It's the Electoral College that ensures that every vote has equal weight, you boob! Otherwise we should nuke NYC and LA to "keep things even".
Oh, I get it. You want to be able to vote for someone who leads the whole country but you don’t actually want the whole country to get to choose that leader.
Texas needs to join with several other states with a combined total of more than 270 electoral votes and all enact legislation prohibiting their states from ever entering into this compact. That would end this stupidity once and for all.
More leftist pap
Nobody ever mentions the fact that crooked Hillary also campaigned for ElECTORAL votes. NOT the popular vote.
Funny they never mention that fact.
Democrats’ “Disenfranchise The Vote” movement. “Let’s all vote for who L.A. and NYC say we should!!!”
>> Every state in this country should have equal weight. <<
How'd-ja like that beyotch?
Okay; then we make a law that any state that does this is excluded from the electoral college count and the amount needed to win will be reduced by the number of electoral votes those states have. Simple.
Game, set, match.
The state disenfranchises its voters so the nation disenfranchises the state.
Democrats have been trying this forever. I remember Maryland joining this "pact" like a decade ago.
Fact is, GOP controls the legislatures, red states won't do it, purple states won't voluntarily give up their influence in presidential elections. It's the same usual suspect deep-blue states, and has been forever. They need more large states to join, but Florida is not about to give up their relevance, so that California may have more sway. Of course, a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College is a dead-end too. At this point, that Los Angeles Times editorial about having the Supreme Court declare the in-the-Constitution Electoral College unconstitutional seems their most plausible route.
This ABC News article is nothing but a shill promotion piece for this dead-end effort too.
Yeah, I'm sure Ohio and Pennsylvania are just going to cede their say to California. New Mexico too, really.
Any legislator can file a bill. This hardly warrants an article.
Nixing the EC will work for the Dems as long as they feel it is to their advantage. As soon as the tide shifts, they will quickly be talking out the other side of their mouth in favor of it. Liberalism is absolutely a mental disorder.
You have to love the way this headline doesn’t comport with the story. A few elected Democrat state legislators in the few Democrat states remaining want to work around the Electoral Collage.
We don’t want just the big cities to choose the president. The rest of us need a voice too.
This is so absurd. First of all, this is clearly unconstitutional as states cannot enter into this kind of a compact. Second of all, the narrative is absurd as every vote in this country does have equal weight within the elections they take place in. It's embarrassing someone who holds public office doesn't understand basic civics and know their presidential race is not a national election within their individual states. Moreover, this legislator is proposing to take away from her own people their right to vote for their own electors and have their state's electors decided by voters from outside of their state - how absurd is that?
That’ll make their citizens happy....effectively disenfranchises the State.
Nice. Put all the power with the state’s that have the highest vote fraud and let Ca and NY control every presidential election from here on out.
Hillary Clinton flunked out of Electoral College. The founding fathers really knew what they were doing. The USA has been saved once again.
I understand that HRC’s plurality in the recent election is the number of votes by which she won California; if California is successful in its efforts to secede from the Union, CA will not participate in a national election, and the Dems will have to campaign in “fly-over country”, to try to get votes; faced with that daunting prospect, the DNC may reverse course, and say, “well, the Electoral College is a pretty good idea, after all”.
The President Trump DOJ’s arrest of George Soros should slow these radical leftist attacks on our Constitution down DRAMATICALLY.