Surprisingly, Republicans and Conservatives Shouldn’t Fear a National Popular Vote

Townhall.com ^ | Dec 11, 2017 | Rachel Alexander

[IrishBrigade]

‘What part of this eludes you?’

sheesh, grab some milk and cookies and chill out, or maybe take a nap...the article addressed the National Popular Vote Plan, and since you posted on this thread, I assumed you understood what the author was talking about...

if there is an effort to do away with the EC, it would require a Constitutional amendment; short of that, it cannot be done...the NPV discussed in the article does not remove the EC; I can’t imagine what eludes you about that...and since it doesn’t even get put up for passage until the participating states total 270 EC’s, it is completely moot at this point in time, as currently only states totalling 165 EV’s have bicamerally passed the compact, and other states totalling 82 EV’s have had it passed by one house but not the other...82 and 165 totals 247, still short of the passage threshold, and thus the NPV is moot...and really, all it’s designed to do is remove the discrepancy of the EC and popular votes being different; the winner still needs 270 to win...now, if there’s some other plan you know of purporting to remove the EC, please enlighten me...

[DoughtyOne]

So what you are saying is that you jumped in with both feet having no clue what I was addressing, and are still trying to correct me despite my clarification for you.

Is that about it? Well,... yes it is.

If I’m addressing a complete abandonment of the Electoral College, and I made that perfectly clear I was, why are you still talking to me?

I don’t have to address the plan at the top of the thread.

I do not want to abandon the Electoral College. PERIOD!

If you agree with that, fine. If you don’t, I could care less.

[IrishBrigade]

‘I don’t have to address the plan at the top of the thread.’

silly me for thinking someone responding to a topic on a thread would direct his commentary to that topic...

‘I do not want to abandon the Electoral College.’

fine, it’s not going anywhere without an amendment...can’t imagine why you brought the topic up, as it can’t possibly happen in our current system...

[DoughtyOne]

My choices were to address what I did here on this thread that was loosely topical to the issue, or start a new thread addressing solely this issue.

I chose to make a comment on it here.

To this point, you still can’t get over it.

This has been topical in the media from time to time. Groups on television discuss it around general election time.

You can’t figure out why I might address it. LOL

Because guys like Barack Obama do get elected.

Wait, you did know he was elected right?

[IrishBrigade]

‘Wait, you did know he was elected right?’

piece of advice, leave the snark to the pros on this forum...

[Rebelbase]

The purpose of the National Popular Vote bill is to make every voter in every state politically relevant in every presidential election

[DoughtyOne]

Lets see, how to respond to a guy it took being told very clearly three or four times to grasp that I was not talking about the original topic on this thread.

Then when you finally did, after trying to insult me all the way along, you again tried to act like it was my fault because I didn’t stick to the original topic.

It’s none of your business what I choose to address. You can either exchange thoughts on the issue I raised, or you can move on to another post that interests you.

If you do address my comments, try to up your game.

Now you’re back to try to grasp some high ground as if you could at this point.

Go slink off and lick your wounds idiot stick.