“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

― Benjamin Franklin

"If you give the leftists what they want, they will bleed this country dry in a generation. It is already on heavy meds and infested by parasites."

― williegoat

quote Originally posted by ls3mach: We were never meant to be a democracy.

I agree but the Supreme Court decided in 1962 that State apportionment of both house and senate must both be based on population. In effect that did away with the common practice of State legislatures being modeled after the federal government where on branch was elected by area and the other by population. That is known as the "one man one vote" ruling which could be used as logic for the popular vote being used to elect the President. Then as pointed out previously, elections would only need to be contested in the most populous States.

That is only one Supreme Court decision away from being a reality except for the Constitution.

quote Originally posted by Tony Kania: Tic toc... Connecticut To Give Its Electoral College Votes To National Popular Vote Victor HuffPost Dominique Mosbergen,HuffPost Mon, May 7 4:27 AM PDT Connecticut's legislature has passed a bill that would give the state's Connecticut’s legislature has passed a bill that would give the state’s Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote nationally. The state Senate voted 21-14 on Saturday to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which includes 10 states and the District of Columbia. The state House passed the measure last week, 77 to 73. The compact requires its members to cast their Electoral College ballots for the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote. The agreement goes into effect once states representing at least 270 electoral votes — the number needed for a candidate to win the presidency — signs the compact. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) has promised to sign the legislation committing his state to the interstate agreement. Once he does so, the compact will have 172 electoral votes. California, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia have already signed the accord. Malloy has described the current Electoral College voting system as “fundamentally unfair.” “With the exception of the presidency, every elected office in the country, from city council, to United States senator, to governor, is awarded the candidate who receives the most votes,” the governor said, according to the Connecticut Mirror. “The vote of every American citizen should count equally, yet under the current system, voters from sparsely populated states are awarded significantly more power than those from states like Connecticut.” In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump lost the popular vote by almost 3 million ballots, but won the electoral vote 304 to 227, thus clinching the presidency. According to The Associated Press, Connecticut ― which cast its seven electoral votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 ― will be the first state to join the National Popular Vote agreement since Trump’s victory. State Rep. Matthew Lesser (D) said it’s taken a decade of lobbying to convince Connecticut lawmakers to join the compact. Trump’s victory, Lesser told AP, appears to have given the issue “some renewed momentum.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. Click to show

I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Our Constitution was specifically designed around the electoral process, and to change anything like that would actually require a 3/4ths majority vote by the states to make it an amendment.

Even by their own rules, they'd need to get another 100 electoral votes before they'd even be able to implement that, and they'd lose in a Supreme Court challenge.


It's just the typical Democrats wanting to change the rules because it's not working for them.