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  Democrats Are Dangerously Close To Changing Laws So Our President Is Elected By Popular Vote
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Last EditedRP  Jul 30, 2022 12:17pm
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AuthorAndrew Morgan
News DateThursday, July 28, 2022 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe left is at it again, and conservatives need to be on high alert. The left has been pushing for a national popular vote to elect the president of the United States for years. Since 2017, 10 more states have either signed the National Popular Vote bill into law or approved the bill in one state legislative chamber. This should be a grave concern because it directly undermines the electoral system established by our Constitution. If not stopped, the American system of presidential elections will be changed potentially forever.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It has been enacted by 15 state legislatures plus Washington, D.C., and passed in 41 legislative chambers in 24 states. For the proposal to become the law of the land, enough states totaling at least 270 electoral votes would be required to enact the law, and states would then commit their electoral votes to the candidate with the most popular votes nationally, regardless of which candidate won at the state level.
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D:6086Jason (13430.6523 points)
Tue, August 2, 2022 02:36:08 PM UTC0:00
Considering the very system the founders created led to a civil war less than 80 years later, it's hardly a system that should ever be celebrated as a barometer of stability. Particularly when the "minority" in question to be protected (slavers and rural agrarian states) dipped when things briefly didn't go their way in one election.
 
D:8255My Congressman is a Weiner ( -19.7986 points)
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Tue, August 2, 2022 02:41:16 PM UTC0:00
Having a heterogeneous culture is not an argument for the EC. Plenty of states have the same thing in microcosm and still vote by popular vote for governor, etc.

Every election has a winner, but that doesn't make one culture "dominate".
 
D:7CA Pol Junkie ( 5444.7002 points)
Tue, August 2, 2022 03:21:27 PM UTC0:00
My Congressman is a Weiner: Having a heterogeneous culture is not an argument for the EC. Plenty of states have the same thing in microcosm and still vote by popular vote for governor, etc.

Exactly. The electoral college makes possible the cultural domination within states: the Bay Area and Los Angeles make interior California irrelevant; white voters in many southern states make African-American voters irrelevant. Tens of millions of voters nationwide are effectively disenfranchised by cultural domination because of the electoral college.