Civilized said:
packgrad said:
I see Vivek's pulled out the knee pads for Trump again.
Chicken-heading hard for that VP job, like it!
Rich talk from the right when they benefit from the greatest structural advantage of all in the Electoral College.
The Electoral College has its biggest partisan bias in a century. Republicans now enjoy a 50/50 shot of winning the presidency by obtaining only 48% of the popular vote. That's Republicans basically starting out with a 3 million vote lead.
There's no evidence that illegal immigrants commit voter fraud on scale. There's no evidence for that matter voter fraud is scalable in any form.
So spare us all the sanctimony about fake structural advantages for Democrats when Republicans enjoy the only true and extremely significant structural advantage.
Makes it all the more galling, doesn't it, when a Republican candidate loses and cries fraud? Can't even win with a big head start and yet still turn into crybabies when they lose.
#Sieve is another one of the youngsters that thinks we're a democracy. #Sieve, repeat these words "CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC".......maybe you'll get it with 100 repetitions.
The
Twelfth Amendment (
Amendment XII) to the
United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the
president and
vice president. It replaced the procedure in
Article II, Section 1, Clause 3, under which the
Electoral College originally functioned. The amendment was proposed by
Congress on December 9, 1803, and was ratified by the requisite three-fourths of
state legislatures on June 15, 1804. The new rules took effect for the
1804 presidential election and have governed all subsequent presidential elections.
Under the original Constitution, each member of the Electoral College cast two electoral votes, with no distinction between electoral votes for president or for vice president. The presidential candidate receiving the greatest number of votesprovided that number was at least a majority of the electorswas elected president, while the presidential candidate receiving the second-most votes was elected vice president. In cases where no individual won the votes of a majority of the electors, as well as in cases where multiple persons won the votes of a majority but tied for the most votes, the
House of Representatives would hold a
contingent election to select the president. In cases where multiple candidates tied for the second-most votes, the
Senate would hold a contingent election to select the vice president. The first four presidential elections were conducted under these rules.
The original system allowed the
1796 and
1800 presidential elections to elect a president and vice-president who were political opponents, constantly acting at cross-purposes. This spurred legislators to amend the presidential election process to require each member of the Electoral College to cast one electoral vote for president and one electoral vote for vice president. Under the new rules, a contingent election is still held by the House of Representatives if no candidate wins the presidential electoral vote of a majority of the electors, but there is no longer any possibility of multiple candidates winning presidential electoral votes from a majority of electors. The Twelfth Amendment also lowered the number of candidates eligible to be selected by the House in a presidential contingent election from five to three, established that the Senate would hold a contingent election for vice president if no candidate won a majority of the vice presidential electoral vote, and provided that no individual constitutionally ineligible to the office of president would be eligible to serve as vice president.
#Devolution #Expand Your Thinking #Eye of The Storm #TheGreatAwakening
