Beto O’Rourke has joined Elizabeth Warren in calling for the elimination of the electoral college, saying “there’s a lot of wisdom” in that. And 16-year-olds should vote too, right? Also, a new poll has come out labeling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the “villain” of the Amazon debacle in New York, and she doesn’t like that at all. Plus, Trump weighs in on another incident of social media bias against conservatives.
Elizabeth Warren, on Monday, called for the elimination of the electoral college. When asked about the topic at a speech on Tuesday, Beto O’Rourke said the same thing, but with his strange, noncommittal style.
He said, “If we really want everyone to vote, to give them every reason to vote, we have to make sure their votes count and go to the candidate of their choosing. So I think there’s a lot of wisdom in that.”
Also in today’s show, another poll has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the losing end. This one surveys New Yorkers and gets their feelings on the failed Amazon deal. AOC is definitely the “villain” according to New Yorkers. Check out today’s show for all the details.
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Of course they do – then they could dispense with campaigning in all the States but California and New York, and we would effectively have one-party rule, until the country collapses.
yes . . . that’s why they want it. And the 16 year old vote? They would then set up voting booths in high schools and give out free milkshakes if you vote democrat!
ANd why they wanna up the # of seats on the scotus to 15.. SO THEY CAN rule everything.
You’ve got that right.
In 2016 Hillary bought the Party debt, and effectively owned (owns?) the Democrat National Committee.
If she would have won the Electoral College there would be no need for Federal elections going forward.
The Party dissenters (The Bernese) were literally disenfranchised and silenced. (It is odd that Democrats don’t recognize that when it really happens.)
It looks like Bernie took a fall for a payoff. Let’s face it, he never wanted the work that the office requires. That was a close one though…..He almost had a job. He reminds me of Captain Kangaroo meets Ray Milland from The Lost Weekend.
Jimmy Harris Sadly, too many school kids would feel obligated to mobilize without the milkshakes. K-12 Indoctrination has it’s consequences.
Bernie had a much better shot at winning. He was drawing stadium crowds just like Trump. Hillary couldn’t pack a small library, and that was with her paid entourage of sycophants.
I still think Trump would have torn Bernie apart after that, but at least Bernie had a real non-inflated chance going into the thing. Hillary’s numbers were all smoke and mirrors. Nobody likes her.
I’d HOPE trump would have torn Sanders a new one.. BUT with the # of useless idiots being cranked out of our so called colleges, i am not so optimistic these days..
No! We need the electoral college. If we got rid of the college the little state in the middle of the U.S. would be ignored and the main powers of the vote would be from the states with the largest amount of legal voters. The majority of the Democratic voters are in California and New York and the rest of the west coast and east coast and out number the middle of the country and wouldn’t be fair to them. The left wants to get rid of our president and change the rules to game unfairly the vote to power! Do we really want people that are willing to break our laws and rules just to benefit their narrative! No we don’t! If your willing to cheat to get power then your willing to screw the American public to gain more!
And imo all those calling for its abolishment, should be done for Sedition!
>> If we got rid of the college the little state in the middle of the U.S. would be ignored and the main powers of the vote would be from the states with the largest amount of legal voters. <<
Which is, of course, the whole purpose of the EC.
The smaller states are not going to allow California, Texas, Florida and New York to decide every national election and referendum.
And most of those ‘larger states’ also have the larger ILLEGAL alien population, hence why the dems are so hell bent on expanding voting rights to them!
It’s coming. One vote to one person eventually will be way of national elections. Thought in early days was people not aware enough to vote directly for president. Many now say”hey small states won’t be represented”. It’s the people in the states(individual person) that should vote directly for the president. The Senate “each gets 2 senators regardless how many people there” another process that will one day change. Now votes not equal.
Democrat wisdom. Socialism at its worst. Then comes communism
Dems have no wisdom.
