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WHAT IS MEANT BY THE POPULAR VOTE?
Bollocks. You really need a course in American history!
The Electoral College, which decides the presidential elections, was slapped together by southern-states and foisted upon the north in order to obtain and sign a Constitution. Elements of the 12th Amendment that bonifies the Electoral College are to be found in the Constitution itself as signed in 1787.
You insist therefore in believing the crapola that the Constitution is like the Bible, handed down by God himself and therefore irrefutable. Wrong!
It's an historic document, and shows how the country was first formulated under pressure by southern-states to maintain slavery (which was the bedrock of their economy producing cotton for British and north American mills to make into cloth at the time a foremost necessity). It remains an historic document that is the backbone of our present democracy - but it is not a "patent".
It has mistakes and omissions that were later amended, but not all of them.
How so? With an Electoral College giving the southern-states the opportunity more votes than those states would EVER obtain in a popular-vote that was run uniformly and exclusively by a National Election Board across all american states at the time. (The means of communicating state presidential voting outcomes to Congress in DC was perilous at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.)
What is meant by "popular-vote"? This:
Today that popular-vote in the US is manipulated in two ways:
*By gerrymandering the vote for state-wide electoral office, and
*By the presidential-vote Electoral College that manipulates the ratio of popular-votes per EC-elector from state to state.
Gerrymandering exists since introduced in Massachusetts in 1812. As regards the latter, our founding-fathers originally established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. It was modified by means of the 12th Amendment into its present form. Which must be the longest historical-mistake of any "supposed democracy" on earth.
If depicted on a map where total-square feet size of a state were replaced by electoral-college vote percentages, the distortion of the popular-vote by the Electoral College would look like this:
Meaning Gerrymandering and the Electoral College are not only a corruptive distortions of election-voting reality, but also a fraud of the nation's democracy. Which is why the Electoral College must be discarded - and like every other democracy on earth today - replaced by a simple national popular-vote that decides the presidential election outcome ...
What you seem to have missed from Civics class:
The Electoral college was designed to incorporate both the representation of the citizens and the representation of the states, which is why it seems lopsided in low population states. It is by design.
Any argument against the Electoral college is, by default, an argument against the Senate. Both create lopsided representation for low population states. But again, that is as designed.
Bollocks. You really need a course in American history!
The Electoral College, which decides the presidential elections, was slapped together by southern-states and foisted upon the north in order to obtain and sign a Constitution. Elements of the 12th Amendment that bonifies the Electoral College are to be found in the Constitution itself as signed in 1787.
You insist therefore in believing the crapola that the Constitution is like the Bible, handed down by God himself and therefore irrefutable. Wrong!
It's an historic document, and shows how the country was first formulated under pressure by southern-states to maintain slavery (which was the bedrock of their economy producing cotton for British and north American mills to make into cloth at the time a foremost necessity). It remains an historic document that is the backbone of our present democracy - but it is not a "patent".
It has mistakes and omissions that were later amended, but not all of them.
How so? With an Electoral College giving the southern-states the opportunity more votes than those states would EVER obtain in a popular-vote that was run uniformly and exclusively by a National Election Board across all american states at the time. (The means of communicating state presidential voting outcomes to Congress in DC was perilous at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.)
What is meant by "popular-vote"? This:
In representative democracy, the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes received by a party, candidate or group of candidates, as opposed to the number of seats they win in an election of a nation's Representative Legislatures or Executive (President or Prime Minister).
Today that popular-vote in the US is manipulated in two ways:
*By gerrymandering the vote for state-wide electoral office, and
*By the presidential-vote Electoral College that manipulates the ratio of popular-votes per EC-elector from state to state.
Gerrymandering exists since introduced in Massachusetts in 1812. As regards the latter, our founding-fathers originally established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. It was modified by means of the 12th Amendment into its present form. Which must be the longest historical-mistake of any "supposed democracy" on earth.
If depicted on a map where total-square feet size of a state were replaced by electoral-college vote percentages, the distortion of the popular-vote by the Electoral College would look like this:
Meaning Gerrymandering and the Electoral College are not only a corruptive distortions of election-voting reality, but also a fraud of the nation's democracy. Which is why the Electoral College must be discarded - and like every other democracy on earth today - replaced by a simple national popular-vote that decides the presidential election outcome ...
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