Pushing for a change state by state would probably be the smartest thing the GOP could do in order to keep all of our elections from being controlled by deep blue urban areas.
Prime examples from the 2012 election map can be seen in Pennsylvania where all 20 electoral votes went to Obama in a state with limited blue districts. Had those votes been allocated by district he would have only gotten 8.
I think this is a worth while cause to be taken up on a state by state basis.
I wonder why it has taken so long for something so obvious to be considered?
This just might bite you in the end.
I am thinking of states like Texas.
Still, it would make for a more interesting race.
I tend to like the idea of Electoral votes being allocated based upon Congressional districts, but I haven’t given it A LOT of thought. I know one thing for certain, it would turn the presidential campaigns upside down, and election night coverage might be slowed a good bit. We would see candidates traveling to states they wouldn’t ordinarily go to which is a good thing.
Thank God, we’d finally see diminished, the idea of “Red STATES” and “Blue STATES”, because in many many states, a Congressional district could be taken, providing an Electoral Vote that would otherwise be unavailable.
Actually, it’s the WORST thing Republicans could do.
It “may” have mattered ONLY in this last election, which is a really bad frame of reference for making this far reaching change.
Is there any chance this could actually happen? This would destroy Democrats. Not to worry however. Obama can claim the Republicans are trying to disenfranchise voters, then issue an executive order to prevent it.
Different states are moving in different directions depending upon on their politics. The ones where eliminating WTA would benefit conservatives the most are Dim states with sizeable Repub minorities. So places like California despite professing to hate the Electoral College will not do this to avoid helping enfranchise Republicans and noncity voters.
Repeal the 17th. This is why many Republicans in states with large cities have no voice in the Senate.
The Dems won’t go for this.....they would lose consistently.
The good news is that it puts a firewall around all the vote fraud plagued inner cities. The bad news is that it won’t get enacted in a state unless the Republicans control the governor’s office and the legislature.
I support this notion for Ohio, and any other state that’s interested.
The down side of this approach will the constant attempts a gerrymandering every congressional district every time there is a change in the State leadership roles.
That I can live with, for now. At least it gets my voice back on a level playing field with the libtard Buckeyes who threw the state to Zero and the 0bamunists in November.
Interestingly, I broached the subject to my State Rep and he tells me it’s a Federal issue. I sent it to my Congresscritter and he tells me it’s a State issue.
Gotta luv the buck-passin’
oh goodie....the repubs are looking more and more like the dims
And trust me when I say that ANY changes to the electoral college will in fact gut what is left of our republic. The left has been pushing hard for this approach for a long time....hmmm I wonder why....BECAUSE they really want a democracy where the popular vote is all that counts.
Our founders were wise in how they set elections up we ought to honor.
Just for fun assuming nationwide application of this approach for the past election
it would have resulted in the following: Anyone please correct if I made a miscalculation.
Party Divisions — US House, 2013
233 Republicans
200 Democrats
0 Independents
2 Vacancies — democrat
3 Washington DC EC votes — democrat
States Popular Vote X 2 for Senators (100)
26 X 2 = 52 — Democrat
24 X 2 = 48 — Republican
Total — 538 EC Votes
GOP — 281 (233 House, 48 Senator)
DEM — 257 (205 House, 52 Senator)
This would have to have all states using the allocation
method and that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
Reapportioning electoral votes in this way is a much better system. That way, those hardly believable 100% Obama wards and precincts will have no more affect on the rest of the state.
I think we all know that the reason for the voter registration drives is to expand the lists so that the corrupt election workers (such as those wearing Obama hats in polling places or sitting in front of Obama murals in polling places) can mark any leftover ballots for the democrats.
Representation in the assembly that is the Electoral College needs to be brought back into balance to reflect the actual population and their votes.
YES!!! I’ve been advocating this for years!
Majority vote winner for the state gets both Electoral votes for the two Senators...the rest of the state split up by congressional districts
One would think Dems would LOVE this idea since they LOVE to gerrymander districts / S
Also since libtards LOVE the idea of the popular vote winner, this is a step closer and actually pretty fair way to give everybody a say so and their vote will count...
This is actually a way to get gerrymandered districts to be broken up by state legislation's to give more "purple" districts that could go either way a much larger say in the end result...
Hey, this may be a stupid idea, but how about we let the States decide how they select the electoral colleges they send, and how about the state legislatures select the federal senators?
Idiotic idea that reeks of desperation.
