Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Friday made his case for eliminating the Electoral College and bragged about how he argues against the presidential election system in low-population states such as Iowa.
“Whether you are in D.C. or Puerto Rico, you deserve the same political representation,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor told attendees at a grassroots fundraiser in Alexandria, Va. The crowd cheered, to which Buttigieg added, “for the record, I have been saying that in Iowa, not just out here.”
Opponents of the Electoral College often argue that individual votes for president from lower-population states such as Iowa count more than those from high-population states like New York and California. Each state has two guaranteed Electoral college votes, because each state has two senators, plus votes equal to the number of members in the House of Representatives from that state, which is based on population. Most states assign all electoral college votes for president to the candidate who won the popular vote in that state.
Buttigieg has made eliminating the Electoral College a campaign issue. “States don’t vote, people vote, and everyone’s vote should count exactly the same. The Electoral College has to go,” his website says.
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Notice how democrats want changes in laws specifically designed to stop Trump? Can’t win by the rules, change the rules, eh?
When are citizens groups going to take the states that are hating on the constitution to court to overturn these pukes?
Your state votes overwhemingly for a democrat but the national popular vote goes to a republican, how is your vote then counted if they toss your entire states weight to the mob rule? I guess Democrats hate the low population states, dont want them to have voice for President.
These leftist candidates all vow to change the Republics established by the Founding Fathers, the system that has resulted in the most prosperous and powerful nation on earth, into something more capable of turning into socialism. They have all but given up completely on ever winning a legal, fair election ever again.
@kitt:
If that happens, they’ll merely vote to reverse the effect of the popular vote. Because we’re a Republic, not a Democracy.
@Deplorable Me: It should be challenged before 2020 play by the rules or dont let them play at all throw thier electoral into the bin.
@kitt: No one should tell the electors how they have to vote. They have always been free to vote whichever way they wanted, but the proper thing to do is vote the way the state went.
The way the Dems have their ploy set up, the “send our state’s electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote,” doesn’t happen UNTIL they have a majority of the EC.
So, it will not have any effect in 2020 UNLESS Dems have collected more states than the 270 EC votes to win.
They want to spring it on the public full-grown or not at all.
Nevada’s Dem gov threw them a monkey wrench by not signing the bill for his state when he had a chance.
The guy saw that Nev would be disenfranchised and said, “No.”