Michigan Political Points: Electoral college debate returns ahead of 2016 presidential race

Mlive.com ^ | March 14, 2015 | Jonathan Oosting

[cripplecreek]

Yeah. Our founders never intended the largest cities to pick our presidents any more than they wanted the largest states to pick our presidents.

[SoFloFreeper]

I don’t have to.

[The_Reader_David]

Every state with a GOP controlled state legislature that went for Obama twice and the ‘Rat in either Bush election should be switching to the “Nebraska” system, and maybe those that just went for Obama twice as well.

The proposal is absurd in a way because joining the left’s subversion of the Electoral College (the “national popular vote compact”) and doing the sensible thing in the meantime is quite frankly bizarre — “Hey, let’s let the big cities nationwide pick our Presidents, but in the meantime let’s dilute the influence of the big cities in our own state” — it really makes no sense at all.

[OneWingedShark]

You’re the one claiming he would be different than Obama; given that Obama’s actions stem from an adherence to statism, I fail to see how a statist in the same position would be distinctly different.

[Mrs. P]

Has anyone thought of rigging the Republican primary so only Republicans vote in it?

Just a thought. I’m tired of our candidate being chosen by the Democrat machine who sends out their union minions with instructions on who to vote for in the Republican primary.

[cripplecreek]

We’re better off now but not perfect because we can only vote 1 way on a primary ballot.

Its fine in elections where the democrats have contested races of their own but if they’ve got candidates without challengers they can play GOP in the primaries.

[SoFloFreeper]

I understand and agree that you fail to see the difference between Obama and Romney. I refuse to engage in sophistry.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: a National Popular Vote compact. If enough states sign on, each would award their electoral votes to the winner ::

Provided, of course, the pact is FIRST ratified by the Congress of the United States and there-after survives all SCOTUS challenges.

IOW, ain’t gonna happen in our lifetime. And, I believe that Snyder can veto such a pact, which I suspect he would.

[Theodore R.]

I’d like to see it done in MN, WI, MI, OH, PA, FL, and even IL. Don’t know if it would matter in CA

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek.

Dave Hildenbrand... tie-barred his bill to another from Sen. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, that would see Michigan join a National Popular Vote compact. If enough states sign on, each would award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.

Getting the four biggest states into the SPV, or better yet, getting NY and CA into it, would be a disaster for the Dim-o-crats, because in those larger states which are heavily blue, red turnout is normally depressed; there would be a greater incentive for red voters to show up there and everywhere, knowing they can drag the blue states kicking and screaming into a Republican White House. That assumes, of course, that they'll follow their own law when they lose (which will be often).

AFAIC, I don't give a damn about the Electoral College "reform" or the EC itself -- I want Voter ID, and the elimination and prohibition of same-day registration at the polls until Voter ID is in place everywhere.