Op-ed:
The Electoral College: The Vote Equalizer v. Mob Rule
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
“A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from
the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and
discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.”
- Alexander Hamilton’s words in Federalist #68 in defense of the Electoral College
Civics lessons are boring I know, but sometimes a civics lesson is desperately needed especially in a contentious political season. And
with the all-important midterm elections fast approaching, and with the
midterms actually being a referendum on not only President Trump's
agenda and policies, but most importantly on the 2020 presidential
election itself, a civics lesson might not be so boring after all. So
let's start this article with the fact that in today's America without
the Electoral College being kept in place the blue states of California,
New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Michigan would most likely be
deciding each and every presidential election.
Thankfully our Founders and Framers had the foresight to look towards
the future and realize that population strongholds...especially those
with a decidedly biased political party leaning...must never be the
determining factor in the outcome of any given presidential election.
These wise men understood that to serve the needs of the entire country
presidential candidates needed to build both campaign platforms and
agendas with a national focus in mind, and so it was decided that all
citizens no matter where in our country they might live must be part of a
leveled playing field when casting their vote. This realization of what
is actually
“voter equality” is basically what led our Founders and
Framers to create the Electoral College.
In fact, during the debates over the Constitution's framework,
Alexander Hamilton was one of the first to support the concept of an
Electoral College with his saying that electors would bring
“greater
wisdom” to presidential selection as these men would be
“most capable of
analyzing the qualities adapted to the station and acting under
circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination
of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their
choice,” while other of the Constitution’s Framers viewed the Electoral
College as the definitive protection of state power.
And how so...by the very process in which the electors themselves were chosen
and in how their votes were cast. As per the Constitution,
“Each State
shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a
Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and
Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.”
Simply stated, each individual state sends electors of their choosing
to the Electoral College with each state having one elector for each
Representative and one for each Senator with Washington DC allowed three
electors as established by the Twenty-Third Amendment. Today that
choosing is usually done by the major political parties nominating
electors at their state conventions or sometimes choosing them by a vote
of the party's central committee.
And our Founders and Framers hoped that those chosen would cast their
vote to stop the election of any candidate they felt would have
“threatened to centralize power in the federal government” and thus take
power away from the states as this would then be something that would go
against the very concept of our newly formed republic.
Remember always that our country was set up to be a republic and not a
democracy... which you can read about in my recent article
Republic v. Democracy...America v. Mob Rule...meaning that the Electoral College was
needed to help assure that our country remain a republic.
And so our Constitution's actual Framers created the Electoral
College as a compromise between electing the president via a Congressional vote or via the
"popular vote" as they instead wisely
decided to equalize the interests of both the high and low population
states, thus making each state and each vote equal to the other when it
comes to voting for president. And in 1788, Article II of the
Constitution...which also established the executive branch...was put
into place. And Article II has been amended three times via the Twelfth,
Fourteenth, and Twenty-Third Amendments...on June 15, 1804; in July of
1868; and on March 29, 1961 respectively.
Now having put into place a system where the (what is today 538)
members of what was to be called the Electoral College would be the
ones to determine a presidential election's final winner and loser, our Founders and Framers officially cast aside the idea of a so-called
“popular vote” ever determining presidential elections...voting numbers
that today would usually equate to the five aforementioned Democrat
dominated states. And know that in the era of modern day politics it's
only been the Democrat party...the party that constantly loves to talk
about equality...who wants to do away with the Electoral College and its
call for voting equality as they simply cannot deal with the fact that
they had to lick their wounds not only with Bush v. Gore in 2000 but had
to do so again in 2016 with Donald Trump trouncing Hillary Clinton in
that all-important Electoral College vote.
So the Electoral College has now become to the Democrats part of the
enemy front...the other part being Republicans and Conservatives in
general...that denied them their ability to give Barack HUSSEIN Obama
via Hillary Clinton his third term in office and hence it must be done
away with.
But whether the Democrats like it or not the Constitution is still
the law of our land, and as per the Constitution the person who receives
the most electoral votes (today that number is 270)
becomes the next president even if they do not receive a
“plurality” (the
total number of votes cast for a given candidate who receives more than
any other candidate but who does not receive an absolute 51% majority)
or an absolute
“majority” of the
"popular vote." This is exactly what happened
with Richard M. Nixon in 1968 and Billy-Boy Clinton in 1992, when both men
won the most electoral votes while receiving just 43% of the popular
vote.
And what most folks forget is that every third party candidate and every fringe
candidate's numbers must also be tallied into the total votes cast,
thereby making it nearly impossible for any one candidate to garner the
needed 51% majority of the
"popular vote"...the very number
needed to be the
“majority”
winner. And it's about time that sore loser Hillary Clinton and her
assorted ilk, no matter their bloviations to the contrary, must accept
as fact that she only received a
“plurality” (48%) not a
“majority” of
the vote as third party and fringe candidates took the remainder of that
much needed three percent number, thus denying Hillary from ever reaching a true
“majority.”
Simply, Donald J. Trump received 304 Electoral College votes and 46.09%
of the
"popular vote" (62,984,825 votes), and Hillary Clinton received 227
Electoral College votes and 48.18% of the
"popular vote" (65,853,516
votes), that is if you count the illegal vote, the dead vote, and those
who voted more than once.
But seriously, abandoning the Electoral College in favor of someone
winning the presidency with only a
“plurality” of the
"popular vote" would
see a cacophony of fringe candidates entering the race solely to deny
major party candidates, whose agenda they do not agree with, from being
elected...or worse...doing so in the hope that they themselves could drive such a deep
wedge between the major party voters...after all what are they but
spoilers...that they would gain for themselves a
“plurality” even if
it's only by one vote.
So while the Democrats and of course some wayward Rinos are currently trying to do away with the Electoral College, know there
are other reasons why it should remain in place besides the critical
way in which it levels out the voting playing field. And some of those other key reasons are that the Electoral College helps to negate demands
for run-off elections; it sometimes helps to give the president-elect a mandate and thus more credibility; it encourages political stability via
a reasonable certainty as to how the government will run according to
which party the president-elect comes from; it helps to maintain a
system of national representation for without said Electoral College
presidential candidates would spend their time campaigning only in high
population areas instead of equally across the nation; and it allows the
minority vote to possibly sway an election, something you'd think the
Democrats would like.
However, they don't, and it's only because Donald Trump will probably
win reelection if the Electoral College is kept in place. But if it was
replaced with a national
"popular vote" the Democrats surmise that a Democrat
candidate would stand a much better chance of becoming president
especially with Democrats currently outnumbering Republicans by 12 million
registered voters...with 40% being Democrat, 29% being Republican, and
28% being Independent. And dare we not forget that the aforementioned
illegals most assuredly vote Democratic...freebies and handouts are truly a
big lure after all.
So the bottom is this...the Electoral College must stay in place not only
because it was designed to solve the problem of population distribution
when voting in a presidential election, but also because without it our
republic would surely be gone to be replaced by the Democrats version of
democracy...in other words
“mob rule.”
End of yet another important civics lesson...boring I know but oh so critical at this juncture in time especially with 2020 drawing ever so near.
Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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