Posted on 03/06/2015 2:57:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Allocations and apportionment argument aside, those in the districts still have to get out and vote to keep outnumbering those voters who are sane. In the end, it is the amount of votes cast wherever that make the difference.
That's exactly what Ford did for Nixon.
The Dems are not worried. They are confident that demographics will ensure their long-term victory within the next decade or two. They just need to fight to prevent any roll-back of their gains, and they are confident the Repubs don’t have the stomach for that kind of fight.
Hillary will not be the nominee. She is the Giuliani of the DNC. Just a popular name in the polls until a better alternative comes along.
Even New Jersey, which is pretty much a Marxist state when it comes to presidential elections and Senate elections, has a House delegation that is split 6-6 between the two major parties.
“I have no idea when she last had sex with the playboy of the western world
August 22, 1979. “
I thought that was with Web Hubble?
So, by your arguments I’m guessing you are one who thinks the popular vote should decide then?
To me, the whole tenet of the Electoral College and the way the 538 votes are apportioned is to protect regional interests throughout the 50 States, even those states that have small populations. This reasoning protects the totality of this Union - its morals, desires and environment, IMO. If the presidential vote were truly popular vote, the perhaps twenty (or less) cities and counties would decide the presidency every time. I certainly do not want that.
The number of votes in the college is fixed just like in the HoR. For the proportional mix to change one district has to gain in number of residents while others have to lose. IOW, a population shift to other areas. I like this. It’s why Northeastern states are losing seats and southern ones gaining.
Wishful thinking. As long as there are people who base decisions on feelings rather than facts, and who fall for people promising to give them goodies that they never earned, people will vote Democrat. As Rush has said, it's hard to run against Santa Claus. Leftist voters are not emotionally mature, and thus can always be manipulated into voting a certain way.
Such as they are, the current predictive models tend to presume less that the Democrats are bulletproof per se, and more that the party will field a strong and popular candidate in the mold of a Barack Obama or a John F. Kennedy or a William Jefferson Clinton and that this good candidate will start from a position of structural strength.
It does not matter who the candidate is, the MSM will portray that candidate as being charismatic. The candidate could be Jason from Friday the 13th, and the MSM would portray him as the most likable and compassionate guy ever. And liberal voters would swoon over him.
Bill Clinton strikes me as a psychopath, and gives me the creeps. I think that if I were alone with him, I'd have every guard up and feel like I'm walking on eggshells to avoid setting him off.
Obama is more narcissistic, so wouldn't set off the alarm bells. I wouldn't want to be around him because narcissistic people always try to manipulate others, and it is exhausting to deal with that.
In neither case does the actual man match the image of a charismatic leader that the MSM cultivated.
It's a shame that more voters don't see through the facades. But people who base everything on emotion, not thought, seem blind to created images.
I thought that was Webb Hubbell.
I thought that was with Web Hubble?
Kankles and webb were having an affair that produce the spawn from the she devil, and the ugly one was conceived May 27, 1979.
Hildabitch then had sex with willyjeff in August, to cover the time frame of the conception of the little bastard.
piaps does nothing without a plan.
Not only does Obama despise the Clintons, but a President Hillary Clinton could reveal what she knows about Obama, and he has to do what he can to prevent that.
Right now it’s a matter of mutually assured destruction, but let her get the presidency and his goose is cooked.
Old, feeble, ossified, borderline senile.
Progressives have been panicked about her for a long-time anyway. In their view she is a totally compromised self-interested corporate shill. I am sure they are behind this campaign to kneecap her.
If anything, I'd like to see an improvement on the current process by having every state adopt the same process as Maine and Nebraska. Instead of having a winner-take-all electoral vote, the winner of each Congressional district will get the electoral vote for that district ... while the winner for the state overall will get the two electoral votes associated with the two U.S. Senators.
That would be a huge improvement on the current process because every state would have competitive races in at least some of their districts.
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