Tag: electoral college

popular vote decide who is President? You say?

turkey-dinerHow did your Thanksgiving Diner conversations go? One  friend of many  years said,   Hilary should be President as she won the “popular vote”. Response:  Pass the potatoes ….

When will someone figure out how many illegal votes were cast?     The Wall Street Journal weighs in saying lots of illegal votes were case.

America is a republic of states.  America is not first and foremost a “democracy”.  States created America.  And the states decide via the electoral college who will be President.

And for those who disagree:  Change the US Constitution.  And until it is changed — obey the law.  Make sense?

Now for the current  re-counts:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/12/hillarys-recount-nearly-dead-in-michigan.php

http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/hillary-has-secret-reason-for-backing-vote-recount/

So what did you hear around your Thanksgiving diner table?  Anything interesting?  Share!

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Hilary can’t count! Because votes ‘cast’ are not votes ‘counted’

    vote-absenteeHilary and the popular vote.

First of all, she’s probably not going to win the actual number of votes cast.

 Hilary  may win the number of votes counted, but not the votes cast.

Did you vote absentee?   Opps!  

States don’t count their absentee ballots unless the number of outstanding absentee ballots is larger than the state margin of difference.

If there is a margin of 1,000 votes counted and there are 1,300 absentee ballots outstanding, then the state tabulates those.  If the number of outstanding absentee ballots wouldn’t influence the election results, then the absentee ballots aren’t counted.

Who votes by absentee ballot?  Students overseas, the military, business people on trips, etc.  The historical breakout for absentee ballots is about 67-33% Republican.

 Example how absentee ballots work:  In 2000, when Al Gore “won” the popular vote nationally by 500,000 votes and the liberal media screamed bloody murder, there were 2 million absentee ballots in California alone.  A 67-33 breakout of those yields a 1.33- to 0.667-million Republican vote advantage, so Bush would have gotten a 667,000-vote margin from California’s uncounted absentee ballots alone!  So much for Gore’s 500,000 popular vote “victory.”  (That was the headline on the N.Y. Times, and it was the lead story on NBC Nightly News, right?  No?  

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/hillary_wins_the_popular_vote__not_.html

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Firenze Sage:  A handy tidbit for those who would scrap the electoral college so that NY and California alone can decide elections.

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