could be a good thing:
The presidency was already given to the wrong person once in very recent history (Bush president, Gore won election.) This would avoid that happening a second time.
The winner of the popular vote would be president.
The president would not be a naive lunatic.
Reasons it could be a bad thing:
Feeds into the "the system is rigged" narrative, even though the winner of the popular vote not being president feels sort of rigged too.
Second amendment rights enthusiasts who supported Trump are given an excuse to "fight for their rights."
The Doomsday Machine occupies the oval office.
Final thought (is Springer still on tv and does he still do this, lol?):
I've always hated the EC, even though usually the popular vote winner is elected president. Part of the reason is I think it distorts the will of the people when the electoral college numbers are the focus and not the p.v. The last president who could really claim a "mandate" was probably Nixon in 1972. Usually the popular vote is very close, which indicates there should be more compromise and less partisanship in DC.
Do you feel a case can be made for electors in any state to vote for the winner of the national popular vote, or alternately to vote their conscience if their state was very close and not an overwhelming win?
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
