Posted on 08/16/2007 5:53:55 AM PDT by xjcsa
So far it's only affected California, but that means it soon may be heading your way, for what begins in California often spreads across the land. Take, for example, auto emissions, clean air standards and talentless Hollywood "celebrities" In this case, it's a new strategy devised by the California Republican Party. Call it the Table Scraps strategy.
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What's wrong with this picture? Two things. It plays directly into the hands of the left-wing movement to ditch the Electoral College altogether, declaring the aggregate winner of the popular vote to be the president. This means that a handful of large cities--voting mostly Democrat--would decide the national outcome.
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The only idea out there worse than this one is embodied in California Senate Bill 37, dreamt up by Sen. Carol Migden, who is better known for having pleaded nolo contendere last week to a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving over a 30-mile stretch of Interstate 80. Her bill, if it became law, would mandate that all of California's electoral votes would be rewarded to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of how Californians had voted. This would turn the Electoral College upside down, which is her purpose. It is a case of myopia, based on left-wing ire over the 2000 Bush-Gore race.
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Again, I agree with your assessment of liberal goals and tactics. This proposal, however, is well within the intent of the EC; a few other states already use the same method (i.e. Nebraska and Maine). I don’t think it’s a step toward abolishing the EC, and I would fight it tooth and nail if it were.
The proposals that tie a state’s electors to the national popular vote are horrid, and undermine the whole concept of the EC. This proposal assigns one elector to the winner of each Congressional district, and two electors to the statewide winner; they are assigned in the same manner in which they are allotted to the state in the first place.
Even a casual student of the French Revolution understands the tyranny of a the mob and the anarchy that resulted. So did our founders.
The Electoral College was established to keep the selection process out of the hands of the rabble. It works. Today in California, it prevents our majority Mexican interlopers from selecting the president of the US.
Here is the so-called “Republican” proposal:
http://ag.ca.gov/cms_pdfs/initiatives/2007-07-17_07-0032_Initiative.pdf
“Perhaps you meant what the Electoral College was suppose to be. With it essentially nominating the candidates and the House of Representatives (voting by states) electing the President from those finalists.”
Sorry I stand corrected. This is what I meant.
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