Dear Editor:
Do you remember the 1960 World Series? I do, since the NY Yankees are my favorite Major League Baseball team. Game 1 - Pittsburgh 6, NYY 4; Game 2 - NYY 16, Pittsburgh 3; Game 3 - NYY 10, Pittsburgh 0; Game 4 - Pittsburgh 3, NYY 2; Game 5 - Pittsburgh 5, NYY 2; Game 6 - NYY 12, Pittsburgh 0; and Game 7 - Pittsburgh 10, NYY 9.
According to the Democrats, the NY Yankees won the World Series because they scored 55 total runs whereas the Pirates only scored 27 runs. Is that how the World Series turned out? No, Democrats, the Pirates won because they won four games and the NY Yankees only won three games. Same way with the Electoral College in this last election. It matters NOT that your candidate won the popular vote, it is in the Electoral College where the president is elected.
If these Democrats feel that the popular vote is so important, then why in the world do they have these "so called" super delegates? Was it just to deny their nomination to Bernie Sanders, since most of the Democrat "elites" wanted Hillary?
There was a letter in the Dec. 4 News Tribune that said, in part, "The electoral system was designed to give smaller states an edge in deciding our president." Contrary to this statement, "Delegates from the small states generally favored the Electoral College out of concern large states would otherwise control presidential elections."
"In Federalist No. 39, James Madison argued the Constitution was designed to be a mixture of state-based and population-based government. Congress would have two houses: the state-based Senate and the population-based House of Representatives." Notice that until the 17th amendment, U.S. senators were selected by each state's legislature, rather than by popular vote, which gave the states representation in the U.S. Congress.
Another statement in part, "Disproportionate representation in the U.S. Senate." The U.S. Senate was designed to represent the various states, not the "direct" representative of the people. The U.S. House of Representatives was designed to be the "direct" representatives of the people.
Another statement states in part, "District boundaries have been gerrymandered to disenfranchise Democrats". When the Democrats were in the majority, their gerrymandering to disenfranchise Republicans and blacks, was I guess OK with this letter writer. The bar to change the Electoral College is high, as it is part of Article 2 of the Constitution.
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