Posted on 09/18/2007 1:24:44 PM PDT by presidio9
Karl Rove may have resigned as the President’s chief strategist, but the dirty and secretive tricks that have characterized the Republican Party in recent years are still here to stay. Leading California Republicans are promoting a dishonest initiative that steals electoral votes from California, a democratic state. Republicans attempting to steal votes in a major election? This smells all too familiar.
The initiative, crafted by a lawyer for the California Republican Party and member of the group misleadingly called "Californians for Equal Representation,” proposes to divide California's electoral votes based on results in each congressional district, rather than award the entire 55 electoral votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote. Proposed for the California ballot in June 2008, where voter turn-out is extremely low, this initiative would essentially give the next Republican presidential candidate as many as 19 additional votes--almost equal to all the electoral votes from Ohio and nearly all from Florida!
For many voters, this initiative upon first glance seems logical and fair. However, in the context of the rest of the country, where large red states in particular would still award their electoral votes to the candidate who won the popular vote, this ballot initiative is completely imbalanced and undemocratic. There is no way this initiative would create a more fair and balanced voting system in our country, unless it was uniformly adopted by ALL states.
This initiative shines a glaring spotlight on Republican hypocrisy. Republicans want to continue the same winner-take-all system in other big states that they consistently win, like Texas and Indiana. However, they want Democrats to share the electoral votes in California, a big blue state with the country’s most electoral votes. Democrats have been carrying California in recent elections. Even if Democrats were to win the state in 2008, Republicans would still get a substantial number of electoral votes under this new law.
If passed, this initiative would make a democratic victory in any major election extremely difficult. We can not let the Republican Party pull the wool over our eyes and steal yet another election.
Please visit Californians for Fair Election Reform to sign a petition in support of rejecting the GOPs California electoral power grab: http://www.fairelectionreform.com/
And visit the Courage Campaign’s web site to sign their petition and learn more about this important issue. http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/content/20for20onActBlue/
Mrs. “Happy 9/11”. STFU!
Duncan Hunter would carry those votes making him an ideal VP pick.
You beat me to it
Thank you for not insulting our intelligence with a juvenile “Barf Alert!”.
These Bolshevik idiots are priceless.
Mrs. “Happy 9/11”! LOL!! Brolin and Babs....a pairing made in heaven.
But Barbara... Shouldn’t every vote be counted? Why give all of them to Hillary just because she gets 50.01% of the vote in California? Isn’t that disenfranchising the other 49.99%?
That line of reasoning didn't exactly help Kerry in North Carolina.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Smells just like the Democrats in Colorado a few years back. Oh, did you forget about that, Babs? ;)
My favorite part about this lame-brained idea is that in rest of the country, it is generally the Democrats who are pushing this idiotic concept.
True, but Edwards is no Hunter.
I doubt it. Hunter is a complete unknown outside San Diego County. He offers no California coattails whatsoever.
Oh Babs ... stuff a dirty rag in your mouth.
You’re idiotic!
Didn’t the dems try this in Colorado first? She is such a dink.
LOL.
Must be true, the old saying that if you want to see what a liberal is doing, just watch what they’re accusing you of doing.
She even said “Karl Rove”, hahahah.
the Democrats have been trying the same thing in Colorado
Turnabout is fair play. The DemocRATS wanted to apportion Colorado’s electoral vote the same way.
But, to be fair... Babs wrote a similar piece 3 years ago when Colorado tried to do it to benefit the Dems... didn’t she?
Oh, nevermind.
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