Our Electoral College

By Robin Itzler

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 The more you listen to Marxist Democrats speak, the more you realize their goal is to dismantle our country and create a gulag utopia. Should President Trump win the electoral college but not the popular vote, expect more chatter and possibly protests about scraping the electoral college.

Our Founding Fathers wisely created the electoral college, which is why we are the United States of America and not just America. Since our nation’s founding, there have been five times when the electoral college and popular vote did not coincide:

• 1824—Andrew Jackson vs John Quincy Adams Jackson won the popular vote by 7.8 percent but lost the electoral college.
• 1876—Samuel Tilden vs Rutherford Hayes Tilden won the popular vote by 3 percent but lost the electoral college.
• 1888—Grover Cleveland vs Benjamin Harris Cleveland won the popular vote by 0.8 percent but lost the electoral college.
• 2000—Al Gore vs George W. Bush Gore won the popular vote by 0.5 percent, but “hanging chads” anyone?
• 2016—Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1 percent but, well you know that story!

Don’t lose sleep over Marxist Democrat threats to remove the electoral college. It would be extremely difficult for Democrats to get rid of the system that has served us well since our nation’s founding. 

First, it would require a constitutional amendment approved by two-thirds of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate AND three-fourths of all states. 

What some have proposed is for states to proportionally allocate electoral votes. Currently, Maine and Nebraska have forms of proportional assignment of electoral votes. Do you think more states will choose to do this? It is doubtful that blue states like California or New York would want to give any of their electoral votes to a Republican. This is another reason why Democrats have their eyes on Texas. If they can flip that state, it wouldn’t matter how other red or swing states vote.