The National Popular vote is gaining momentum by the Democrats that have a problem with everything in our country under Trump. Founding Fathers...forget about them. Now that the Democrats realize none of their candidates can beat Donald Trump such as Beethoven Beto the Bozo, they want to go with a popular vote. To this day, they have not accepted the results of the 2016 election and have done everything possible to derail Trump's presidency. If you can't win with the Constitution, just change the state law and go around the Constitution, they say. It's an immoral group, I say.
[NationalPopularVote] "States such as California (55), New York (29), Illinois (20), Pennsylvania (20), Michigan (16) could win the election just on the popular vote alone because of the population."
40 million people live in the Sanctuary state of California and in the 2016 general election it was won by Democrat Hillary Clinton with a 61.7% majority of the popular vote and this vote was what caused her to win the national popular vote overall. In New York state, populated and controlled by Democrats, 59% of the voters went for Hillary. Colorado just passed a Popular vote into law. Essentially, just a few states could control who wins the Presidency.
"The National Popular Vote bill would take effect when enacted into law by states possessing 270 electoral votes (a majority of the 538 electoral votes). It has been enacted into law in 13 jurisdictions possessing 181 electoral votes (CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA). The bill will take effect when enacted by states possessing an additional 89 electoral votes. Colorado, a Democrat controlled state, just passed this legislation.
The National Popular Vote bill has now passed a total of 36 state legislative chambers in 23 states. In 2019 the bill has passed both legislative chambers in New Mexico and Delaware, and in prior years it has also passed one legislative chamber in 8 states possessing 72 electoral votes (AR, AZ, ME, MI, NC, NV, OK, OR). It has been unanimously approved at the committee level in 2 states possessing 27 electoral votes (GA, MO). The National Popular Vote bill has been introduced in various years in all 50 states."
Why we need the Electoral College
On the map below, each square represents one electoral vote (out of 538). [NationalPopularVote]
Democrats don't want a 2 party system, 3 or 4, they want to be a dictatorship. Unfortunately their party has been consumed by radical socialists.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump doesn't like the Electoral College either. Even said so during his campaign and before he started his campaign.
ReplyDeleteHe did say that--way before he thought it through. He says his campaign strategy would have been much different if we decided the presidency on the popular vote. Personally, with California and New York controlling the crazies, no matter how he campaigned he would have lost to Hillary. IMO
ReplyDeleteDemocrats are trying very hard to turn TX and FL blue.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia and New York state together would not dominate the choice of President under National Popular Vote because there is an equally populous group of Republican states (with 58 million people) that gave Trump a similar percentage of their vote (60%) and a similar popular-vote margin (6 million).
ReplyDeleteIn 2016, New York state and California Democrats together cast 9.7% of the total national popular vote.
California & New York state account for 16.7% of the voting-eligible population
Alone, they could not determine the presidency.
In total New York state and California cast 16% of the total national popular vote
In total, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania cast 18% of the total national popular vote.
Trump won those states.
The vote margin in California and New York wouldn't have put Clinton over the top in the popular vote total without the additional 60 million votes she received in other states.
In 2004, among the four largest states, the two largest Republican states (Texas and Florida) generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Bush, while the two largest Democratic states generated a total margin of 2.1 million votes for Kerry.
New York state and California together cast 15.7% of the national popular vote in 2012.
About 62% Democratic in CA, and 64% in NY.
New York and California have 15.6% of Electoral College votes. Now that proportion is all reliably Democratic.
Under a popular-vote system CA and NY would have less weight than under the current system because their popular votes would be diluted among candidates.
If you count up the popular vote of the 2018 congressional elections, using the current statewide winner-take-all laws, it’s the same exact map by which Obama defeated Mitt Romney in 2012, except with Ohio (18) going to Republicans. It would have equated to 314 electoral votes for Democrats and 224 for the GOP.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to put that all together. Even with your expertise, I couldn't figure it out for myself, but I appreciate someone else doing it for me.
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