[Caipirabob]

The “Hunger Games” pact. Bow down to your population heavy overlords, flyover country colonies! New York, Chicago and Los Angeles will decide the future of the entire country regardless of what the peasants want.

[fhayek]

I think that this would open the door to third parties. Think about it. While Democrats and Republicans fall all over themselves to split urban votes, some enterprising third party could swoop in and win a monopoly in the heartland.

[Biggirl]

....Look for a peasant revolt.

[adorno]

Bow down to your population heavy overlords, flyover country colonies! New York, Chicago and Los Angeles will decide the future of the entire country regardless of what the peasants want.

Actually, the "country" might be better off with the "flyover states" being left out of the decision to elect the president.

Because...

That would trigger, again, the concerns that the founding fathers had when they decided on the presidency being decided by the electoral college.

AND...

If the electoral college is eliminated, and the popular vote becomes the sole method for electing the president, and the coastal "blue states" were to become the "permanent majority" that elects ALL presidents...

then...

The "flyover states" would have indisputable grounds for secession from the union... like "taxation without representation" being one of those grievances...

All of which would bring about a destruction of the country, and the creation of several independent countries, where California could become the "Socialist State of Mexifornia", and New York (and perhaps other northeastern states) could create the "Europe of the Americas"...

And...

The "flyover states could band together to become the "new" United States of America.

The losers would be California and NY and the currently heavily blue states, where they would lose, not only a huge amount of their populations fleeing to the new U.S., but those "blue" independent countries would also see most of their businesses fleeing to the "formerly flyover" land of the U.S.

So, it's the democrats who should be careful what they wish for, because, they will get it, for certain, with the elimination of the electoral college.

Wou