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To: TribalPrincess2U

“I foresee the blue states having 3 times more people voting in a state then actually live there.”

that’s why we have the Electoral College. And that’s why the Dems are desperate to trash that American institution as well.


33 posted on 05/18/2011 6:58:00 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: mo
At FA: Under this scheme, state legislatures would pass legislation that would bind them to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote—even if the candidate that got the most votes nationally did not carry that individual state. In short, this would be a de facto popular vote for President—and done without amending the Constitution.

So far, seven states and the District of Columbia (with a combined 77 electoral votes) have enacted laws that do precisely this. Should similar laws be enacted in states with an additional 193 electoral votes, de facto popular election of the President will be achieved.

The California legislature, firmly in Democratic hands, was poised to pass similar legislation this week, but with opponents raising fierce objections, the vote was delayed. In Delaware, newly elected state GOP Chairman John Sigler told us, “Liberal Democrats in the state legislature have offered HB 55, and all the Republicans are against it. Republicans here are strongly opposed because it would repeal the Electoral College by implication. And in basically writing off many states, rural areas, and people, it would lead to rule by tyranny.”

We must fight this with everything we have.

Keep the Electoral College, voters will be disenfranchised

35 posted on 05/18/2011 7:39:16 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO and the Fleebaggers.)
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