Showing posts with label Electoral College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electoral College. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2017

"It's over."



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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Warning Republicans! The left is anything but dead.





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Monday, December 26, 2016

This Is What The Vote Would Look Like If We Abolished the Electoral College.

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Monday, December 19, 2016

FINAL: US ELECTORAL COLLEGE Trump Wins: 304 to Clinton: 227



































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Our Founders in their infinite wisdom created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?

The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet and it should finally put an end to the argument as to why the Electoral College makes sense.

Share this with as many whiners as you can.

There are 3,141 counties in the United States.

Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.

There are 62 counties in New York State.

Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.

Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.

In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)

Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.

These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.

The United States is comprised of 3, 797,000 square miles.

When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.

Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country.
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Saturday, December 3, 2016

By the numbers Clinton v Trump

Putting aside Jill Stein’s quixotic effort to force a recount, the left has been loudest with its demands to dismantle the Electoral College.

After all it’s unfair: Hillary Clinton won the “popular vote” so she should win, right?

Wrong.

Our Founders in their infinite wisdom created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?

The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet and it should finally put an end to the argument as to why the Electoral College makes sense.

Share this with as many whiners as you can.

There are 3,141 counties in the United States.

Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.

There are 62 counties in New York State.

Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.

Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.

In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond)

Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.

These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.

The United States is comprised of 3, 797,000 square miles.

When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.

Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country.
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Jill Stein is nothing more than a Clinton scam artist. Her strategy is obvious given she doesn't contest any states won by Hillary.





















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Friday, November 25, 2016

Donald Trump just crossed over 300 votes in the Electoral College

Two weeks after Election Day, Donald Trump has won Michigan, the Detroit Free Press declared Wednesday night.

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Sunday, November 20, 2016

The Two Americas Of 2016: Barbara Boxer calls for ending Electoral College. The last thing America needs is city people deciding the fate of the rest of America





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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Trump cracks the Electoral College lock A new round of state polls shows Donald Trump suddenly has a path to 270 electoral votes



Just six weeks ago, Hillary Clinton's advantage in the Electoral College looked insurmountable. Now, based on the latest round of public polls, it's a different story.
If the election were held today, Donald Trump would apparently win roughly as many electoral votes as Hillary Clinton — who held a commanding lead in early August and seemed to be closing off all possible Trump routes to 270 electoral votes.

But state polling averages, which can be lagging indicators, are beginning to show Trump in the lead. According to POLITICO’s Battleground States polling average, Trump is now ahead in Iowa and Ohio — and he’s tied with Clinton in vote-rich Florida....







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Saturday, June 18, 2016

TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES NEEDED TO WIN - 270



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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Republicans pretty much HAVE to win Florida & Ohio to get to 270 Electoral Votes to win the White House



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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Democrats’ ‘blue wall’ not impregnable to Republicans — if they’re smart

◼ Do Republicans have a realistic chance to win the next presidential election? Some analysts suggest the answer is no.  - Michael Barone/Human Events

They argue that there is a 240-electoral-vote “blue wall” of 18 states and D.C. that have gone Democratic in the last six presidential elections.

A Democratic nominee needs only 30 more electoral votes to win the presidency, they note accurately. A Republican nominee, they suggest, has little chance of breaking through the blue wall. He (or she) would have to win 270 of the 298 other electoral votes.

Democrats do have an advantage in the electoral vote, because heavily Democratic clusters clinch about 170 electoral votes for them, while Republicans have a lock on only about 105. But the blue wall theory, like all political rules of thumb, is true only till it’s not. And this one could easily prove inoperative in a competitive 2016 race.... KEEP READING
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

For Republicans, a 2016 Tie Is a Win



◼ GOP virtually guaranteed to hold edge in event of deadlocked Electoral College - Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, elected to a third term earlier this month, often notes that the presidential cycle is harder for his party than midterms because the electorate is more diverse and Democratic. “For us to win a presidential election, we have to be just about perfect, and the Democrats have to be good,” he told Kyle Cheney of Politico....

While the Democrat needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency — a majority of the 538 available — the Republican only needs a 269-269 tie to win.

That’s because, in the event of a tie, the newly elected House will pick the president. Each state gets a single vote, so the party that controls a state’s House delegation will almost certainly cast its state’s vote for its candidate. (The Senate would select the vice president, and every senator gets a vote.)

Republicans dominate the states’ individual U.S. House delegations, and there’s no reason to suspect they will lose this advantage in 2016.

The GOP holds a majority of the House seats in 33 states, while Democrats only have a majority in 14....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

DID OBAMA WIN IN LANDSLIDE? BLUE STATE CREEP? 100 YEARS OF ELECTION MAPS WILL GIVE YOU SOME TRUE PERSPECTIVE



◼ How the country can change in just four years! - The Blaze
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Remember this: California’s Popular Vote Bill Signed Into Law

◼ Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that would award all of California’s 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections. - CBS August 8, 2011

The movement by a group called National Popular Vote aims to prevent a repeat of 2000, when Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote but Republican George W. Bush won the electoral vote. The group’s proposed changes would ensure the winner of the national popular vote becomes president.

