Even after winning the popular vote, Democrats are hell-bent on the destruction of one of the last vestiges of our Republic. It is a Republic, not a Democracy, but absent the Electoral College, Presidential elections would be decided by popular vote, which, if you’re looking for a reason not to do that, I give you the US Senate.
The 17th Amendment erased a critical layer of federalism that made US Senators beholden to their states, not lobbyists and special interests. Senators who voted incorrectly could be recalled and replaced immediately by any state legislature, which was the most current reflection of the people’s will. Post-17th, incumbent Senators are almost impossible to remove, enriching themselves while amassing generational debt without much concern over its effect on the nation, our posterity, or their stint in office. Absent the 17th, New Hampshire would have had Republican US Senators most of the last decade.
Related: Repeal the 17th Amendment: The Anti-Federalist Warnings We Must Not Ignore
The Electoral College
Dick Durbin has decided that now is the time to advance a Constitutional Amendment to remove the Electoral College.
Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment on Dec. 16 that would abolish the Electoral College and ensure the country’s presidential elections were determined by the popular vote.
“It is time to retire this 18th-century invention that disenfranchises millions of Americans,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a press release.
There is a similar bill in the US House, and there is, believe it or not, probably bi-partisan support. If a version of an Amendment manages to get out of Congress two, two-thirds of states would have to approve it, and that seems unlikely, but this is still an opportunity. What do your state’s members of Congress think about this?
Ian Underwood: Let’s keep the Electoral College, and eliminate the popular vote for President
My Republican-run state has a Dem Federal Delegation. If we remove the Electoral College, every vote in New Hampshire gets erased by New York City. Every vote in all of New England is erased by New York City. The same is true for any area near a large urban area. We would effectively be taking the travesty of Democrats deciding the fate of states with vast rural areas and going national.
Small states no longer matter. The First in the Nation Primary no longer serves any purpose. Presidential Candidates need only travel to big cities to win elections. Retail politics is dead.
Given how the New Hampshire Democratic Party lost their first in the nation primary, I doubt they’d much care if New Hampshire even mattered anymore on the Presidential calendar. Why should they care about any of that?
I guess we’ll get to find out.
