DON’T BLAME THE SYSTEM!

BY: DAN CLEMENTS

There has been a lot in the news lately about the Democrat presidential primaries. With the nomination going the convention with no clear winner, it looks like it will be a hot time in the old convention. Let’s not forget about Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos, which encouraged Republican voters to switch parties to vote for Hillary Clinton, so as to prolong the Democrat primaries until convention time. A lot of liberal pundits are crying fowl!

But they see nothing wrong with the Lamestream media picking favorites in the Republican primaries and influencing voters. Grandma always said what’s good for the goose is good for the gander!

Liberal pundits or using this primary season to try to promote the National popular Vote. This is an attempt to do away with the Electoral College.

Wikipedia’s definition of the Electoral college is:

The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ^[1] Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Constitution gives each state legislature the plenary power to choose the electors who shall represent its state in the Electoral College. Through this constitutional authority, each state legislature also has the power to determine how exactly the electors are to be chosen (including the legislature choosing the electors). Presently, every state legislature chooses to allow its electors to be popularly chosen (by a state-wide ballot for slates of electors, who have informally pledged themselves to support a particular Presidential candidate and a particular Vice Presidential candidate) on the day set forth by federal law for that purpose (i.e. Election Day). Presidential electors meet in their respective state capitol buildings—or in the case of Washington, D.C., in the District of Columbia—on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December (per 3 U.S.C. § 7). The Electors never meet as a national body. At the 51 separate meetings, held on the same day, the electors cast the electoral votes. As such, the collective concept of the 51 groups is the technical definition of the college. The electoral college system, like the national convention, is an indirect element in the process of electing the president. The Constitution does not require the electors to vote as pledged, but 26 states and the District of Columbia have laws that require their electors to vote as pledged.^[2][3

Liberals have no problem using this system to determine a nominee, except when they think the system has been corrupted, (I.E. Operation Chaos). "We're just coming along and saying, 'Why not add up the votes of all 50 states and award the electoral votes to the 50-state winner?'" said Koza, chairman of National Popular Vote Inc. "I think that the candidate who gets the most votes should win the office."

The proposal is aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2000 election, when Al Gore got the most votes nationwide but George W. Bush put together enough victories in key states to win a majority in the Electoral College and capture the White House.

This kind of end run is necessary because the only way to get rid of the Electoral College entirely is via a constitutional amendment, which would be nearly impossible to pass. Enough small states benefit from the current system to block an amendment. The beauty of this approach is that each state is constitutionally allowed to allot its electoral votes as it sees fit.

These last few paragraphs were taken straight from the National Popular vote website. The liberals that support this are only showing there contempt for the U.S. Constitution. In other words, if you can’t do things the right way (I.E. the amendment process) then let’s do an end run around the U.S. Constitution.

The beauty that is the Electoral College is it’s protection of the individual state that doesn’t have as many people living in it from the over reaching more populated states. If we ever got rid of the Electoral College, less populated states would never see a presidential nominee ever again.

So don’t blame the system if you can’t win under the system. Primaries and general elections are for the candidates and the support system they have in place to win or loose. If it becomes a close race and there are recounts, don’t blame the system!

The U.S. Constitution was implemented to protect not only the individual from an overreaching government, but also to give a voice to those states who may be in the minority, populationaly speaking!

Dan Clements is a member of the Constitution Party and the host of BACK TO BASIC a Christian/political internet talk show. You can listen to Dan live from 10am-1pm EST.

M-F at www.constitutionalwarrior.com