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Opinion
by John

National Popular Vote - It's Really a Bad Deal for America

9/11/2020

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Why the National Popular Vote Scheme is a Bad Deal
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In the last 20 years, much has been said about the method that the United States uses to elect the President, called the Electoral College. That’s largely because of a well-financed assault against it by a few people who revere direct democracy.

That assault is known as the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC)" scheme.
 
The published desire of NPVIC backers is to effectively elect the President by direct democracy and end the constitutional role that our states have.  "The one with the MOST votes wins!" is their slogan and it sounds so virtuous, doesn't it?  There is a lot more to it than that!
 
Most Americans correctly believe a constitutional amendment is required to pass this scheme. However, supporters of the NPVIC have cooked up what they claim is a perfect “workaround” to the Constitution—a contract among a minority of states, called a “compact.” 
 
Proponents of the NPVIC sell this plan to state legislators using fundamentally misguided arguments. Instead of trying to change the Constitution, supporters of the NPVIC use faulty logic to try and pass their unworkable idea. 

The Electoral College is Timeless - There is Nothing for 21st Century 'Brainiacs' to Correct!
 
The foundation of the NPVIC argument is that the population of the United States is supposed to elect the President.  They claim that the limitations of 18th Century technology prevented that. This claim is false, just like most of the rest of their sales pitch.
 
Supporters of the NPVIC don’t understand that the President is the chief executive officer of the States Federation, and his or her duties, assigned by Article II of the Constitution, include leading the nation collectively and representing the states. The President isn’t supposed to control the day to day operations of government our Domestic governance  —that is the job of state governments.
 
The Electoral College Is a Major Check Against Federal Tyranny

States serve as the counterweight to the federal government as a vital part of the overall system of checks and balances the Founders devised.  It is a basic, foundational and structural structure that keeps the States in position to collectively serve as the best force to keep the Federal government confined to the Cage that is the Constitution.
 
It is the states’ duty to decide who the President is. The Founders understood that the American people could more easily hold their state officials accountable than they could hold distant federal officials accountable. Removing presidential selection from the states removes their ability to influence who governs them.
 
Confusion has sprung from the fact that, since 1880, every state has asked its citizens to choose state electors. Populations have never been asked to directly elect a President for very deliberate reasons. The President’s popular election was brought up at least four times during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, debated and firmly rejected every time.
 
The left-leaning NPVIC financiers are attempting to massively change this nation and dramatically weaken our states converting America into a monolithic democratic socialist country.

No Presidential Candidate Has EVER Received a Single Popular Vote!
 
The foundation of the NPVIC sales pitch begins by making sure that everyone in the room believes that the American President is supposed to be elected by the general population in a direct democratic election, where a plurality – “the one with the most votes wins” – chooses the President. They then add in the believable layer that in the 1780s, high-speed communications and travel could not even be imagined. Therefore, with their limited view of technology, the Founders had to create a handicapping system allowing for their 18th-century limitations. 
 
History shows us, though, that the Founders did consider several times during the 1787 Constitutional Convention electing the President by a popular vote – and repeatedly, the Framers debated the idea and resoundingly rejected it. They knew, almost unanimously, from studying history that democracies tend to implode in short order. They realized that the population was the least informed segment in the country and the most easily manipulated.
 
There are numerous other deceptions and flaws in most of the NPVIC sales pitch as it actually solves none of the so-called “problems” that it advertises it will solve.
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    John Crawford has been a lifelong Constitutional Conservative.  He graduated from Michigan State University in Business Administration and worked on his MBA at Western Michigan University.  He has been very active in grassroots politics and in volunteer community service organizations his entire career.
    John has been a small business owner for many years, employing up to 20 people at one time, and has served as the full-time CEO of a local Chamber of Commerce for 13 years.  He has served on over a half-dozen Non-Profit Boards of Directors for more than 23 years.
    He is a strong advocate for the Founding Fathers of the United States, a defender of the Constitution and the Electoral College and opposes efforts to dismantle this and other vital Checks and Balances designed into the American Federation of States.

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