Why the 2016 Election Proves America Needs the Electoral College

From The Daily Signal.com (Nov. 14):

In the last week since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in a stunning electoral blowout, there have been calls from many on the left to abolish America’s unique presidential election system.

It still hasn’t been settled whether Trump or Clinton won the popular vote, but many Democrats are upset about the possibility that their candidate may have won more total votes, yet lost the election.

Progressives are taking aim at the Electoral College and want to replace it with a national popular vote. This would both remove the indirect mediation of the electors’ votes, and more damagingly, eliminate the power of states in choosing a president.

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The ‘Fairness’ of the Electoral College

As designed in the Constitution, America’s presidential election is very much a product of the states—channeling the principle of “federalism” that the Founders cherished.

Smaller states receive a slightly higher number of votes compared to their population than more populous ones, which detractors of the Electoral College claim damages the idea of one man, one vote.

Many say this system is “unfair,” and that the total number of individual votes from all the states is a more accurate gauge for who the president should be. But, would it be fair for America’s chief executive to mostly be the product of a few urban centers in California, New York, and Texas?

The Electoral College system was designed to ensure that presidents would have to receive support from a diverse array of people around the country.

Modern candidates have to accommodate farmers in rural states, factory workers in industrial states, and software engineers in tech-dominated states. The president must consider the needs and opinions of people across the country instead of just the views of a few, highly populated urban centers.

The Electoral College ensures that the interests of “flyover country” in middle America cannot be ignored.  [read more]

What the Left doesn’t think about is one day in the future there might be a time when a republican candidate or a non-Left candidate will win the presidential election and get both the popular vote and the electoral vote. Then again they think everyone will always love them like parental figures. Then you have those like elites like Hillary who would rather just skip the vote altogether and just be annointed.

Even if Donald Trump won the popular vote too, the Left would just way they were duped by a con man. The masses are never duped by Left of course. The Left never con or lie to the public like Hillary did to the mothers who lost their sons over in Benghazi.