Wednesday, November 23, 2016

AN ELECTORAL WIN by colin b m wood





AN ELECTORAL WIN
Written by: Colin B M Wood 11/23/2016 – 11:08AM ET



Election night left me in a tizzy, and a downtrodden mood the past couple weeks. I, like 2 million more Hillary backers than Trump nationwide, are still trying to wake up from a long night at the bar, with the feeling of trace alcohol still flowing through our veins, leaving us in a trance like state ever since.

What happened? Our lady had it locked up. We would finally be the Masters of the Universe, with a woman leading the way, who carried a new global view of the world. She would lead us into a new realm of possibilities, and a new relationship with nations worldwide. Possibly less racism, healing, less judgment, more love, more understanding, more compromise.

BUT........as we all know........that was Trumped out by midnight November 7th, 2016 by a movement across most of America, which we can not ignore, or kick to the side.

I realize, and hope that many Trump supporters will read this. I am going to try and keep an open mind as I write, and research for this article the origins of the Electoral College voting system, the reason why it is still active, and where do we go from here as a nation, and why. This will be an Independent and fair assessment of our voting system in America, regardless of my party affiliations over the past 20 years, or my opinion on this election. It is clear from my previous writings, and I can tell anyone new, that I feared a Trump presidency for our country and the world, and still do. I am trying to keep an open mind, in hopes that much of Trump's rhetoric during the election was just that, and that he actually has a brain, and will see the reality and seriousness of his position, and consider all American's equal in his choices. With that, I continue this article now with a neutral approach, and it will not be about Hillary or Trump, or why I think one should have outdone the other.

As we all know, Trump won the Electoral College, and the election for President of the United States. We, at this point, also know now, that Clinton leads Trump in the popular vote by 2 million votes.

What? Why is Trump our President then? You may ask yourself. I have a couple thousand friends on Facebook and maybe 2500 between my two Twitter accounts. I, by no means, am an overly popular person on social media at this point in my social media (career?). However, I have seen numerous objections to America's election process from all Democrats, no Republicans, and numerous European and British friends across the pond, the past two weeks.

Before getting into the original history of the Electoral College, I ask all of you this.....”Where have all your complaints about our elections process in America been over the past 241 years?” Yes, there has been conversation before in America about this process, just as recently as the 2000 election between George W. Bush, and Al Gore. That year, was the fourth occurrence of the President-elect having less popular votes than the loser, and the first since, the 1880's.

It is always fun and sometimes hysterical to watch the pundits on news channels argue about this topic. They always remain shallow in their interpretations, and short-changed on their historical knowledge and understanding of the process. I can only hope, that as you take this journey through time with me in this article, that you come out with a complete and full understanding of why or why not we should continue the Electoral College, it's origins and it's purpose. Let me preface the rest of this article with the fact that you can probably just go to Wikipedia and get your own quick fact sheet on the Electoral College, but I hope to make this explanation easier to understand.

So, let's get started. It's 1787 and we are looking down on the Constitutional Convention. They are discussing the current use of the Virginia Plan to elect the President of the United States. They are debating over why a popular vote alone wouldn't be fair. The argument circles around the concept that the whole of the south are looked at as a majority on it's own, and would dominate a nationwide popular vote, with the same ethical concerns among all of them. In other words, the argument being that because the south was entirely slave oriented, they would always be in control of the Presidential vote as one entity every election. The state's individually would not matter, because everyone down south wanted slavery, and based upon a population representative, they would always outnumber the rest of the country in their election of a President who sees things their way only. The rest of the country would have no say. Therefore, they finally agreed upon a “college of electors” as it was originally called, until the early 1900's, when we would change it to the “Electoral College”.


With numerous Federalist Papers, men such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton laid out the concepts of the Electoral College. They felt that by having electors that represent each senator and House Representative, whom were not associated with Congress, would allow for a more fair election process. Eventually, years later, it was agreed that the popular vote in each district would choose the electors vote for President, then eventually the Vice President, as he was later added to the same ticket, so to avoid separate party representation on one ticket, as was the interference with the Hamilton election. The number of electors in each state would dependent on the number of senators and Representatives, which is a reflection of the population in each district. So, basically, you could have 5 million people in one district vote for let's say Hillary, but have 1.5 million vote for Trump in another district, and 2 million more vote for him in another district. Trump is going to win the state, although he didn't win the state popular vote, because he received more electoral votes, thus representing the whole state. If Hillary were to win the state based on one district having more people in it, due to a large city, then it would just be those large cities voting for our President each election, representing only their big city struggles, and not what is happening across the rest of the state. This is the largest reason for the Electoral College.

So, if we only elected our President on a popular vote, all the big cities that have more people in them, would be electing our President all the time, only reflecting their big city areas, and as we all know, all big cities are blue! They will always be blue, and therefore, we would never have a Republican President again in our history, and the rest of the Country, which is about 90% red this year, would go unrepresented. Our forefathers were so amazingly educated, beyond what many of us can even apprehend nowadays, and were so wise, that they were able to foresee this being a problem one day in our Nation's history. But, it wasn't only on intuition, but upon their electoral experiences throughout the early 1800's electing processes, which allowed them to refine and retool the Electoral College concept.

Take a look at this past elections map by country or district, and you will find what I am talking about. Almost the entire country is red, except for the big city areas in each state. There is about 90% red, and 10% blue. I know some of you liberal, leftist leaning readers are saying yeah well, we should win every time because there is more of us! Well, I ask you these questions.

Would it be fair to the other 90% of the country that they never matter in an election?

Would it be America, if only a democrat were forever in charge, with no checks and balances in the electoral process?

More importantly, for those of you with a connection to slavery.....Would you have wanted the south to dominate every election of a President throughout history?

Probably not!!!

If, history had unfolded without the representative Electoral College, we might be living in a very different country right now, possibly with enslavement still materializing before our very eyes!

So, regardless of my party affiliation, I am no racist, nor do I appreciate any of our Slavery history, except for the fact that an amazing culture was brought to America, before we were even a Country, and from the beginning has given a more powerful, beautiful, and at times, awe-inspiring addition to our melding pot, called America!

I am upset that Clinton didn't win, although, I am not crazy, I realize she wasn't a great choice to lead our country either, but I look at a person's complete persona, and Trump scared me and still does. Not in a childish way, but of an OMG, he might destroy the world way. However, in the long run, based on history, and for our future's hopes, I can say that I am thrilled that we have the Electoral College.

If you want your woman or man to win, the Electoral process forces you to get out of your own comfort zones, your own districts, and get out into those areas, you feel need to be influenced, and bring your message to everyone! If your democrat, go into those red areas, and spread your love. If you are Republican, go into the big cities, and explain your views. This is how changes can still be made in America, and it definitely starts with the people, and with a fair process that gives all of America a chance to decide who will lead them.

I mean, do we really want NYC and Los Angeles deciding who our President will be every 4 years?

Sorry New York and L. A., I miss you, but I don't miss living in you!

VIVE LA AMERICA!!!

@colinbmwood
@woodnewsagency1








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