Posted on 05/16/2014 9:33:46 PM PDT by Ray76
With little fanfare and nearly no national media attention, the National Popular Vote effort is now 61 percent of the way toward its goal of legally bypassing the Electoral College established in the U.S. Constitution.
The NPV campaign seeks to obtain the consent of the majority of the 538 votes in the Electoral College to award electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote instead of the winner of the popular vote in each state.
The group, the Center for Voting and Democracy, received original seed money in 1997 from the Joyce Foundation, a nonprofit that boasted President Obama served on its board at the time of the grant. Obama was a board member from July 1994 until December 2002.
The NPV is run by individuals with a history of support for the Democratic Party, KleinOnline found.
It is partnered with FairVote, a project of the Soros-funded Center for Voting and Democracy that advocates for a national popular vote for president.
Soros’ Open Society Institute funds the Center for Voting and Democracy, where FairVote is based.
The center’s website notes the group was kick-started in 1997 with two grants – one from the Open Society and another from the Joyce Foundation.
With Obama on its board, the Joyce Foundation also funded the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation; the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute; the National Council of La Raza and Physicians for Social Responsibility, among numerous radical groups.
Meanwhile, the NPV leadership is comprised of Democratic Party supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at kleinonline.wnd.com ...
If the elites behind this thought it would help TEA Party candidates, the effort would instantly come to a halt.
Communism advances.
Presidential Election Popular Votes 1940-2012
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/common/pop_vote.html
Considering the amount of ire for the Dems by the public, what happens when conservative Pubbies (or even GOP-E) win the popular vote?
What will they do then? Go back to the electoral college?
That is an interesting table.
Demorats are counting on influx of welfare seeking 3rd world immigrants to make them a permanent majority.
AND .. IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED .. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE DEMS WANT AMNESTY .. THEY WILL NEED ALL THOSE VOTES IN ORDER TO WIN THE ELECTION IN 2016.
IF THEY MANAGE TO PULL IT OFF .. IT WILL FINISH THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA.
OR .... IT WILL START A CIVIL WAR (WHICH IS WHAT I THINK OBAMA WANTS); HE WILL DECLARE MARTIAL LAW AND ALL GOVT WILL BE SUSPENDED.
AMERICA BETTER WAKE UP .. WE’RE ALMOST OUT OF TIME.
Do those that advocate the popular vote scheme expect conservative states to just accept it without contemplation of separation?
The NPV is an underhanded assault calculated to obviate a Constitutional provision
We’re about two elections away from a Mexican president. Sometimes I’m glad I’m old....
Although I am much younger than you, I’m glad to be old enough that when this is complete, I will probably be dead as well.
Why are these states so quick to yield their sovereignty?
AND .. IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED .. THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE DEMS WANT AMNESTY .. THEY WILL NEED ALL THOSE VOTES IN ORDER TO WIN THE ELECTION IN 2016.
IF THEY MANAGE TO PULL IT OFF .. IT WILL FINISH THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA.
All I have to say is when you are right you are right.
So they still have not forgiven Republicans for not letting Gore steal the election in 2000.
Many constitutional scholars find that the NPV Compact probably is unconstitutional. Here are some links:
http://jurist.org/forum/2012/02/william-ross-vote-compact.php
Basically, the arguments against the NPV are that it violates the Compact Clause of the Constitution, it may violate the Voting Rights Act, and it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
the winners are big population centers and losers are medium and small states.
in essence it makes all states losers except for about six.
Having a partisan president select a partisan head of the Justice Department means the executive branch can get away with just about anything, the 2/3rds of the Senate conviction standard being a very high bar.
In the run up to the 2000 election the democrats were crying that if Bush won the popular vote it wouldn’t matter as long as Gore won the electoral vote. Well, the opposite happened and they changed their tune.
If anything, they are doing the Right a favor by painting themselves as targets when action needs to be taken.
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