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How to siphon votes away from blue states
Washington Post ^
| December 11, 2012
| Brad Plumer
Posted on 12/16/2012 7:51:50 PM PST by neverdem
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posted on
12/16/2012 7:51:55 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
I have an answer. Pull the spark plugs from all the school buses!
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posted on
12/16/2012 7:53:38 PM PST
by
WVKayaker
("Hang in there, America. Fight for what is right." - Sarah Palin 11/7/12)
To: neverdem
I'm for it and it doesn't require screwing with the constitution.
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posted on
12/16/2012 7:54:52 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: neverdem
The major urban areas have declared war on “flyover country”, there is no doubt remaining.
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posted on
12/16/2012 7:58:46 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:01:49 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
If so, then seige warfare is in order, vastly reduce the amount of food shipped to the cities.
Sit back and watch Social Darwinism at its finest.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:04:08 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(Fed up with zealots)
To: cripplecreek
After every presidential it seems members of the losing party propose some change to the electoral college.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:04:18 PM PST
by
monocle
To: cripplecreek
After every presidential it seems members of the losing party propose some change to the electoral college.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:04:18 PM PST
by
monocle
To: neverdem
I think it would need to be two votes for the most votes in the state, not for the most congressional districts won. Obviously, each state is allowed to set up their electoral system as they choose, but I can't see them going with congressional districts for the state's two "Senate" votes.
My main concern with this system would be the application of recounts in the event of a close (or maybe not so close) election. Seem a candidate could select dozens of favorable districts with which to request a recount from, across many states. I'm sure the various voter fraud machines and the lawyers would be thrilled with this aspect of the change if it were done nationwide.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:08:02 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: neverdem
I believe after this last election all of California’s electoral votes go to whomever wins the nationwide popular vote.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:09:41 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
To: neverdem
Sounds reasonable and right.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:10:22 PM PST
by
gitmo
( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
To: neverdem
And the 17th Amendment must be abolished as well as others from that dark period in America known as the so-called “progressive” era. The reality is that those laws were actually regressive, destroying what the enlightened Founding Fathers had put into place.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:13:10 PM PST
by
re_nortex
(DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
To: neverdem
Check this out:
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
Personally I don’t believe their polls. They claim that in my state, SC, 71% want popular vote. No way!
Polling was done by Public Policy Polling, a RAT outfit. Go figure.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:39:39 PM PST
by
upchuck
(America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
To: neverdem
This would be a temporary fix at best.
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posted on
12/16/2012 8:46:08 PM PST
by
youngidiot
(God help us.)
To: txnativegop
After Sandy, civilization lasted all of 3 days in NJ, and I live in a solid GOP bastion. Everyone could stay warm and fed for a few days but the surprise was that there was barely any gas. I knew to fill up right before storm hit, but not everyone was as prepared. Few guns were drawn at gas station lines. Again, we are not talking Newark or Camden, but solid Red county.
Point being, it wouldn't even take a week for total anarchy and a month for 90% casualties in urban areas
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posted on
12/16/2012 9:08:22 PM PST
by
MattinNJ
(Col. West in 2016!!!!!!!!)
To: txnativegop
After Sandy, civilization lasted all of 3 days in NJ, and I live in a solid GOP bastion. Everyone could stay warm and fed for a few days but the surprise was that there was barely any gas. I knew to fill up right before storm hit, but not everyone was as prepared. Few guns were drawn at gas station lines. Again, we are not talking Newark or Camden, but solid Red county.
Point being, it wouldn't even take a week for total anarchy and a month for 90% casualties in urban areas
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posted on
12/16/2012 9:08:22 PM PST
by
MattinNJ
(Col. West in 2016!!!!!!!!)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I think that was done in 2010. It’s immaterial. It only takes effect when enough states have signed the compact to ‘give’ the White House to the national popular vote winner. It had not happened yet. Perhaps it has now and I missed that news.
To: upchuck
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posted on
12/16/2012 9:23:16 PM PST
by
neverdem
( Xin loi min oi)
To: WVKayaker
I have an answer. Pull the spark plugs from all the school buses!Most school buses have diesel engines.
:^(
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posted on
12/16/2012 9:28:56 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(America chose...poorly.)
To: MattinNJ
Point being, it wouldn't even take a week for total anarchy and a month for 90% casualties in urban areas Essentially proving everything I ever thought about cities. You have no idea how much that warms the cockles of my heart...whatever cockles are.
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posted on
12/16/2012 9:32:32 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
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