Posted on 02/01/2012 9:23:12 AM PST by newgeezer
The greatest fear I have for my country is that its current leaders have forsaken freedom and opportunity and instead have us on a path of debt, dependency division and decline. One of the darkest examples of this is ObamaCare.
The next President of the United States must make it a priority to repeal ObamaCare and its taxes, its cuts to Medicare, its requirements, subsidies, and health care exchanges. Only a full repeal can reverse the damage this monstrous new government program will cause.
If we are going to repeal ObamaCare, we need to nominate someone who we know will make it a priority. Mitt Romney is not that candidate. RomneyCare is nearly identical to ObamaCare in every significant way. Beyond just the individual mandate, both plans implement price controls, create new government bureaucracies, and make large cuts to other healthcare programs.
As conservatives, we simply cannot afford to nominate the man who built the model for Obamney Care. That is why we are launching a $1 million Stop ObamneyCare Money Bomb. Newt Gingrich is the candidate who will put this country back on the path to freedom and opportunity, will give voice to the concerns and frustrations of the American people, and will make it a priority to repeal Obamney Care.
If you believe, as I do, that repealing Obamney Care should be job #1 for our nominee, and if you believe that Newt Gingrich is the best candidate to do just that, then make a donation today to the Stop ObamneyCare Money Bomb.
With the support of great Americans like you, we can not only nominate Speaker Gingrich and repeal ObamneyCare, but we can rebuild the America we love.
Sincerely,
Fred Thompson
Deciding how to award electoral votes is an exclusive state power!
The current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but since enacted by 48 states), under which all of a state’s electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state, ensures that the candidates, after the primaries, in 2012 will not reach out to about 76% of the states and their voters. Candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, campaign, or care about the voter concerns in the dozens of states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind.
More than 2/3rds of the states and people have been just spectators to the presidential elections. That’s more than 85 million voters.
Policies important to the citizens of ‘flyover’ states are not as highly prioritized as policies important to ‘battleground’ states when it comes to governing.
States have the responsibility and power to make all of their voters relevant in every presidential election and beyond.
Unable to agree on any particular method, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method for selecting presidential electors exclusively to the states by adopting the language contained in section 1 of Article II of the U.S. Constitution— “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . .” The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as “plenary” and “exclusive.”
Federalism concerns the allocation of power between state governments and the national government. The National Popular Vote bill concerns how votes are tallied, not how much power state governments possess relative to the national government. The powers of state governments are neither increased nor decreased based on whether presidential electors are selected along the state boundary lines, or national lines (as with the National Popular Vote).
Make "all" of their voters relevant? Impossible. But, that Popular Vote Initiative b*llsh*t effectively makes FEW OR NONE of their voters relevant by saying NO MATTER how OUR state votes, we pledge to cast our Electoral College votes however the rest of the country says we should.
With National Popular Vote, every vote from every state would be politically relevant to the candidates, and included equally in the national popular vote total that determines the presidency. Each state’s votes would be part of the national vote.
National Popular Vote would give a voice to the minority party voters in each state. Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for. Now they don’t matter to their candidate. Minority party voters in each state will have an incentive to vote.
Majority party votes in every state will not be wasted.
Oklahoma (7 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 455,000 “wasted” votes for Bush in 2004 — larger than the margin generated by the 9th and 10th largest states, namely New Jersey and North Carolina (each with 15 electoral votes). Utah (5 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 385,000 “wasted” votes for Bush in 2004. 8 small western states, with less than a third of California’s population, provided Bush with a bigger margin (1,283,076) than California provided Kerry (1,235,659). As just some examples, Texas wasted 1,691,267 Republican votes, Georgia wasted 544,634 Republican votes, North Carolina wasted 426,778 Republican votes.
Interesting, some of the non-establishment GOP are really stepping up to the plate for Gingrich.
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