Reich writes: "It looks like Hillary Clinton is going to win the popular vote by a sizable margin. She now has a 2.4 million-vote lead. That's a margin of 1.8 percent. I suspect the final tally will be 2.5 million, giving her a margin of 2 percent."
Robert Reich. (photo: unknown)
The Dangers of the Electoral College
02 December 16
t looks like Hillary Clinton is going to win the popular vote by a sizable margin. She now has a 2.4 million-vote lead. That's a margin of 1.8 percent. I suspect the final tally will be 2.5 million, giving her a margin of 2 percent.
Clinton lost the Electoral College due to incredibly tiny losses in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. We don't know the results of a recount but at this point the cumulative difference in those states is just 107,330 votes. Think about that. 107,330 votes out of 135 million votes cast. 107,330 is about the capacity of a football stadium.
Now think about the damage Trump and his band are about to wreak on the nation.
Besides stopping all we can of this onslaught, we must also prevent anything like this from happening again. No more Electoral College outcomes different from the popular vote.
We can accomplish this without a constitutional amendment. Just get states to pass laws committing their electors to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the most votes in the nation as a whole. (See here.)
What do you think?
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You advice is germane, even as your geography, (and that of your 5 "fans" on the green thumb bar), absolutely sucks.
Fort Collins is a highly progressive town, and the home of Colorado State University. Ft. Collins is 60 miles *NORTH* of Denver.
As one who claims to be a former teacher, it is hard to believe that this fact just plumb evaded you. After all, anyone can make a mistake, but isn't that what the internet is *for*? Aren't teachers fond of attention to actual facts ?
The freakin' *ACTUAL* Air Force Academy is located 71 miles SOUTH of Denver in the city of Colorado Springs. It is not only heavily populated by military, but it is an absolute MECCA for Evangelical Christians, who hold INCREDIBLE power in the community, and who have QUITE successfully invaded the USAF Academy, even when doing so is supposed to be against military regs.
So, yeah .... you can comfortably recommend Fort Collins, so that your correspondent DOESN'T end up in Colorado Spring !!
Talk about "out of the frying pan, into the fire" ! ;-D
Close, tho - the two cities ARE in the same State, but they are roughly *130* miles apart.
I'm for a Supreme Court that defines citizenship as related to the whole country and not every little fuctup red state that wants to secede. Either our constitutional rights are protected or not. Hiding behind a misconstruction of the First Amendment does little to hide their hatred toward equality and justice.
PS: My parents had moved South only because Dad's company was sending its elder engineers to Sunbelt (Southern) states, thinking they'd prefer to retire there. But they detested Florida, too, never went to church -- dismally Fundamentalist! -- and as soon as Dad retired in 1965 they put their house up for sale. Florida is always in a dreary depression so it took 4 years, but finally they were able to move back North. Best move they ever made. They enlivened their rural Iowa town with liberal ideas & actions! GET UP AND GO.
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