Posted on 05/20/2010 12:45:37 PM PDT by MaxCUA
Really?
Expect to hear a resurgence of calls for abolishing the EC in favor of a national popular vote. Won't work, though. It'd take a Constitutional amendment and I don't believe they can ram it through in two and a half years.
Found ping...lol.
Thanks!!!
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. Candidates would need to care about voters across the nation, not just undecided voters in a handful of swing states.
The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes—that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for president. The National Popular Vote bill does not try to abolish the Electoral College, which would need a constitutional amendment, and could be stopped by states with as little as 3% of the U.S. population. Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President (for example, ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote) have come about without federal constitutional amendments, by state legislative action.
The bill has been endorsed or voted for by over 1,775 state legislators (in 48 states) who have sponsored and/or cast recorded votes in favor of the bill.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). The recent Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University poll shows 72% support for direct nationwide election of the President. Support for a national popular vote is strong in virtually every state, partisan, and demographic group surveyed in recent polls in closely divided battleground states: Colorado— 68%, Iowa —75%, Michigan— 73%, Missouri— 70%, New Hampshire— 69%, Nevada— 72%, New Mexico— 76%, North Carolina— 74%, Ohio— 70%, Pennsylvania — 78%, Virginia — 74%, and Wisconsin — 71%; in smaller states (3 to 5 electoral votes): Alaska — 70%, DC — 76%, Delaware —75%, Maine — 77%, Nebraska — 74%, New Hampshire —69%, Nevada — 72%, New Mexico — 76%, Rhode Island — 74%, and Vermont — 75%; in Southern and border states: Arkansas —80%, Kentucky — 80%, Mississippi —77%, Missouri — 70%, North Carolina — 74%, and Virginia — 74%; and in other states polled: California — 70%, Connecticut — 74% , Massachusetts — 73%, Minnesota — 75%, New York — 79%, Washington — 77%, and West Virginia- 81%.
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 29 state legislative chambers, in 19 small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon, and both houses in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington. These five states possess 61 electoral votes — 23% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
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JV, love you to pieces.... but I have to disagree with you on this one. If the GOP wants to survive, Palin will be the nominee. I will disavow my membership as a Republican and go independent if she isn’t, and I don’t think I am alone in that either.
Creepy.
Ping!
Do the 2010 changes as a result of the census take effect by the 2012 election?
~~Ping!
IMO, Sarah is the only one who can come close to raising the amount of money that Obama raised and she might be able to surpass him.
But there is a lot of time.
Still, I agree with your assessment that she will not be the nominee, and I still think that we "haven't seen" the nominee yet in a real serious sense. It could be DeMint. But at this point in 2006, Zero was just starting to gather his forces.
Sarah`s detractors forget one thing. Who ever wins the nomination will be demonized by the MSM as a right wing wacko. Lets say Jim Demint, he would be quickly demonized as a right wing extremist.
HI!!!!!! Gotta tell you, I am very impress with her, calls it as she sees it. Now, PLEASE spare us of McCain this election, he deserves his retirement and I thank him for his service but, retire and enjoy the last of his life.
HI again so glad to see you.
Toby
Palin/Cain 2012 or Cain/Palin 2012.
The Killa from Wasilla and the Hermanator.
Unbeatable. I’m just sayin’ :)
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