In her lifetime, California Sen. Barbara Boxer has seen her party lose two presidential elections after winning the popular vote — Al Gore’s race against George W. Bush in 2000, and now Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald J. Trump.
A week after her party’s White House loss, the retiring U.S. senator has introduced a bill that would amend the Constitution in order to abolish the Electoral College. According to a New York Times estimate, Clinton will be ahead in the popular vote by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points. But Trump got 306 in the Electoral College vote while Clinton got 232 — 270 is needed to win.
With Republicans now in control of both congressional houses, it’s unlikely Boxer’s bill will become much more than a political statement. If the long-shot measure makes it through Congress, it would not take effect until three-fourths of the 50 states ratify it within seven years after congressional approval.
In 2012, president-elect Trump voiced his opposition to the Electoral College in a series of tweets — after it seemed Republican Mitt Romney might lose the electoral vote but win the popular vote. Trump called the electoral system a “disaster for democracy.”
He doubled-down on that position during Sunday’s 60 Minutes interview, in which he said, “I’m not going to change my mind just because I won.” But as of Tuesday, it’s unclear whether he would support Boxer’s bill.
The same morning Boxer introduced the measure, Trump again took to Twitter to call the electoral system “genius.”
First of all This is a Constitutional Republic ( Individual Rights ) not a Democracy ( Mob Rule ) She did not win the majority in all states as represented by the Electoral College. (Equal Representation per capita ) There is no need for a new Amendment,especially since we have an important Amendment that is not being enforced because it has been obfuscated by Traitors to “We The People” ! http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/new-hampshire-lawmakers-allege-secret-hidden-thirteenth-amendment & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhwYwxT3I0 Proof : http://themillenniumreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/770793991_ca5a5e8e46_o.jpg & http://www.amendment-13.org/
“… a bill that would amend the Constitution in order to abolish the Electoral College.”
Seriously?
“What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?”
What difference does it make?
Hillary is VERY popular among [brain]dead people…
She wins the popular vote of the zombies easily.
🙂
Ryan does some work for an old couple that are huge Hitlery fans. Other than them, I haven’t heard of anyone else in this town who supports her (and this is supposed to be a ‘blue’ state)
No shortage of Chumpsters, however.
i’ll bet this bitch would like California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts. to be the liberal Democrat states to choose it all every time with their huge population. Civil war before this happens.
Barbara Boxer, offering yet more proof, as if anymore was needed, that she is a low IQ, shallow moron who never should have been allowed within 1000 miles of the Imperial City.