I think this actually enhances the power of rural America and small-town America.
- Pocahontas
I sure wish someone had followed up by asking her to clarify if she'd just claimed that the change would be more detrimental to the urban states. LOL. She's an idiot. Or she thinks that rural Americans are. Or both.
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Right now, for instance, Roundup is in the news. I have no doubt that urban states would be fine with a liberal President who sought to ban it. It wouldn't affect them, after all. States like Iowa, however, would be devastated and would, no doubt, vote to elect the politician's opponent. Right now, candidates will probably, therefore, avoid the topic and make no changes regarding the use of Roundup. (If jury verdicts continue as they have, simple economics will take Roundup off the market without any legislation being employed. This was only an example.)
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In the absence of an Electoral College, losing votes in a few rural states won't matter at all to Presidential candidates. The candidates who pushed to do the most for the cities, often at the expense of rural states' inhabitants, would always be the ones elected.
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Or we could just look to California which can be thought of as a microcosm of the entire nation. It has nothing resembling a state Electoral College. Most of California by area is CONSERVATIVE. But people in the urban areas run roughshod over the rest of their state, getting them to fund their liberal projects, forcing them to send them their water, preventing them from having backyard barbecues, taxing them for the amount of water that falls on their property, etc. They do this because they have the numbers, and no statewide politician is going to go to bat for a rural minority that won't matter when it comes to keeping his seat.
March 29, 2019
Warren Pressed in Iowa on Call to Abolish Electoral College: ‘Doesn’t Rural America Get the Shaft?’
by David Rutz
FreeBeacon.com
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) was pressed by Iowa reporters Friday over her call to abolish the Electoral College, with one remarking it would give rural America "the shaft."
Des Moines Register reporter Brianne Pfannenstiel asked Warren whether her proposal would hurt small states like Iowa, which is frequently a battleground state. The winner of Iowa has won six out of the past seven presidential elections, the exception being Al Gore in 2000.
"No, this is not about states," Warren said. "This is about voters. It makes every voter important, including voters in Iowa, including voters in Mississippi, including voters in Massachusetts and California."
Iowa Press host David Yepsen also pressed Warren, saying rural America could "get the shaft" if she had her way.
"Wouldn't rural America just be overlooked? The Founders set this up so that big colonies, like Massachusetts, weren't running over the little ones," Yepsen said. "Doesn't rural America get the shaft? No one will ever see a presidential candidate if we get rid of the Electoral College."
Warren said she didn't see it that way.
"Look how much of America is rural, only right now it's all got state boundaries," she said. "And you look at every state, and in every single state, you've got a minority population. … You have to get out and actually meet family farmers. You've got to meet people who live in small-town America and rural America.
"They no longer get subsumed as the minority within their state because all that matters is where your 10 electoral votes are going or your 20 electoral votes are going. I think this actually enhances the power of rural America and small-town America," she added.
Warren joined Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote in 2016 but lost the Electoral College, in calling for its abolition during a CNN town hall in Mississippi on March 18.
"My view is that every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College," Warren said.
Other Democratic presidential candidates, including former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D., Texas), have also called for it to be replaced. Its only prominent defender on the Democratic side: entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
President Donald Trump called the system a "disaster for a democracy" shortly after President Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012, but he's changed his tune, recently tweeting the "brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win."
Democrats and the media touted Hillary Clinton's impenetrable "blue wall" before Trump shocked the political world by winning Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016, three states no Republican had won in decades.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-pressed-in-iowa-on-call-to-abolish-electoral-college-doesnt-rural-america-get-the-shaft/
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