It’s Not Fair, Change the Rules
- Why We Have the Electoral College
by Robert Harrison
Special to Potomac Tea Party
February 2020
Imagine this . . . your team won the football game by two points, 16 to 14. It was your win and the championship was yours. But the other team claimed that the game and championship should have been theirs. When asked why, they said it was because their team scored two touchdowns while your team only scored one, so the scoring rules needed to be changed.
Further imagine that the losing team spent the next three years arguing the championship should be theirs because the points for the three field goals should not have been counted even though it was allowed by the rules. But that is exactly what the Left has done with the 2016 election results in saying we shouldn’t use the votes of the Electoral College provided in the U. S. Constitution.
So what would the 2016 election look like without the Electoral College? Let’s use Illinois as an example. Cook County, the home of Chicago, has the electoral power to elect the governor of Illinois even when the remainder of the 102 counties votes for the opposition. That is what a national election could look like.
What the Founding Fathers were trying to do when they put the Electoral College into the Constitution was to give electoral power to all areas of the country, not have it concentrated in population centers. Without the provisions of the Electoral College, would the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary be significant? The answer is “No”. In America we care that this republic is structured the way it is and it should stay as it is. Thank you Founding Fathers for the Constitution!
- Why We Have the Electoral College
by Robert Harrison
Special to Potomac Tea Party
February 2020
Imagine this . . . your team won the football game by two points, 16 to 14. It was your win and the championship was yours. But the other team claimed that the game and championship should have been theirs. When asked why, they said it was because their team scored two touchdowns while your team only scored one, so the scoring rules needed to be changed.
Further imagine that the losing team spent the next three years arguing the championship should be theirs because the points for the three field goals should not have been counted even though it was allowed by the rules. But that is exactly what the Left has done with the 2016 election results in saying we shouldn’t use the votes of the Electoral College provided in the U. S. Constitution.
So what would the 2016 election look like without the Electoral College? Let’s use Illinois as an example. Cook County, the home of Chicago, has the electoral power to elect the governor of Illinois even when the remainder of the 102 counties votes for the opposition. That is what a national election could look like.
What the Founding Fathers were trying to do when they put the Electoral College into the Constitution was to give electoral power to all areas of the country, not have it concentrated in population centers. Without the provisions of the Electoral College, would the Iowa caucuses or the New Hampshire primary be significant? The answer is “No”. In America we care that this republic is structured the way it is and it should stay as it is. Thank you Founding Fathers for the Constitution!
Encouraging you to stand up for the truth
© Robert Harrison 2020
© Robert Harrison 2020