Circumventing the Constitution

Of all the ways Democrats attempt to get around the Constitution every day, this is probably the most transparently craven...

BISMARCK, N.D. -- A movement to essentially junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the nationwide popular vote is making some headway in states large and small -- including, somewhat improbably, North Dakota.

The National Popular Vote movement is aimed at preventing a repeat of 2000, when Democrat Al Gore lost despite getting more votes than George W. Bush.

Backers are asking states to change their laws to award their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote nationally.

The founding fathers estabilished the electoral college for two reasons, to give small states more of a say in the presidency, and to maintain electoral balance between the individual states and the voters. Electing the U.S. president by simple popular vote would allow somebody like Hillary to become president by courting the wacky California/West Coast libs and the black vote in New York and only a few other states, while ignoring the vast majority of the rest of the country. The electoral college forces national candidates to have broad appeal across the country.

Of course Democrats want to have mob rule elect presidents. That way their candidates can ignore red-state America altogether. To typical subversive liberals, the Constitution is something to be gotten around in order to foist their dreadful world view on America.