Popular Vote

Colorado voters approved Proposition 113 this week to join a national pact that will elect a president based on the popular vote in place of the Electoral College.

A coalition of leftist groups is “secretly” discussing how to mobilize and prepare for what it envisions as a “political apocalypse” full of violence and chaos if Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden fails to win a landslide victory on November 3, the Daily Beast reported Monday.

The Virginia House of Delegates has passed legislation seeking to award its electoral votes to whomever the wins the popular vote.

“I think that the Electoral College has run its course and in the future, we ought to pick our presidents in a way that makes sure that the one who got the most votes actually gets to be president,” Buttigieg said in a CNN town hall on Thursday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Nina Turner, the National Co-Chair of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign stated that “so many people in 2016, and even Mr. Buttigieg said the same thing, that the person that wins

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took her beef with the Electoral College a step further over the weekend, expressing her hope to be the “last American president elected by the Electoral College.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) openly mocked the Electoral College, and as a consequence, Middle America’s voice, in an Instagram video posted Monday.

In an interview with “GirlBoss Radio” released Wednesday, longshot 2020 White House candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) declared twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was “the most qualified, capable person ever to run for president.”

Maine is on the verge of joining those states giving up their rights under the Electoral College and changing election rules to award the state’s vote to the winner of the popular vote.

A proposal making its way through the Ohio statehouse would award Ohio’s electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote in presidential elections if it passes.

“With the Popular Vote, you go to just the large States – the Cities would end up running the Country,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Smaller States & the entire Midwest would end up losing all power – and we can’t let that happen.”

Colorado has become the 12th state agreeing to ditch the Electoral College and give all electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote in presidential elections.

Democrat Colorado Gov. Jared Polis will sign a recently passed bill that would award Colorado’s presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote instead of the Electoral College.

A Colorado state house committee passed a bill that would allow the state’s presidential electoral votes to go to the candidate who wins the popular vote instead of the Electoral College.

The Democratic-majority Colorado state Senate passed a bill this week that would give the state’s electoral votes in presidential elections to the candidate who wins the popular vote instead of the Electoral College.

Ardent critic of the president, Rep. Steve Cohen was at the ready introducing a constitutional amendment to eliminate the electoral college as Democrats took over the House Thursday.

The Los Angeles Times points out an odd bit of presidential trivia as 2017 comes to a close: President Donald Trump is the first president since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower not to visit the State of California in his first full year in office.

Katy Perry took a moment during her hosting duties at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards to poke fun at President Donald Trump for losing the popular vote during the 2016 presidential election to Democrat Hillary Clinton, though he ultimately ended up winning the presidency.

Following the firing of FBI Director Comey, President Trump said “This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. And the reason they should have won it is the Electoral College is almost impossible for a Republican to win. Very hard. Because you start off at such a disadvantage.”

Hillary Clinton’s ex-campaign chief John Podesta is complaining again about the fact that his failed campaign still won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Donald Trump’s statements on the crowd size at the Inauguration and about people voting illegally is evidence of “a character problem.” Krauthammer said, “I

“This is something the President-elect has discussed both on the ‘Thank You’ rally tour that he has had and other occasions,” spokesman Jason Miller says about Donald Trump’s tweets. “So there’s nothing new here.”

During a statement on Tuesday, former Vice President Al Gore argued that the Electoral College should be abolished in favor of a popular vote system. Gore said he supported keeping the Electoral College even after the 2000 election, because it

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that besides winning the Electoral College “in a landslide” in the Nov. 8 election: “I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

One of the most pernicious factoids floating around since Election Day has been the assertion that Donald Trump won the presidency with fewer votes than Mitt Romney received in 2012, or John McCain received in 2008.

The Left has packed an awful lot of crazy into the days since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. (Should there have been a trigger warning in front of that sentence?)

The 3,084 counties in America’s heartland, where Trump dominated with a healthy 7 point margin, accounted for 85.6 percent of all votes cast.

Celebrating the defeat of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, the CBC is framing Canada’s election as a battle of good versus evil, with the heroic Justin Trudeau and his Liberals overcoming the “dark forces” of the Canadian right.