You are right the only thing the demon party wants is total control over the people and to be able to force the people to do what they want, hello 1984, the demon-party is going to self destruct this nation and they will laugh while it happens drinking all the booze they can. Just watch the demon party wants the electoral college done away with as a means of retaining power for all time, the demons do NOT have the best interest if the country in mind they only want total power over the people.
Not going to happen. Not while we still have a country because if we change that, we change what kind of a country we are. We’re a Republic, not a Democracy and that was intentional. That’s why it works.
They’d have to change the Constitution in major ways to prevent the leftist from ruining the country. That’s why it’s there in the first place.
So this is un-American.
The Electoral college will not be eliminated, and that is not their goal anyway. Remember back when Colonel Hogan would tell his guys that he needed a “diversion” so he could execute the real mission? Same thing. It’s a diversion. We all watch the lackeys call for an elimination of the electoral college, the pundits talk about how difficult that would actually be and in reality won’t happen any time soon because of the difficulty of amending the Constitution and, in the meanwhile, liberal states are getting together to form pacts to cast all of their electoral votes in line with the popular vote, regardless of how the citizens in their states actually vote, which renders the Electoral College moot whether they abolish it or not. There is no civil war coming. We are already in the middle of it, with 11 states so far having seceded from the union.
And to me, those states all making those laws, need to be severely smacked down by the Scotus or being unconstitutional. AND IF even after the scotus makes that ruling (Hopefully), they STILL push ahead, there bloody well better be US marshals being sent INTO EACH of those states to castrate everyone in charge.
Amending the Constitution isn’t hard at all when both sides work together toward a common cause.
If you break down the country by counties, you’ll see that only a handful of counties have enough population to control the Popular Vote. Especially if those counties are predominately of one political party as these counties happen to be. Even the People’s Republic of California is under Socialist control because of a few counties that hold the majority of the State’s population. Democrats wish to eliminate the Electoral College so that “everyone’s vote counts”. Well, right now everyone has a voice and control in government whichever county they reside and that applies across the nation. Without the College, a Tyranny of a few counties will control the entire nation. Such was the Wisdom of the Founding Fathers, God Bless Them!
Only way they can win.
On a positive note.
Well… at least they are keeping us safe. For, no enemy who has been eying the take over of the United States will attack us as long as they see we are destroying ourselves from within.
We’ll just go into slavery ‘willingly.’ Then, all the whiners and dreamers will be at that time executed en masse. For they would be useless to the enemy taking us over. No need for a war if it keeps going this way. Just hand over the keys kiddies, and we will run you over with your own vehicle.
Liberalism = Collective Death Wish.
I wouldn’t call that “a positive note”.. IMO its laughable, and sickening at the same time.
It amazes me these people who want to run our lives have never even read the Constitution much less abide by it.
Don’t you mean, “Who want to RUIN our lives”!?!
Bobby, since you mentioned the founding of our Republic, what does need to happen is the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. That is a major vehicle permitting the democrats/socialists/progressives/what ever they’re called today to derive power.
I’d also like to repeal the 14th (get rid of that pesky anchor baby balloney), the 8th (get rid of that whole cruel and unusual punishment malarkey, as that’s what the left loves bringing up to stop executions of crooks), The 15th, to clarify “THIS RIGHT TO VOTE IS and always will ONLY be for citizens!”
The 20th, to impose term limits on EVERYONE in office. If the president has one, so should everyone.
And i’d completely get rid of the 27th..
They do not want the little guy to have an actual voice
Congress has 535 members The Electoral College is made up of the SAME 535 members so if you eliminate the electoral college you eliminate congress.pocahontas needs to understand how are constitution works. The candidate that wins the popular vote in a state wins ALL the electoral votes in that state. If we change the system as it is now the voter will have NO controll of who represents them
Knowing this dunce, he’d still want all the members of the house to remain, or better yet, increase in #, proportional to the population of their states, illegal invaders included. Just so the dems can INCREASE their hold on the house.
