Politico - Advocates of the long-shot bid to turn the Electoral College against
Donald Trump have been in contact with close allies of Hillary Clinton,
according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions, but the
Clinton camp — and Clinton herself — have declined to weigh in on the
merits of the plan.
Clinton's team and the Democratic National
Committee have steadfastly refused to endorse the efforts spearheaded by
a group of electors in Colorado and Washington state. But, as with the
ongoing recounts initiated by Green Party nominee Jill Stein, the
Clinton team has not categorically rejected them, leaving the collection
of mainly Democratic electors to push forward with no explicit public
support from the failed Democratic nominee or any other prominent party
leaders.
4 comments:
More efforts to discredit the fairness of the electoral college as originally outlined in our founding. The moves to sever apportionment to a set number of citizens has shifted the influence of the college disproportionately in favor of rural areas and away from that of the actual population centers. There is merit in the efforts to restore the original balance and ratios. But one such example thereof: http://www.thirty-thousand.org/
I believe that the Electoral College is an anachronism whose premises, having the best among us select the president, have long been non-existent, thus, it has no justification. Democracy was something to be avoided in the Constitution of 1787, instead relying on an elective oligarchic system centered on state legislatures. As democracy made slow, informal headway in the Electoral College and Senate, the system veered away from oligarchic federalism towards todays more democratic (albeit not democratic) and unitary system.
Nonetheless, the ludicrously reaction to candidate Trump’s refusal to pre-certify the electoral results lambasted by the mainstream media and his Democratic Party opponent and now revealed as sickly hypocritical sully consideration of this issue, at this time.
A pity. We desperately require constitutional reform on too many levels.
Since the Electoral College was designed to correct a mistake by the electorate, it should vote for none of the above this time.
what Guillermo said
Post a Comment