“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.” StatesGovernmentGivenLevelsDemocracyRightsCollegeUnderstoodFunctionElectionBillsProtectionSeparationIncomeLocalsLimitationEvolveFoundersSenatorsRoutesTaxationIncome TaxLegislatorsBill Of RightsPlunderSeparation Of PowersElectoral CollegeCentral Government Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.” IfsGivingYearsPastPoliticalCoursesNationsStepsCollegeRepublicanSixTownsElectionTreatedPresidentialFortyPropositionsResortsSkisPresidential ElectionGaugesPunditsTruismShotguns Book:Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals Source: Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
“US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.” NeedsCollegeVoteElectionElectoral College Author:Roseanne Barr
“There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.” IfsWayNeedsCountryAbleJobsUnitedStreetsCreationCollegeWallCitizensMajorsElectionCrisisWingsClimateClimate ChangeListsOur CountryCandidatesAddressesMinimumRight WingBillionaireMinimum WageCollege EducationJob CreationCitizens UnitedAffordability Author:Bernie Sanders
“Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.” CollegeRepublicanDegreesElectionPresidentialCandidatesPresidential ElectionCollege DegreePolling Author:Mara Liasson
“Democrats came into the race with a structural advantage in the Electoral College. Their big blue wall - the states that Democrats have won in the past six presidential elections - gave [Hillary] Clinton a strong base to build on.” StatesBigsPastStrongRaceCollegeWallSixAdvantageElectionBlueClintonDemocratPresidentialPresidential ElectionElectoral College Author:Mara Liasson
“The primary purpose of the Electoral College is to maintain the power of the states and to support the idea that the election is decided by the states. It's not decided by the general population, and it never was.” IdeasStatesPurposeSupportCollegeDecidedElectionPopulationPrimariesElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.” IfsStatesCollegeKeysElectionDestroyingSovereigntyElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.” ShouldMeanDoeLawNationsCan DoConsciousnessIssuesLandWorstCollegeTrumpVoteElectionMajorityAssumingClintonPlanningAbortionVotingPrivacyWorst ThingsMandatesPreventionContraceptionFamily PlanningHealth IssuesElectoral CollegePopular Vote Author:Willie Parker
“If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.” IfsWantHas BeensStillsTodayCollegeElectionDemocratRageSignificantPortionsPresidencyGet OverAnimatedAftermathElectoral CollegeRage And Anger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Even without voting, illegal aliens do affect who gets elected president, and that's since the Electoral College elects the president, and the states are given 80% of their electoral votes based on their population, whether they include illegals or not, is the assessment that that is how they affect elections.” StatesGivenPresidentCollegeVoteElectionPopulationAliensVotingIllegalAssessmentIllegal AliensElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh