Tag: Electoral College

Under The National Popular Vote Compact, Trump Crushed Harris 520 to 18

James Fetzerblog

Internet Privacy Advocate [Editor’s note: Democrats who complain that the President should be elected on the basis of the popular rather than electoral college vote may want to think again. Here’s what would have happened had their own plan to circumvent The Electoral College been in place for the 2024 election.] The National Popular Vote Compact is an agreement among a group of seventeen (17) US states and the District of Columbia in which they have agreed by law to give away all of their electoral votes to whichever candidate…

Pat Buchanan: Stacking the Electorate: How Middle America Is to be Dispossessed

James Fetzerblog

Pat Buchanan   In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College.   Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it is today for California Republicans, and to convert the GOP into America’s permanent minority party.   In the Golden State, Democrats control the governors’ chair, every…

Jonah Goldberg, Complaints that the Senate is Undemocratic ring Hollow

James Fetzerblog, Kavanaugh

Jonah Goldberg In the wake of the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a lot of people are suddenly very mad that the Senate is “undemocratic.” I’m unmoved.The reason for my indifference is twofold. First, this alleged outrage fits a time-honored tradition of progressives declaring illegitimate everything that is inconvenient to their agenda. Second, this is mostly about California being a big baby. Let’s start with the first point. Like other progressives, Woodrow Wilson started out arguing that Congress should be the center of power but switched lanes once…