Thoughts on the Electoral College

[JayhawkSD]

27. The election is the product of the process.

Again, this feverish demand that the Electoral College is a disaster that needs to be changed is the result of losing an election, and it flies in the face of logic. If the method was that the election was determined by the popular vote, the candidates would have campaigned differently and voters would have voted differently.

In Clinton's favor? Maybe, maybe not, but it is impossible that it can be known she would have won.

California, where Hillary got 3 million of her 2 million votes edge, has 11 million votes, and neither candidate campaigned here. In a popular vote election, do you think that they would not have been contesting for every vote in California as part of the national total? Do you think that would not have altered the 3 million vote margin here? Sure, diehard Clinton fans are going to think it would not, but that cannot, in fact, be known and common sense says it almost certainly would.

Do you not think that the electoral college caused fewer Republican voters in California to vote at all, knowing that their vote would be overwhelmed?

The votes came out the way they did in no small part because the electoral college is the way it is. It caused some voters to stay home, and campaigners to adjust their strategy. To suggest that the vote total would have been the same in an election known in advance to be determined by the national popular vote total is nonsensical.

Not to mention that, we determine matters of national governance by a consensus of states.