Welcome.
This is a continuation of a similar blog I managed several years ago that mysteriously vanished one day around a year ago.
The current political climate prompted me to begin writing again.
Let me start this post again mentioning that I am an conservative Independent. I am not a Trump fan. And certainly not a Hillary Clinton/left/progressive/big government supporter.
I write to focus on misinformation that continues to be spread daily in the "mainstream" media. My motive is to defend the constitution.
Contrary to popular belief, the United States is NOT a democracy. It's a Republic governed by laws - some relegated to the Federal Government and more to the individual states.
And when people bring "Hitler" into any conversation on either side, you automatically lose the argument.
Before this last election, and even now, I am concerned about the direction of our nation. I am ecstatic that Hillary lost, but I don't yet know exactly what a Trump presidency will bring. I know liberals think they do, but no one knows until January 20th. If Trump is a terrible president, he'll be voted out in four years. That's how our election process works.
My future posts will deal with similar stories and documented facts of our country and the corruption that spills into every crack of our Republic.
The media has gone wild, teeth are gnashing, play-dough is being handed out and the liberal population is demanding that Hillary be given the presidency because she had 2.8 million more popular votes nationwide than Donald Trump did. And because of this, the Electoral College should be scrapped and elections should be based solely on the popular vote.
Seriously?
The Electoral College was set up on purpose so that every state and it's populace has a say in an elections outcome.
Let's take this 2.8 million number for Hillary. She won California by nearly 4 million votes. So, what happens if you take California out of the count? Trump wins every other state (when totaled together, like it's being done with Hillary) in the popular vote by 1.5 million. But you won't hear that from the whiners on the left.
If the elections were based only on the popular vote, the candidates would spend all of their time in the five or six most populated states - most of which are blue. Is that fair? Having California being the only state that determines the outcome of every election? I don't think so.
Candidates have to visit and campaign in all of the states to earn the electorate votes of said states.
Trump focused his efforts on a much wider band of states than Clinton - his strategy being to accumulate as many electoral votes as possible. That's why he won and also why the founders set up the electoral college.
To prevent one massively populated state from controlling the election outcome and keeping one party in power forever.
The electoral college is just as viable today as when it was written.
Until next time.
Lee
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