Opinion

OPINION: Losing the electoral college

Published

7 years ago

March 27, 2019

There are those among us who would abolish the electoral college. I am not one of those.

At this very moment, however, Democrats are setting about to strike down the electoral college. No, not setting about. They are already at it! And, in a fashion that surprises me not one whit, the Democrats are ignoring (violating?) our Constitution.

Why let a small thing like Article II, and for that matter Article V, get in the way. It’s time for modernizing! Can’t let old, dusty, ideas of ancient forefathers impede progress!

Well, folks, it’s time for us to stop sleeping at the wheel! The Mueller report is yesterday’s snow! But Democrats would rather keep us focused on that! That way we’ll not have time to deter their work. After all, dismantling the Constitution is best done out of the limelight.

If you think I am overstating the case, notice this:

“The National Popular Vote bill has been enacted by 13 jurisdictions possessing 181 electoral votes, including four small jurisdictions (RI, VT, HI, DC), five medium- size states (CO, CT, MD, MA, WA), and four big states (NJ, IL, NY, CA). The bill will take effect when enacted by states with 89 more electoral votes. The bill is on the governor’s desk in Delaware and New Mexico. The bill has previously passed at least one chamber in 8 additional states with 72 more electoral votes. A total of 3,125 state legislators from all 50 states have endorsed it.”

Those are not my words. This is the latest update from the National Popular Vote website. What’s that? You haven’t heard of these folks? Go ahead. Track it down on the internet.

The Democrats are working like beavers building a dam. And we don’t appear (yet) to give a damn. We had better catch up with the beavers!

Here is more of what Democrats are today touting:

The National Popular Vote bill will take effect when enacted into law by states possessing 270 electoral votes (a majority of the 538 electoral votes). It has been enacted into law in 13 jurisdictions possessing 181 electoral votes, including 4 small jurisdictions (DC, HI, RI, VT), 5 medium-sized states (CO, CT, MD, MA, WA), and 4 big states (CA, IL, NJ, NY).
The bill will take effect when enacted by states possessing an additional 89 electoral votes.
The bill passed both legislative chambers in New Mexico (5 electoral votes) and Delaware (3 electoral votes) and is now on the desk of Governor’s Grisham and Carney.
The National Popular Vote bill has now passed a total of 37 state legislative chambers in 23 states. It has also passed one legislative chamber in 8 states possessing 72 electoral votes (AR, AZ, ME, MI, NC, NV, OK, OR). It has been unanimously approved at the committee level in 2 states possessing 27 more electoral votes (GA, MO). The National Popular Vote bill has been introduced in various years in all 50 states.

Please notice, I’m quoting far more than I typically do when I’m writing. In this case, it’s necessary. If America’s conservatives do not quickly get into the game, it’s game over! We lose.

You and I both know that what the National Popular Vote organization is doing is erroneous at best. They seem to have forgotten, or are studiously ignoring, the language of our Constitution.

It helps that The Brigham Young University Law Review has sided not with the Democrats but with the Constitution. The review states that the National Popular Vote organization “attempts to circumvent the federal constitutional framework for federal elections… “and adds that such change “must come not by legislation adopted either by Congress or by an individual State, but rather—as have other important changes in the electoral process—through the amendment procedures set forth in Article V.”

We concerned conservative citizens must remind the Democrats this: the very reason the signators of our Constitution established the electoral college was to prevent the popular vote from overriding the power and role of the States.

Why not by popular vote? Well, what Democrats choose to ignore is what we citizens who recite the Pledge of Allegiance do not ignore: and to the Republic for which it stands.

If our founding fathers had desired to do so, this country could have been a popular democracy. But they did not so desire. That is why we are, in fact, a democratic republic.

And that is what Democrats want to destroy. If they are successful, only citizens on the east and west coasts of our country need vote. The rest of the country might as well stay at home on election day.

And that, my friends, is why we have the electoral college. It is also why Democrats are busy today ridding this country of that college.

It’s time for us to stop them.

Frank Tilton

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