On Monday evening, Senator Elizabeth Warren
did her town hall with CNN where she brought
up the idea of abolishing the electoral college.
She said, this is a plan that I think has
merit and I think we should pursue it, and
she's absolutely right.
The electoral colleges usefulness in this
country, if it ever even had usefulness died
out a long time ago.
Consider the fact that four out of the last
five presidential elections, the Democratic
candidate won the popular vote.
Yet they only won the presidency twice out
of those five elections for time winners only
two times getting the prize.
Does that seem right?
Does that seem like the characteristic of
a healthy country to you were the person who
didn't actually, when the person that most
people didn't want to be president somehow
became president?
This is not a matter of Democrats versus Republicans
and Democrats are mad that we didn't get to
win because the electoral college, that's
not what this is about.
What this is about is making sure that every
vote in this country matters.
Because right now with the electoral college,
it doesn't your vote, depending on where you
live, doesn't matter if you live at a high
population swing state, you matter.
If you live in Wyoming, you're vote doesn't
matter at all.
You're basically just as well sending home
and not voting.
And I hate to say that I don't want people
to not vote, but that's what the electoral
college does.
Why would we fight over your three electoral
votes that aren't really going to do anything
when we could be fighting over the 27 electoral
votes down here in this swing state, Florida,
that's a no brainer to me.
Or you change it to just a popular vote and
suddenly your vote in Wyoming is worth the
same amount as a guys vote down here in Florida.
It's worth the same amount of somebody's vote
in Texas or California.
Yeah, they have bigger overall populations,
but suddenly your vote carries the same weight
as theirs.
Instead of having to put your weight as a
state against the weight of a California cause
you're never going to win that one.
You never going to win against Texas or New
York or Florida or Ohio or Pennsylvania.
Removing the electoral college makes everybody's
vote matter.
It would actually incentivize candidates to
go to areas where they previously would not
have gone.
You know, we typically don't see Democrats
coming down and campaigning and Alabama or
Mississippi, but suddenly, you know, you got
30 40% of the population there likes Democrats.
Suddenly they've got to fight for those 30
40% and they're going to make trips to places
they've never been before.
Same thing with Republicans.
You know, typically they'll go to upstate
New York, but they're not going to campaign
down there in the city.
Oh, that liberal bastion of uh, you know,
craziness.
No, suddenly they have to, again, Wyoming,
Nebraska typically, not always, but typically
you guys kind of get overlooked.
You're, you're what they call the flyover
country.
Suddenly they've got to go out there and fight
for your votes.
And what's ironic here is that the biggest
cry from the Republican's right now who oppose
this idea is that, oh well then they won't
campaign in the small states.
They'll only go to the big states.
What?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
I don't even understand how you can twist
your brain to make that kind of logic.
The swing states, the big states, the high
population states suddenly aren't as important.
It's everybody's vote.
They will be going to places where they typically
would not, both Democrats and Republicans
winning over voters that in the past they
wouldn't have even tried to win over there
fighting for your vote at this point, not
just the electoral votes of your state.
Things get a lot more real when you have to
reach every individual person, not just a
majority of somebody in one particular area.
This would be a benefit for this country.
It would bring more accountability, more honesty,
more integrity, and it would make sure that
every single American citizens vote counted.
I don't see how anyone in their right mind
could oppose this plan.
