I mean, are we really shocked by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) being all for it when it comes to electing future presidents. He wants to get rid of the Electoral College and move toward a nationwide system based solely on the popular vote. Since 2016, the left has been experiencing mourning as epic as Hillary Clinton’s after her loss to Donald Trump in 2016. It wasn’t that they had a bad candidate or a shoddy agenda or ignored half the country – it was because the Electoral College blocked them or something. Either that Trump cheated or the Russians. It’s still a unhappy, pathetic exercise. And no, this is not about transparency or the right to vote. Attacking the Electoral College is just another proxy way for liberal America to attack red states and their voters. You see it all the time. Why does Wyoming have the same number of senators as California, a state that really matters? Yes, and these are the people who lecture us about equal representation, voting rights, etc. It’s a joke. Give a liberal enough time and he or she will hang himself for his hypocritical, patronizing and completely unhinged progressive bullshit. In fact, their tirades showed why our Founding Fathers moved away from such institutions not being fully decided by the mob. Now back to Warren.
CNN is the mecca of town halls. They have town halls for every Democrat who has decided to run in 2020, perhaps a mea culpa for the nonstop coverage of Trump’s 2016 rallies, which amounted to nearly $2 billion in free media for the GOP. They thought overexposure would kill Trump. That made him president. So last night it was Tomahawk Liz’s turn to say this about the Electoral College (via Hill):
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren calls for abolishing the Electoral College and switching to a nationwide popular vote: ‘Every vote matters’ #WarrenTownHall https://t.co/pPFMVywETf pic.twitter.com/yy0J0HgAjc
— CNN (@CNN) March 19, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday called for abolishing the Electoral College and switching to a nationwide popular vote in presidential elections.
Warren, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said during a CNN town hall in Mississippi that she believes “every vote matters.”
“And we can do that with a national vote, which means getting rid of the Electoral College,” she added.
Warren added that she wants to spread this message in Mississippi because during the general election, “candidates don’t come to places like Mississippi” and other non-swing states.
“They also don’t come to places like California and Massachusetts because we’re not battleground states,” she noted. “We need to make sure every vote counts.”
Right now there is a push for a nationwide popular vote interstate compact. More than a dozen states are involved. Colorado is the latest to join the chorus of states declaring they will assign their electors based on the winner of the national popular vote. It’s still just a matter of political debate because there aren’t enough states that have signed on to reach 270. But when that happens, the election could change. At the moment I am neither for nor against. I am fully in favor of starting a debate on this topic, although I am definitely in favor of maintaining the current system. Republicans were on the case because Florida was supposedly teetering on becoming a blue state. The state collapsed for Republicans in 2016 and 2018, with the latter year being a year of rage against Trump for the left. I think Trump will win again in 2020, and Ohio is reported to be almost out of the question. Still, I look at the map. This is a blow to both sides. And while I more or less favor the current system, because in the past the winner of the presidential race won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote five times and the nation didn’t explode, I think the GOP can win in a popular vote-only system, too. There are millions of GOP voters in blue states who don’t vote. Moderate suburbs will flee the Democrats’ hard-left agenda. I am not afraid of such a debate. In such a system, both sides can run campaigns tailored to their base, not swing states. No moderation of the national message. So the GOP can stand on national security, lower taxes, smaller government, free markets, and personal freedom, while the left can stand on the Green New Deal, political correctness, higher taxes, job-killing regulations, killing babies, and favoring illegal immigrants. over American citizens and gun confiscation.
Once again, maintaining the Electoral College is where I almost fail, but in the future, assuming we actually change, I don’t think the GOP should panic right away.
