Warren Plans to End Electoral College by 2024

[corbe]

Warren Plans to End Electoral College by 2024

Elizabeth Matamoros - December 2, 2019 1:30 PM

Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said she plans to be the last person elected president by the Electoral College.

"I want to get rid of it," Warren said during an Iowa campaign event on Sunday. "So here's my goal: my goal is to get elected and then to be the last American president elected by the Electoral College. I want the second term to be that I got elected by direct vote."

"I just think this is how a democracy should work," Warren said. "Call me old-fashioned, but I think the person who gets the most votes should win."

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https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-plans-to-end-electoral-college-by-2024/

[Wingnut]

Call me old fashioned, But Liz, you are a dumb ass.

[corbe]

   Fat Chance, squaw.

[Wingnut]

   Fat Chance, squaw.

In her world, she figures she can just sign an executive order and the EC will be gone!

[xyno]

She may or may not understand the process (my guess is not), but it doesn't matter.  Her rhetoric is what matters to the useful idiots who vote. 

[andy58-in-nh]

"I just think this is how a democracy should work," Warren said. "Call me old-fashioned, but I think the person who gets the most votes should win."

If the United States were a democracy, that's exactly how it would work.

But instead, we are of course a constitutional republic - a fact which our neo-Jacobin Left keeps trying to deny, frequently by public appeals to save or to protect "our democracy".

[Hoodat]

Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said she plans to be the last person elected president by the Electoral College.

Warren has it backwards.  It is because of the electoral college that she will never be elected President.

[mystery-ak]

 Warren: I’ll Be ‘Last American President Elected By The Electoral College’

Progressives like Warren want to abolish the Electoral College because they want to get rid of our constitutional system entirely.

By John Daniel Davidson
December 3, 2019

On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren reiterated her view that the Electoral College should be abolished and U.S. presidents should be elected by popular vote. “My goal is to get elected—but I plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College. I want my second term to be elected by direct vote,” she tweeted.

In the accompanying video clip, she said, “Call me old fashioned, but I think the person who gets the most votes should win.”

Warren has a curious idea of what counts as “old fashioned,” since her position on the Electoral College puts her at odds with the decidedly old fashioned Founding Fathers, who rightly worried about what James Madison called the “tyranny of the majority.”

Democrats are apparently unbothered by this possibility, not least because they believe they’ve secured a permanent majority and, if they could just seize power, they would govern as benign rulers. What’s standing in their way is nothing less than our constitutional system.

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/03/warren-ill-be-last-american-president-elected-by-the-electoral-college/

[cato potatoe]

I'm not sure why the attention is being spent on the EC.  The control of congress is not decided by nationwide popular vote.  Why should the presidency be unique?  Besides, had Albert or Hillary just focused more on the swing states, nobody would care about this issue.