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To: neverdem
They have a scheme of states pledging their electoral votes according to the winner of the national popular vote

If they ever pull that off, we can finally dispense with the obsolete notion that these are states (where the fedgov is the servant of the states) -- let's just acknowledge reality by calling them provinces (where the states are the servants of the fedgov).

19 posted on 12/21/2010 1:10:05 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
"They have a scheme of states pledging their electoral votes according to the winner of the national popular vote."

That will last until the first time that a Republican wins the national popular vote. Then we will be able to watch them squirm to find reasons that they can't do that.

25 posted on 12/21/2010 1:14:31 PM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

The National Popular Vote bill concerns how votes are tallied, not how much power state governments possess relative to the national government. The powers of state governments are neither increased nor decreased based on whether presidential electors are selected along the state boundary lines, along district lines (as has been the case in Maine and Nebraska), or national lines.


54 posted on 12/21/2010 3:44:24 PM PST by mvymvy
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