Connecticut passes bill giving electoral votes to presidential candidate who wins popular vote

[88m3]

love to see the fake outrage from the alt right aliases

y'all been missing from a few racial discrimination threads

but we know why don't we

I've been watching them twist themselves into pretzels and set themselves on fire all day over this issue on multiple platforms and websites



"the popular vote is tyranny"

 

[DEAD7]

Tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) refers to an inherent weakness of direct democracy and majority rule in which the majority of an electorate can and does place its own interests above, and at the expense of, those in the minority.

If you don’t grasp the concern then chances are you are part of the majority... and you have no reason to even consider opposition to your rule.

If it was the other way and a system was being put into place that gauranteed conservatives win from here on out, Iiberal concerns would probably be dismissed as well.
It’s just politics I guess.

 

[DEAD7]

Push for popular vote election, push for amnesty, push for lax immigration policy, push to restore voting rights to felons...



I see it now.


Y’all cooking.

 

[Paper Boi]

Push for popular vote election, push for amnesty, push for lax immigration policy, push to restore voting rights to felons...



I see it now.


Y’all cooking.

damn right

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Push for popular vote election,

No.

push for amnesty,

No.

push for lax immigration policy,

No.

push to restore voting rights to felons...

They paid their debt to society. They are citizens once they are free. So by the actual Constitution, yes, restore their rights.

 

[Reece]

On one hand, people in the flyover states would be marginalized without the electoral college. Most of the population live on the coasts. If the popular vote determined the elections, what leverage would the smaller states have to ensure their needs are met. On the other hand, it's not fair to big states like New York, California and Florida that flyover states with no large population in comparison that are less educated, more reliant on government aid and basically contribute nothing to the GDP can band together and put an idiot in office due to that rule.

I'm leaning more towards the latter.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Flyover states only provide food, oil, and gas. Actual sustenance to the country.

 

[AndroidHero]

push to restore voting rights to felons...

Do you have a problem with this?

 

[DEAD7]

Do you have a problem with this?

Not at all.
I even believe some felons should get back their right to bear arms...

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

This seems stupid. As much as people want to bash the electoral college, which has its issues, it was not the reason Clinton lost. Clinton was the reason she lost. Plus, the vast majority of those 3 million votes came from California alone. This solves nothing. It doesn't even address the actual issues in this election. Which were many. But the EC was the least of them all.

Couldn't we also say that the repubs got a vast amount of their votes from Texas? . Why even play that game?


The electoral college is obviously flawed and its it huge reason why we are in a 2 party system.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Just need to get rid of the system altogether and go purely by popular vote.

bytch ass antiquated system.

The system was set up this way because the founders felt the common person was too stupid/uneducated to cast a vote

 

[King Static X]

wait a minute isnt that how it should have always worked???

Yes and No.

Electors are expected to vote for whoever wins the popular vote but it is NOT mandated in most states...just expected.

Connecticut is MANDATING that whoever wins the popular vote gets ALL of the state's electoral college votes.

In 2016, there were a few electors who didn't cast their vote for Hillary & Trump even though they won their respective states.

 

[acri1]

On one hand, people in the flyover states would be marginalized without the electoral college. Most of the population live on the coasts. If the popular vote determined the elections, what leverage would the smaller states have to ensure their needs are met. On the other hand, it's not fair to big states like New York, California and Florida that flyover states with no large population in comparison that are less educated, more reliant on government aid and basically contribute nothing to the GDP can band together and put an idiot in office due to that rule.

I'm leaning more towards the latter.

Small states still get the same number of Senators regardless of population, that's plenty of leverage right there.


I really don't get this idea that your vote should be worth less because you live in a populated area. People seem to buy into this weird right-wing idea that your only a "real American" if you live in some rural area or flyover state.

 

[King Static X]

Small states still get the same number of Senators regardless of population, that's plenty of leverage right there.


I really don't get this idea that your vote should be worth less because you live in a populated area. People seem to buy into this weird right-wing idea that your only a "real American" if you live in some rural area or flyover state.

I hate that shyt so much.

So some White farmer that lives in a corn field in Nebraska is a "real American" but I'm not?

 

[thekingsmen]

So what happens when republicans win the popular vote a few years later...change it again?

You guys arent changing anything.