Politics Would abolishing the electoral college actually stimulate voting?

[donkiez]

none of that would happen with a repuglican Senate. We're probably headed for 4 years of gridlock because the same asinine un-democratic right-wing skew of the electoral college is in place for the Senate

Yea I know. Maybe 2 years of division. I haven't looked at the 22 mid term potential numbers but I expect a 2 year battle to each party blaming each other for not getting anything done. Probably depends on who wins that narrative.

 

[Hoopguru]

Nature will change the electoral college.....blue state voters houses have burned down in the west....they'll be relocating to Wyoming, Montana and Idaho and Texas...just watch

and leave all the radicle progressives in Oregon, Wa & Ca. The democratic party needs to split if then want to pick up more house & senate seats. Man Dem voters wont endorse, defunding police, green deal open borders.

 

[ehizzy3]

and leave all the radicle progressives in Oregon, Wa & Ca. The democratic party needs to split if then want to pick up more house & senate seats. Man Dem voters wont endorse, defunding police, green deal open borders.

open borders? *face palm*

 

[Natebishop3]

he barely squeaked by in the electoral vote contest

Eh, I agree that she beat his ass in the popular, but he had quite a few more EC votes than her. He had 305 and she had 227.

 

[ehizzy3]

Eh, I agree that she beat his ass in the popular, but he had quite a few more EC votes than her. He had 305 and she had 227.

by thousands of votes

 

[e_blazer]

they need to review and change the number of electoral votes the states currently have if they don’t want to change it

The numbers are spelled out in the Constitution. You can't change it without an amendment and that isn't going to happen. The National Popular Vote Initiative is the most likely thing that could provide an end-around to the EC: https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

Seems like a banana republic kind of move to circumvent the Constitution like that, but it may be legal since the method of selecting the electors is left to the individual states in the Constitution. It would undoubtedly go the the Supreme Court because the less populous states would scream bloody murder to lose their clout. I suspect it would implode the first time a Republican managed to win the popular vote and all of those Democrat states had to give their electoral votes to the Republican candidate.

 

[Lanny]

Have you ever worked in a field?

No. Have you ever worked on a construction site or in an office?
Does doing yard work from 7 am to 8 pm without breakfast or a lunch break on Saturdays and Sundays count as field work?

 

[HailBlazers]

No. Have you ever worked on a construction site or in an office?
Does doing yard work from 7 am to 8 pm without breakfast or a lunch break on Saturdays and Sundays count as field work?

Exactly.

Yes I've worked construction, farming, landscaping. But for the past 11 years in the city/office/tech.

 

[Lanny]

Trump Floats Improbable Survival Scenarios as He Ponders His Future

"At a meeting on Wednesday at the White House, President Trump had something he wanted to discuss with his advisers, many of whom have told him his chances of succeeding at changing the results of the 2020 election are thin as a reed.

He then proceeded to press them on whether Republican legislatures could pick pro-Trump electors in a handful of key states and deliver him the electoral votes he needs to change the math and give him a second term, according to people briefed on the discussion."

Correct me if I'm wrong but the EC allows faithless electors to do what Trump wants here: disregard their state votes and cast their votes to whichever candidate they chose. What Trump allegedly inquired about here is a bit of a different scenario, but it sure seems like we put a lot of faith on these electors to not break their pledge.

If enough legislators overruled the voters' choice and there were no capitulation by those of the voters' choice then the decision would be decided by Congress, if they couldn't agree then it Speaker Pelosi would assume the role of President. Therefor I'm going to assume that the legislators would either keep out of it or the Republican Senate would concur that Biden was our President. I just can't see Republicans wanting Nancy Pelosi as our President.