Once again, these morons think they’re smarter than our Founding Fathers. The only way you can prevent California and New York from deciding our presidential elections is the Electoral College. But, hey, we’re about to seat a Kenyan-born, illegal alien as president, so to hell with the Constitution. Libs know better.
“The only way you can prevent California and New York from deciding our presidential elections is the Electoral College”
Texas has more people than New York, and Florida will surpass New York in 2012. I agree it doesn’t need fixing, and that’s the argument - not the Calif/NY thing.
That deserves Post of the decade if there were ever to be such a thing.
Well said!
I did some playing around with the NY and California numbers. You're shy about 6,762,007 people, based on this year's vote total. Make it California, Texas, and Nevada and that gives you 63,022,977 people, which tops the 62,612,951 votes needed to win this year's popular vote.
Granted, I'm going by population numbers of these 3 states, but it still makes the point that 3 out of 50 states could have given Obama the votes needed to win.
Under the electoral college system, it would take Cali, Texas, NY, Florida, Penn, IL, Ohio, Michigan, GA, NC, and NJ to get to 271. Obama missed that by 2, with Texas and Georgia being the exceptions.
11 out of 50 sounds better to me than 3 out of 50.