1ºIn 1970, 3 Southern segregationist Senators used the filibuster to kill a national popular vote for President.
Now we also need to support professional election officials and candidates and lawmakers who support voting rights and respect election results, and guarantee the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in the country, by making every vote in every state matter and count equally, by supporting the National Popular Vote bill and state legislators in states with the 75 more electoral votes needed to enact it.
Most Americans think it is wrong that every vote is not equal and the candidate with the most national popular votes can lose.
Unfair election systems can lead to politicians and their enablers who appreciate unfairness, which leads to more unfairness, and sometimes crimes.
The sheer magnitude of the national popular vote number, compared to individual state vote totals, is much more robust against “pure insanity,” deception, and manipulation.
If as few as 11,000 voters in Arizona (11 electors), 12,000 in Georgia (16), and 22,000 in Wisconsin (10) had not voted for Biden, or partisan officials did not certify the actual counts -- Trump would have won despite Biden's nationwide lead of more than 7 million.
The Electoral College would have tied 269-269.
Congress, with only 1 vote per state, would have decided the election, regardless of the popular vote in any state or throughout the country.
It’s because of current state-by-state statewide winner-take-all laws for Electoral College votes, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution.
In 2016, Trump became President even though Clinton won the national popular vote by 2,868,686 votes.
Trump won the Presidency because he won Michigan by 11,000 votes, Wisconsin by 23,000 votes, and Pennsylvania by 44,000 votes.
Each of these 78,000 votes was 36 times more important than Clinton's nationwide lead of 2,868,686 votes.
537 popular votes won Florida and the White House for Bush in 2000, despite Gore's lead of 537,179 (1,000 times more) popular votes nationwide.
The National Popular Vote bill is states with 270+ electoral votes agreeing to award their electoral votes to the winner of the most national popular votes, by simply again changing their state’s law.
All votes would be valued equally in presidential elections, no matter where voters live.
Before states began enacting new voter suppression and election subversion laws, the system with 2020 election laws meant that the winning 2024 candidate “may need a national popular vote win of 5 percentage points or more in order to squeak out an electoral college victory. Only once has the margin of popular vote victory been that large since Bill Clinton's re-election,” Jacob Long
“If Republicans are building the infrastructure to subvert an election — to make it possible to overturn results or keep Democrats from claiming electoral votes — then we have to expect that given a chance, they’ll use it.” – Jamelle Bouie
When presidential candidates, who more Americans vote for, lose the Electoral College, the situation is unsustainable. This is how a government loses its legitimacy.
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2ºAmericans want AMERICA FIRST, energy independence with our own oil , gas and coal production, we want NO subsidizing of "emerging" economies - THE EU , INDIA , CHINA AND RUSSIA , with the corrupt green new deal agreed to by corrupt Biden which is destroying the US economy and the future of our children with runaway inflation, we want secured cities with police and laws , we want a secured border with no criminals, drugs and terrorists entering the US unchecked , and WE WANT LEGAL ELECTIONS, with voter IDs , accountable ,traceable in person votes at the voting polls . WE DO NOT WANT MARXIST COMMUNIST TO TAKE OVER AMERICA ..Democrats don't have a chance in 2022-24.
3ºA democrat has won the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 presidential elections, but nevertheless a Republican was president 12 of the last 20 years... Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years.
They have depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation.
In the last nine presidential elections, 1992-2020, the Republican candidates’ largest share of the popular vote was 50.7 percent in 2004
A president who twice lost the popular vote by millions and who was impeached TWICE has chosen a quarter of all federal judges and a third of the Supreme Court. Trump is the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over the loss of the White House, the House and the Senate in a single term and was the first since Andrew Johnson to boycott his successor’s inauguration. Long before cars...or light bulbs.
Democracy anyone? If this country has issues with voting determining outcomes, the answer lies FAR from Fulton County, GA. or Pennsylvania, or Arizona etc., etc.
Even before the coronavirus, the United States had made it harder to vote than any other affluent democracy:
* The United States is one of only seven countries in the 37-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that don’t hold elections on a weekend or a holiday.
* While many countries put citizens on the voter rolls by default or promote voter registration, signing up to vote here is a cumbersome, opt-in process.
* Many Americans intentionally find out too late that they cannot cast a ballot because they lack photo ID or were erroneously purged from voter rolls, and millions more are made automatically ineligible because they were convicted of a crime.
* Shortages of equipment and poll workers often cause unreasonably long waits, especially for Black voters. In the 2016 election, voters in Black neighborhoods waited 29 percent longer on average than voters in white neighborhoods, according to one study...
The most consistent threat to our democracy has always been the drive of some leaders to restrict its blessings to a select few…
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5ºIt is utterly amazing that so many people have no idea how our government was set up. The house and the Senate were to be: the House was intended to be the peoples’ house with the smaller districts so individuals would have more of a say. The Senate, with two from each state, to represent each state. The 2 Senators were originally appointed by each state’s legislature. To protect states rights. The 17th Amendment changed that and made Senators elected state wide. The filibuster was instituted to keep the majority from running roughshod over the minority. We are slowly destroying our republic for perceived little selfish gains without looking at the big picture.
This is going to destroy this experiment.