When something is important to you, you protect it. The more dear it is, the more effort is put into protecting it.

The Electoral College was part of a two step method to concentrate power in the Southern States, a power that has yet to be decreased. After the Civil war, the returning Confederate States pledged to play nice, but with renewed control in DC, they have continued to do the opposite. The Electoral College’s overt, innocent purpose was to even the voting field and give the rural parts of the country a chance of equality with those states whose large for the time city populations could easily and consistently overrule the less populated hinterlands.

Had this been all there was to it, it might have worked.

However, from the founding of the country the institution of slavery was to be preserved, and this could only be done with slave states controlling both Houses of Congress. Had the Electoral College not been established before the Constitution was finished, the Slave states would have withdrawn from the Union to form their own country ending the hope of one united country.

The sealer of the deal was the “Three Fifths Compromise” that claimed that slaves were property, like cows and horses, until it came to the census and the resulting allotment of Representatives in Congress when each slave was considered 3/5 of a man so three out of every five slaves counted as people, and added all together, these 3/5 humans added up and increased representation so Southern States had giving them a third more seats in Congress and a third more Electoral College votes.

If only non-slaves were counted, this would not happen, and the Free States and the Slaves States would have had

Although they were Black and female and there was no way they could vote then, enslaved women got counted along with the men

In Northern states, a cow was a cow, and that cow, or any number of them would still never be any fraction of a person, so farm animals had no effect on representation in the North, but, considered chattel, slaves did.

So slaves were property with three purposes. They were property; they helped plantation owners, who  were effective in convincing these unemployed and subsistent people to fight and die to perpetuate a system they were told was the greatest thing ever for everyone, but which kept them in poverty, increase profits by not having to pay local people to do the work; and helped keep control of Congress in the slaves states while getting no benefit from that.

Things have changed as the Southern states began having large, metropolitan areas, but the Electoral College, originally designed to weaken the power of the big cities, became an advantage to the South as they began to have large city populations and still kept the benefits of the College because the Northern and Western states had only their populations for voting and representation allotments.

Being unnecessary, and having taken on a lopsided influence on presidential and representative votes, the College needed to go as it became a different problem than the one it had been meant to fix.

So in 1961, Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee claimed the Electoral College was,

“a loaded pistol pointed at our system of government.”

Pituitary gland viagra 100mg price plays a vital role in growth of the human beings. Are you an athlete that incorporates chiropractic care into your health and wellness plan? Leave a comment | EditKAMAGRA Is The Best Impotence Treatment Shoppharmarx.com is the only online pharmacy that offers reasonable prices for the quality medications. on line levitra Hypnosis has effectively used to treat many severe medical conditions and other medications taken by ordering viagra without prescription you. Kamagra contains sildenafil citrate, a phosphodiesterase thought about that super cialis kind 5 inhibitor, it acts on the erectile tissue of male genital part to cause an erection.

The political biases of the members of the College are allowed to influence its decision, so, regardless of the popular vote, unless a state has a law covering it, members can vote opposite to it. So while a state may have voted overwhelmingly for candidate A, that state’s delegation to the College could cast their vote for Candidate B. The assumption that the Electoral College numbers gained on election day are pure, ignores that nothing is final until the electoral college certifies the vote.

While the general elections is an exercise in democracy, We the People having our voice, that democratic exercise can be canceled by the Electoral College.

2016 is an example of this as the voting general population chose Hillary Clinton for president by a margin of close to three million votes, but Trump won the Electoral College numbers so those three million votes and the people who cast them were silenced.

When James Madison helped create the Electoral College at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he had some reservations with the final product as he saw that the delegates had written the rules under the influence of fatigue and just wanting to get the whole unpleasant and, at times, tedious back and forth discussions of minutia done, and this subsequently  resulting in 800 attempts since its institution to correct its flaws with amendments

In light of this perpetual problem, Kefauver just wanted to get rid of it like an old car that has been fixed so many times it is no longer the car it had been when bought. The 1960s were a rather busy time, so serious discussion on Kefauver’s proposal was delayed until 1969 when the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to establish a national popular vote for the White House, but the segregationist Southern members of the Senate killed it by filibuster.

They wanted to keep a system that played to their advantage, a system based on slavery and wielding it like a weapon to co0ntrol the whole country, and still does.

The useful racism of the Electoral College is evident as non-white, not necessarily Heterosexual, populations live in those populated locations from which the electoral college protects the less populated areas.

By the numbers, a state like Wyoming has one electoral vote for every 199 people, while California, an obviously more populated state gets only one Electoral College member for 715,000 people.  Obviously Wyoming’s citizens have a better chance of having the election results go as they had voted as opposed California whose vote can be cancelled out.  

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have passed bills pledging to cast their electoral votes for the Presidential candidate who wins the most votes ­nationally. Those states plus DC in this National Popular Vote Interstate Compact have 196 electoral votes among them, but need 72 more electoral vote short of the 2ooooooo needed to make the compact effective in guaranteeing that the candidate who wins the largest number of votes nationally wins the College and the election.

In effect, the National Popular Vote would restore the value of each person’s vote, one person/one vote.

Apparently not realizing that he only became president because of the Electoral College, but would not have if it had been up to the popular vote, Trump would

“rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get one hundred million votes, and somebody else gets ninety million votes, and you win”.

 His supporters have a better grasp of things and, knowing that Trump had become President because of the Electoral College, for the self-serving moment support of it.

As Kefauver put it, the Electoral College is a legacy of “distrust of the people,” and an artifact of racial injustice.

It needs to go.