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The Electoral College is Supposed to Protect America from a Demogogue Such as Obama

 
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The Electoral College is Supposed to Protect America from a Demogogue Such as Obama
by Charles W. Fairbanks

As the dynamic race between the McCain-Palin ticket and the Obama-Biden ticket hurtles toward Election Day, many respected private analysts have predicted that there is a very strong possibility that McCain-Palin will win an Electoral College victory despite the fact that Obama-Biden will win the popular vote nationwide. The Founders’ vision was of a body of electors that would protect the Republic from masters of the political arts who would not best serve the nation. If the Electoral College defeats the popular vote, then in this case, it is doing its job.

In six weeks, America will elect a new president. No, this is not an outdated blog entry. According to the process established in Article II and codified in Title 3 of the United States code takes place in two phases. First, on November 4, there will be presidential elections each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Each of those fifty-one separate elections, the popular vote will decide a slate of electors, who then meet on December 15 in accordance with the law to select the president and vice president.

The Electoral College is a cornerstone of our unique federalist sytem. In The Federalist No. 68: The Mode of Electing the President, Alexander Hamilton (pictured above) explained that the Electoral College was designed to protect the nation from a demogogue. Hamilton was concerned with candidates with “ . . . talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity . . .” who might be able to persuade voters in some states to elect them, but the system should not allow those same arts and talents to elevate a candidate to Commander-in-Chief.

A demogogue is standing on the doorstep of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Senator Obama has not won a debate over policy. Senator Obama has not won a debate over the relative credentials of the two candidates. Those debates have been obscured by several elements, the chief of which are: (1) the power of not a mountain, but an entire mountain range of campaign money; (2) the power of a corrupt news media that is in the tank for the Obama campaign; and (3) the powerful rhetorical gifts that the Almighty has bestowed on Senator Obama. With those advantages, Senator Obama has transformed his image from that of the most liberal, most anti-military, most anti-family and most anti-growth Senator in America into a sort of friendly Rockefeller Republican.

But no, Senator Obama is no centrist. And for sure, this campaign has been no Lincoln-Douglas debate. Senator Obama has made a naked appeal to emotion, to race, and to fear of the Republican Bogeyman, President George W. Bush. It is a disingenuous appeal, devoid of factual basis and supported by a widespread confederacy of voter registration crooks (ACORN).

Despite the total emptiness of the Obama rhetoric, Senator Obama appears to have a popular vote lead. He will no doubt increase the Kerry/Gore margins of victory in big states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan and California, states that have not been the subject of contest by both sides. While he may increase Democratic vote totals in those states, he will not gain any more electoral votes. Obama can increase margins in those states without winning Ohio, Florida or Missouri, and perhaps without winning Pennsylvania.

The result would then be that Obama would win the constitutionally-irrelevant national popular vote while losing the consitutionally-important electoral vote. Millions of emotional Obama supporters would cry foul. Their cries would make the nation long for the far more placid days of whining and lawyers in the wake of AL Gore’s defeat in 2000. Many experts anticipate rioting and unrest in the wake of such a result, with the attendant contrived constitutional crisis.

But would it be a tragedy? No. Would it be wrong? No. Modern scholars argue that the Electoral College is designed to protect us from a tyrrany of the majority, and that it is a key component of our federalist system that will help protect us from total domination of our lives by the ever-expanding federal government. If the election resutls in a split result, then so be it: The Electoral College will have served its purpose by protecting the nation from the massive expansion of federal power that will surely happen if there is no president McCain to veto the expansion of federal power that Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reed have in store for us.

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The electoral college is there to prevent any influence from minority parties.
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Modern scholars argue that the Electoral College is designed to protect us from a tyrrany of the majority, and that it is a key component of our federalist system that will help protect us from total domination of our lives by the ever-expanding federal government.
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The electoral college is there to prevent any influence from minority parties.
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The founding fathers were concerned about minority parties?
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oh you didn't hear? bush got rid of that bullshit rule a couple years ago. there's a lot missing now you don't know about.
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The majority of voters WANT OBAMA TO WIN. He is a leader, we believe in him.

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The majority of voters WANT OBAMA TO WIN. He is a leader, we believe in him.

hf
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