And further more, They do not want the little guy to have an actual voice but the little guy that agrees with them. It should be obvious to anyone that the little guy in central America his voice would never be heard.
Only member of the Politburo should be able to determine the next Secretary-General of the Communist Party. Anyone who objects will be sent to the gulags.
And when it comes time to vote, you will vote who we tell you to, or off to the gulags with you!
Two things come to mind over this article. First, if the electoral college is done away with, a candidate would only have to win the 10 most populated states. These states are also run by their over populated big cities which already cheats the rural residents out off their votes. These 10 states would also cheat the rest of the remaining 40 states out of their votes. This is no different than the old U.S.S.R. The second thing is this stupid idea about lowering the voting age to 16. I remember when they tried lowering the drinking age to 18 and incidents related to drunkenness went up and the government went back to age 21. It also reminds me of a movie made in the late 1960s called Wild In The Streets. Just like Obamacare reminded me of Logan’s Run made in the late 1970s.
Every argument FOR abolishing the Electoral College can also be used to argue for abolishing the U.S. Senate and for abolishing the individual U.S. states.
Beto and Warren are consummate LEFTISTS. Leftists are totalitarian in nature and eliminating the EC would guarantee a one party rule; that is exactly what democrats (leftists) seek and tirelessly work for. Make no mistake, those seeking the elimination the EC and rewriting our Constitution know exactly what they are doing and are a serious threat to the Republic.
They are lying to the American people telling them their vote will count if the Electoral College is done away with. If only one or two highly popular states were to decide an election no one anywhere else would turn out to vote. Any candidate espousing this or being cute by saying it needs to be discussed should not reach the primary.
I know, earlier last year, when the dems first started banding this insanity around, i looked at the #s.. Between, CA, NY, WA, OR and VA (all highly liberal states), that equates to almost 30% of the total population of the country (or something like that). If they controlled all the coastal states, how then could the entire rest of the country’s voices ever count??
They know the EC can’t be changed easily but are lying to make people think their vote will count more. They are manipulating the guilible.
And since their indoctrination centers have churnned them out by the thousands, there’s plenty of those gullible folks out there!
Great idea, liberal losers. After the war there won’t be many of you left to cheat your way to a win. We will be the winners.
There is a graphic online that shows how many voters are in LA county in California compared to the rest of the country. That one country out numbers about 8 other states by its self.
And Trump was the one who was going to abolish the Constitution, LOL!!!
To eliminate the electoral college is to take away the voices of ND, SD, Iowa, OK, WY, MT, NM, UT, etc., all of the middle America farming states. The number of people in LA alone would probably equal several states. Someone interested enough could research and demonstrate how the big cities would totally rule the political vote and dominate the nation’s officials. Probably the dead, illegals and the rest of the fraudulent votes could tip an election.
Well, LA county (as of 2017) was rated at 10.18 million population. Looking at
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/
That comes close to equalling the 9th most populus state, North Carolina. AND BEATS out 40 others..
Heck the least 10 states COMBINED barely come close to 10 mil between them…
A friend just sent me this today, it sums up why we need the electoral college.
Civics class is absent from public intellect.
America is a republic, if we can keep it.
ELECTORIAL COLLEGE is a safety net so that EVERYONE’s vote counts.
1: There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Trump won 3,084 of them. Clinton won 57.
2: There are 62 counties in New York State. Trump won 46 of them. Clinton won 16.
3: Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
4: In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond) Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
5: These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles. The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles.
6: When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.
Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of the country.
And this is WHY you have an Electoral College.
Hey Beto and Fauxcohontas — you want a system without Electoral Collage, there’s one less than 600 miles from DC (specifically in Ottawa) which shows why the EC was deemed (accurately) by the Founders as necessary, as well as why they ensured EC’s abolition to be the most shambolic thing ever devised outside of India.
How about you go there — non-return, especially since you have a kindred-soulless in 24 Sussex!?