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Home Front: Politix
Dem Rep Proposes Constitutional Amendment to Eliminate ‘Outdated Electoral College’
2019-01-05
If they want to waste their time and goodwill for the next two years, who are we to point out that it’s a really dumb idea?
[FREEBEACON] Rep. Steve Cohen (D., Tenn) on Thursday proposed a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the "outdated Electoral College," saying he believes the individual who wins the popular vote deserves to win the election.

A blurb from Cohen's office listed the two amendments the congressman was introducing, including the elimination of the Electoral College and an amendment that would limit presidential pardon power.

"In two presidential elections since 2000, including the most recent one in which Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
 won 2.8 million more votes than her opponent, the winner of the popular vote did not win the election because of the distorting effect of the outdated Electoral College," said Cohen's blurb. "Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office. More than a century ago, we amended our Constitution to provide for the direct election of U.S. Senators. It is past time to directly elect our President and Vice President."

Posted by:Fred

#20  He's from Memphis so youll have to fogive him. Some of the most lazy stupid people in the world I have ever seen were in "Mimpis"
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-01-05 21:59  

#19  Rep. Steve Cohen (E), "E" for embarassment to TN and for EC legislation going nowhere.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-01-05 16:51  

#18  The EC is a leveling force to prevent NY and California from overpowering the other states

And then your really would get a civil war.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-05 15:24  

#17  Perhaps Rep. Steve Cohen (D., Tenn) will find he likes being a politician in Mexico more to his tastes.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-01-05 15:11  

#16  I will at least give him credit for realizing that a constitutional amendment is required.
Posted by: Tom   2019-01-05 14:24  

#15  Of course, that would mean that instead of all of California's votes going to Hillary, some of them would have gone to Trump.

That was then...
Recently, Cali made a change that the winners in a primary are not the highest one from each party, but the two highest overall. The result was races where both candidates were Dems.

I don't know if this applies only to state elections. If it does apply to national voting, then it effectively locks out the minority party.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-01-05 13:20  

#14  "must be changed by extra-Constitutional means."

Luckily, we have Constitutional means to prevent this, thanks to the Second Amendment. If they try to impose by force, they will die by force of arms.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-01-05 13:00  

#13  Destruction of the form of government known as a REPUBLIC. The Democrats want mob (majority) rule, and no ability for individuals to hold any rights in opposition to the power of the state and the agitated masses.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-01-05 12:58  

#12  #10 some states do that now.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-05 12:22  

#11  Californian Republicans should offer up that proposal to make the Californian Electoral College vote more democratic.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-05 12:01  

#10  The Constitution doesn't say that all of a state's electoral college votes have to go to the winner in that state. States could choose to have the winner in each congressional district get that district's vote, and the two other votes could go to whoever got a plurality in the state.

Of course, that would mean that instead of all of California's votes going to Hillary, some of them would have gone to Trump.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-01-05 10:45  

#9  What Frank G said.
Posted by: Angaiper Slinerong2336   2019-01-05 10:35  

#8  Time to stop thinking of politicians from Detroit, Minneapolis, New York City, Nashville, Austin, Atlanta, Missoula and other finance centers / college towns as synonymous for the states they reside in. Rather than needing the Electoral College to be abolished, we need it at instituted the state level too.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-05 09:59  

#7  Tennessee should kick his ass. The EC is a leveling force to prevent NY and California from overpowering the other states
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-05 08:08  

#6  Cruz apparently also introduced an amendment for term limits for Congress. I suspect that actually has a chance in hell of passing.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-01-05 08:07  

#5  ...they've been using SCOTUS to do that for a generation or two. Who needs no stinkn' Article V.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-05 07:41  

#4  Fun part will be when, having found they can't meet the Constitutional threshold, they argue the Constitutional threshold must be changed by extra-Constitutional means.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-05 07:23  

#3  I recommend contacting Christopher Steele and Nellie Ohr.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-05 03:20  

#2  Just change everything to a Parliamentary System -- be brave!! Eliminate the Senate and the Electoral College, then make the Office of the President ceremonial... Voila! The Speaker of the House becomes the most powerful officer... see, wasn't that easy?
Posted by: magpie   2019-01-05 03:13  

#1  Might as well throw in a pony while they're at it.
Posted by: gorb   2019-01-05 00:27  

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