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California Assembly approves electoral vote change
AP via SFGate ^
| 5/19/11
Posted on 05/19/2011 6:11:55 PM PDT by SmithL
Lawmakers have taken a step to make California more relevant in presidential politics, voting to give the state's electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
The state Assembly passed AB459 on Thursday on a 43-18 vote, sending it to the state Senate. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: ab459; california; electoralcollege; electoralvote; electoralvotes; goldenstate; idiocy; lunacy; mobrule; nationalpopularvote
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:12:00 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
For those in less liberal Northern California... your vote just became obsolete...
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:13:47 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: SmithL
I don’t understand why California would do this. Their EVs will almost always go to a Democrat. This makes it possible for a Republican to win them all. It makes no sense, since California is completely dominated by Democrats.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:14:01 PM PDT
by
RightFighter
(Now back to my war station.)
To: SmithL
If I read thiis right the democrats gave the GOP some votes.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:14:30 PM PDT
by
scooby321
To: RightFighter
We are such dorks here in CA....pathetic.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:15:02 PM PDT
by
glasseye
To: SmithL
To: SmithL
The effort started after Al Gore won the popular vote in 2004, but George W. Bush won the electoral vote.GROSS CONCEPTUAL ERROR. Freaking morons.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:16:28 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:17:59 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
To: SmithL
More and more like Europe everyday.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:18:01 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: SmithL
This is a good thing. Cali hasn’t gone Republican for a long time, so it doesn’t hurt our side at all. Woo Hoo!
To: SmithL
Lawmakers have taken a step to make California more less relevant in presidential politics Fixed it.
To: SmithL
This is a huge threat to our freedom. The left-wing will manipulate the vote in every election under a system of the popular vote.
Out of all of the very difficult issues we all have to deal with this one is possibily the most dangerous. This is a straight forward effort by socialists to undermine the electoral process and rig elections.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:19:55 PM PDT
by
TheBigIf
To: RightFighter
What they're not saying is that they have a time machine they got on the Internet. They are going to go back to November 2000.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:20:25 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
To: SmithL
"Lawmakers have taken a step to make California
more less relevant in presidential politics."
There, Fixed it. With CA's electors chosen by the popular vote in the entire country, then candidates will not care about issues specific to CA.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:22:31 PM PDT
by
tpmintx
(Liberalism=Envy, backed by Governmental authority. [I'm green; are you?])
To: RightFighter
Typical lib stepping on their own crank. They just put CA in play for the GOP. There’s no need for the GOP pres candidate in CA, all she or he has to do is do well in the other states and CA’s electoral votes will give the GOP the WH.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:22:58 PM PDT
by
Lou Budvis
(Refudiate 0bama '12)
To: SmithL
Maryland did this a few years ago and the ignorant citizens have no idea what they lost. A vote in Maryland used to be worth 1 out of 1.5 million votes to determine 10 Electoral college votes. Their vote is now valued at 1 out of 120+ million.
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:23:22 PM PDT
by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:23:36 PM PDT
by
TSgt
("Some folks just need killin'" - Sling Blade (2006))
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:24:55 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
To: Jeff Chandler
2004? When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:24:55 PM PDT
by
tpmintx
(Liberalism=Envy, backed by Governmental authority. [I'm green; are you?])
To: SmithL
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posted on
05/19/2011 6:26:36 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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