Posted on 12/16/2012 7:51:50 PM PST by neverdem
In most states, presidential elections are fairly simple. Whichever candidate garners the most votes wins all of that state’s electoral votes. There are two tiny exceptions (Maine and Nebraska), but that’s typically how it works. President Obama won a majority of votes in Pennsylvania, so he got all 20 of its electoral votes.
Over the past year, however, a number of Republican lawmakers in blue states have been pushing an alternative system. The states would split their electoral votes between different candidates. As Dave Weigel points out, this was first floated by conservatives in Ohio and Pennsylvania before the 2012 election, only to get shot down. But now the idea’s steadily making a comeback. So let’s look at some of the different proposals here — as well as what effect they would have had on the 2012 presidential election.
Pennsylvania I: Last year, Republican State Senate Leader Dominic Pileggi proposed a bill that would...
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Virginia: Ari Berman points to another recent proposal from Virginia State Sen. Charles Carrico Sr. This one goes much further than any of the above plans. Electoral votes get divided by congressional district. On top of that, another two electoral votes would go to the candidate who wins the most districts. So, in 2012, Obama won the popular vote in Virginia. But under Carrico’s plan, Romney would have received 9 electoral votes and Obama would have received just 4.
One common argument for these plans is that it gives rural voters a greater voice; Dave Weigel dissects that strange logic here. But there’s also an undeniable partisan appeal. As Berman points out, if GOP-controlled legislatures in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Florida, and Pennsylvania had all adopted versions of this vote-splitting plan, then Romney would have won the White House with 270 electoral votes in 2012...
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I have an answer. Pull the spark plugs from all the school buses!
The major urban areas have declared war on “flyover country”, there is no doubt remaining.
Call in air strikes?
If so, then seige warfare is in order, vastly reduce the amount of food shipped to the cities.
Sit back and watch Social Darwinism at its finest.
After every presidential it seems members of the losing party propose some change to the electoral college.
After every presidential it seems members of the losing party propose some change to the electoral college.
My main concern with this system would be the application of recounts in the event of a close (or maybe not so close) election. Seem a candidate could select dozens of favorable districts with which to request a recount from, across many states. I'm sure the various voter fraud machines and the lawyers would be thrilled with this aspect of the change if it were done nationwide.
I believe after this last election all of California’s electoral votes go to whomever wins the nationwide popular vote.
Sounds reasonable and right.
And the 17th Amendment must be abolished as well as others from that dark period in America known as the so-called “progressive” era. The reality is that those laws were actually regressive, destroying what the enlightened Founding Fathers had put into place.
Check this out:
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
Personally I don’t believe their polls. They claim that in my state, SC, 71% want popular vote. No way!
Polling was done by Public Policy Polling, a RAT outfit. Go figure.
This would be a temporary fix at best.
Point being, it wouldn't even take a week for total anarchy and a month for 90% casualties in urban areas
Point being, it wouldn't even take a week for total anarchy and a month for 90% casualties in urban areas
I think that was done in 2010. It’s immaterial. It only takes effect when enough states have signed the compact to ‘give’ the White House to the national popular vote winner. It had not happened yet. Perhaps it has now and I missed that news.
Thanks for the link.
Most school buses have diesel engines.
:^(
Essentially proving everything I ever thought about cities. You have no idea how much that warms the cockles of my heart...whatever cockles are.
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