Should the Electoral College be eliminated? Kamala’s V.P. candidate, Tim Walz, seems to think so, as does a columnist for the Hill, Myra Adams. It would take a Constitutional amendment for them to get their way, which would change the United States from a republic to a “tyranny of the majority.”
Tuesday, Oct. 8th, Democratic Party V.P. candidate Tim Walz spoke at a fundraiser held at the home of California Governor Gavin Newsome. According to the N.Y. Post and others, one position he addressed was, “I think of us know that the Electoral College needs to go in favor of settling presidential elections by the national popular vote.”
The Harris campaign said removing the Electoral College was not their candidate’s position. Therefore, Waltz took a baby step back by saying his job is to support the presidential candidate’s position, and that’s what he will do.
At The Hill, columnist Myra Adams claimed that Walz’s original position was correct, saying in part:
Imagine a presidential election without battleground states. No continuous reporting about how older white voters, suburban women, men without college degrees and union members from three “blue wall” states could swing the election.
Keep imagining a president elected by the popular vote after the mysterious and increasingly troublesome Electoral College is eliminated — an election where the presidential candidates would campaign nationwide, not just in seven battleground states needed to reach the crucial 270 electoral votes.
Removing the Electoral College (in favor of a popular vote) is serious, like a magnitude 10 earthquake. Adams does not admit that eliminating the Electoral College will result in five liberal-leaning states determining the president by themselves.
Take away the Electoral College; any votes cast outside of five Democratic Party-leaning states would NOT count. Elections would be mainly determined by the votes of five huge liberal states: New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois.
On the other hand, the battleground states are neither GOP nor Democratic party-leaning. That’s why they’re called battlegrounds. The results of those states change based on the positions of the candidates.
Unlike the direct election desired by Walz and Adams, the battleground states do not determine the election by themselves. They need the support of other states to get to the magic 270 Electoral College votes.
If the Electoral College was eliminated, the 45 states outside the big five would no longer matter to national candidates, and their states could be ignored.
America’s fourth president, James Madison, is also known as the Father of the Constitution because he outlined the framework of the founding document.
The Electoral College was created to prevent what James Madison called the tranny of the majority. The system of electing a President outlined in the Constitution is carefully balanced to safeguard both the majority and the minority’s rights.
“Madison discusses the way republican government can serve as a check on the power of factions and the tyranny of the majority. “[I]n the federal republic of the United States… all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.” All of the Constitution’s checks and balances, Madison concludes, serve to preserve liberty by ensuring justice. Madison explained, “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society.”
The Electoral College allows every American citizen a voice in who leads the country, who represents their interests, and what direction we go as a country. It forces a president to heed the needs and wants of the different states.
If Walz’s goal of destroying the Electoral College becomes a constitutional amendment, the United States will no longer be a Democratic Republic. It will become a permanent left-wing tyranny, which, because of its power, will be able to solidify and increase its rule.
In his book Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville said some positive things about the U.S. Constitution, claiming institutions such as the Electoral College could help prevent the majority from having total rule over the rest of the country.
Most probably, the direct election position is based on Walz and Adams’ desire for a permanent tyranny of a leftist majority.