With Brown’s signature Monday, California became the eighth state to sign on, giving the effort 132 of the 270 electoral votes it needs to take effect.

California and most other states currently have winner-take-all systems that give all the electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state.
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Sunday, November 4, 2012

ROMNEY LANDSLIDE: HERE ARE THE BIGGEST NAMES PREDICTING IT & HOW IT WILL HAPPEN

◼ More and more pundits on both political sides are taking the electoral leap and predicting a landslide for Mitt Romney. Here are some notable ones: - The Blaze

◼ 1. CNBC ANCHOR LARRY KUDLOW ”I am now predicting a 330 vote electoral landslide.”
◼ 2. MSNBC HOST JOE SCARBOROUGH
◼ 3. STRATEGIST KARL ROVE
◼ 4. COLUMNIST GEORGE WILL predicting a 321-217 landslide that included nearly every swing state including Minnesota.
◼ 5. PUNDIT DICK MORRIS "landslide"
◼ 6. COLUMNIST MICHEAL BARONE
◼ 7. LAS VEGAS ODDSMAKER WAYNE ALLEN ROOT
◼ 8. ISRAEL
BONUS: GLENN BECK “321-217 victory for Romney in the electoral college.”
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Second University of Colorado Prediction: Romney Landslide 330 to 208

◼ Updated election forecasting model still points to Romney win, University of Colorado study says - colorado.edu

According to their updated analysis, Romney is projected to receive 330 of the total 538 Electoral College votes. President Barack Obama is expected to receive 208 votes -- down five votes from their initial prediction -- and short of the 270 needed to win.

The new forecast by political science professors Kenneth Bickers of CU-Boulder and Michael Berry of CU Denver is based on more recent economic data than their original Aug. 22 prediction. The model itself did not change.

“We continue to show that the economic conditions favor Romney even though many polls show the president in the lead,” Bickers said. “Other published models point to the same result, but they looked at the national popular vote, while we stress state-level economic data.”
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Mittmentum Builds

◼ Michael Barone is America’s “one man decision desk,” with credibility on elections far beyond that of anyone else working the field in America today. - Hugh Hewitt/Townhall

Which is why Michael’s bold Washington Examiner column from yesterday cut through all the spin from Chicago and all the blather from MSNBC, and struck President Obama supporters in their gut.

Barone, having surveyed all the polling data from every source and all the early voting numbers from all the states, sees Mitt Romney rolling up 315 Electoral College votes, including the states of Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin –and Pennsylvania!

Other evidence is rolling in to back up Barone’s prediction, most especially the not-friendly-to-Romney Washington Post tracking poll which put the governor a point ahead of the president on Friday night, a post-Sandy sign of a momentum swing towards Romney.

He who surges last surges best in a presidential campaign, and it appears that Romney has indeed caught the last big wave.... Read the rest...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Michael Barone’s prediction:
Romney 315, Obama 223

◼ Barone: Going out on a limb: Romney beats Obama, handily - Michael Barone/Washington Examiner @michaelbarone

Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That's bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president.

But it's also true that most voters oppose Obama's major policies and consider unsatisfactory the very sluggish economic recovery -- Friday's jobs report showed an unemployment uptick.

Also, both national and target state polls show that independents, voters who don't identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, break for Romney....

Bottom line: Romney 315, Obama 223. That sounds high for Romney. But he could drop Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election. Fundamentals.

◼ Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Ohio, oh my - Allahpundit

Exit question: Which state is the subject of this sentence in the NYT? “But there is a tangible sense — seen in Romney yard signs on the expansive lawns of homes in the well-heeled suburbs, and heard in the excited voices of Republican mothers who make phone calls to voters in their spare time — that the race is tilting toward Mr. Romney.” Answer here. And they’re not alone.



◼ Charles Krauthammer: It Will Be Very Close But Mitt Romney Will Win the Presidency - FOX
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Sunday, October 7, 2012

The networks and the Associated Press have an insidious plan to help President Obama on Election Day that is being swept under the rug: they are cutting nineteen states from the list of exit polls they will report.

◼ The ostensible reason given is the rising cost of the surveys. Dan Merkle, director of elections for ABC News, and a member of the consortium that runs the polls, said the goal “is to still deliver a quality product in the most important states.” - William Bigelow/Breitbart

So just which states are being ignored? Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

The Washington Post tried to gloss over the scheme, noting “how carefully the exit poll planners allocated resources. All 19 of the states with no exit polls are classified as either “solid Obama” or “solid Romney.”

Really? Of the nineteen states (including Washington, D.C.) exactly 4 are for Obama, with a total of 14 electoral votes. The fifteen Romney states add up to 135.

It is utter hogwash that the exit polls were cut from these states because they were in the bag for one of the candidates. If Texas is cut, how about New York and California?

The real reason the consortium has cut these states is that they know that if they report fifteen states coming in for Romney early, independent voters in other states will take notice and be swayed his way.
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