Posted on 05/11/2015 7:20:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many savvy political analysts believe the Democrats have a built in advantage in the Electoral College. Democrats have won four of the last six Presidential elections, and in all six races, they have won a collection of 18 states plus the District of Columbia, now totaling 242 Electoral College votes.
These states include all of the New England states except New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. Democrats have won 5 of the last 6 Presidential contests in New Hampshire, Iowa, and New Mexico, three states with 15 Electoral College votes. Since 270 Electoral College votes are needed for victory, if history is a guide, Democrats start off with a collection of states that puts them very close to victory. The blue wall is not mythology.
Republicans also have some states where they have had a string of six straight victories, but there are only 13 of them with 102 electoral college votes: Alaska, Wyoming, Alabama, Kansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
This comparison of 242 versus 102, is not, however, a realistic look at the GOP’s current position. There are several southern or border states, and a few western states that have been reliably Republican in the last four cycles, but voted for Bill Clinton once or twice, including Georgia, Arizona, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Montana, and West Virginia. Indiana strayed once for Obama in 2008, but otherwise has been won by Republicans in the other five most recent Presidential elections. North Carolina has also been won by Republicans in five of the last six elections, but has been decided by razor thin margins in the last two cycles
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After a few more years of the federal government seeding America’s small towns and cities with hundreds of thousands black muslims from Africa and Arab muslims from the mid-east, coupled with the millions of illegal aliens Obama is bringing in across the Rio Grande, it won’t be long before democrats will have an insurmountable majority in national elections.
We are in trouble, battling uphill.
After all the White Christians are dead or deported they will still be blaming them for their miserable meaningless unhappy lives.
I want proportional electoral allocation in Michigan.
Candidates will get electors from the districts they win.
As well as participating in the ruse in which the federal government taxes the citizens directly and then dangles the funds in front of the states in the form of "grants", "guaranteed loans", etc., in exchange for its compliance.
Seriously, if the Republicans leadership keep foisting utterly worthless candidates for POTUS on the party, they will continue to lose big. This time they want Jeb Bush or Romney again, both of which are losers.
And the leadership are more than willing to throw the match to the Democrats to prevent a conservative from winning. Until the party is purged of its Whig, RINO, and GOP-e Chamber of Commerce types, it is destined to fail. It is a slow and steady process, but hopefully conservatives can show them the door.
The way for Republicans to win Pennsylvania is to scare the bejeezus out of voters about Democrat gun grabs.
Republicans should have done this in Pennsylvania in 2013 or 2014 before they lost the Governor’s race. The rule change in this state might have pocketed the GOP as many as 13 Electoral College votes, even if they lost the state, the same as winning an extra Virginia.
The GOP here in Pennsylvania had solid majorities in both houses of the legislature, just such a bill introduced, and a GOP governor who had just been solidly elected in 2011. It was our RINO state GOP chair who made sure the bill never made it out of committee.
His dumb@$$ed excuse was that we could win all 20. If so, it would have been a blow out election where the GOP won 320 or more electoral votes and the extra seven would've made no difference in the outcome.
His real reason was loss of influence in the national GOP organization which, as we all know, tilts heavily to the RINO side far out of proportion to national numbers.
The big problem is not the order of the primaries, the marathon structure or anything of the sort so much as it is the allocation of delegates.
A fairer system would award:
And, yes, Wyoming might actually end up with more delegates than Massachusetts under this formula. If it is unfair, then it is unfair to Wyoming, which has delivered 12 of 12 possible electoral votes to the GOP ticket over the last four election cycles whereas Massachusetts has delivered exactly 0.
If conservatives had any sense we would demand that delegate allocations be based on three sets of fifths:
The democrats did it one state at a time. Go through on a state by state basis and you will find how they built that wall. In New Hampshire they allow same day registration. Ergo, people in Massachusetts can drive across the border and vote twice. In other states it is farm subsidies that do the trick. In Virginia they simply bloated the size of the Federal Government and moved the workers to Northern VA. In Pennsylvania, 200% of the population vote 100% democrat. An on and on and on.
I hate to say it but the only way to reverse this course is on a state by state, brick by brick plan. I am not sure that can be done prior to 2016.
This is due to them realizing they were fighting a GOP advantage at the same time the GOP was squandering it.
Most all these “blue” states have a single Democrat machine run large city or area. Look at ‘08 and ‘12... you will see many times Obama won these areas by many more votes than he won the state. In some of these cases I must wonder if the “Chicago Rule” is in effect... “everybody gets to cast a ballot, but the votes have already been counted”. IMHO the Dem opposition to voter ID is not just letting illegals vote, but it allows illegal votes to be “manufactured”... without requiring a real person (legal or not) to actually enter a voting booth. If ya know what I mean.
The solution to this is for folks in Blue and Purple states with a GOP Majority in the State Houses, to start NOW convincing their State Legislatures to pass legislation awarding EVs by Congressional Districts rather than a statewide winner-take-all. This is Constitutionally o.k. and it is doable.
The only difference between the Democrats and Republicans that I can see is that the GOP actually advances the Democrat agenda faster.
If the Republicans start standing for something, they have a good chance.
In 2014, several governorships changed from Dem to Republican.
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Arkansas had 2 Dem Senators, 3 or 4 Dem House Representatives, and a Dem governor when Obama took office. Since then, all of those have reverted to Republican.
It took a Republican to deseat Blanche Lincoln in 2010 and another Republican to deseat David Pryor in 2014.
Now, the Senate, House and Governorship are all Republicans.
Since 2008, Arkansas has done a complete flip from Democrat control to Republican control. Many of those Republicans, however, are of the moderate variety, so it is difficult to see much improvement.
Electoral College is scam put in place to help Politicians
RE: Electoral College is scam put in place to help Politicians
Well, for that,we have to blame our founding fathers who gave us this “scam” ( Note the quotes ).
BINGO it’s came to pass if voting counted they wouldn’t let us do it.
The good old boy club knows more than the voter.
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