Haven’t we learned anything from the 2000 presidential election, when Al Gore with the most popular votes lost to George W. Bush, who “won” electoral votes due to a messy Florida count, and SCOTUS intervention.
We have suffered through the results of that mistake, with predictable and preventable 9/11, unnecessary wars, unsettled Mid-East issues, and tanking of the economy, just to mention some of the misery that could have been avoided if the person with the most votes had won.
And now we’re doing it again! Unless something sensible is done with the electoral votes on December 19, the candidate with the most popular votes will lose to a far less qualified, and very risky, candidate, who is already way down the path to making “America Hate Again”!
With Internet, TV, radio and newspapers covering everything across the land, the electoral vote system has long since outlived its usefulness and recently only resulted in putting the lesser qualified candidate in the most important and powerful office of the world.
Four years under Trump will only set us back further, while there is still work to be done to fix ‘W”s mistakes.
Haven’t we learned anything?
SCOTUS did not help out Bush during the Florida count. The federal courts attempted to intervene in attempt to help Gore and they were slapped down. They did not have the authority to get involved, but once again the corrupt activist judges on the left attempted to abuse their positions.
Did you really just relate 9/11 to the election of Bush? Where did you get your history? CNN?
Speaking of history you should really read the federalist papers and educate yourself on the Constitution. Perhaps you will stop crying about the EC once you understand our history and why we have it and why it is needed.
How in the world can you get it so totally wrong? It was indeed the Supreme Court that intervened in 2000 and stopped the Florida re-counting that might have helped Al Gore, not the other way around! You are right claiming that the court shouldn’t have intervened, except they did so to help Bush, not Gore, who got the most primary votes, while the outdated Electoral system gave it to Bush, unfortunately. It looks like Republicans cannot win without the Electoral College, or without voter suppression. You may also recall that the conservative judge Sandra O’Connor was the fifth and deciding vote against Gore, but later regretted what she had done when she realized what a mess Bush had created, – a mess so severe that it took someone with President Obama’s capacity and insight to get us back on track again, – an accomplishment especially admirable when we consider how the Republican-infested Congress obstructed him every which way they could imagine.