[Obadiah]

Although naturally framed as a GOP ploy by AP, this makes sense and is based upon the idea of the Electoral College itself.

Why should cities like Madison, Chicago, Detroit, New York City and Philadelphia, et. al., have the luxury of carrying a disproportional weight and carrying an entire state to the exclusion of the entire rest of the state?

[Monorprise]

“Although naturally framed as a GOP ploy by AP, this makes sense and is based upon the idea of the Electoral College itself.

Why should cities like Madison, Chicago, Detroit, New York City and Philadelphia, et. al., have the luxury of carrying a disproportional weight and carrying an entire state to the exclusion of the entire rest of the state?”

Thanks to the usurper Federal employees in black robes back in the 1960’s who abolished the States republican form of Government with their senate. Theses urban machines also control the state to the execution of the rights and liberties of everyone else.

Still going to a popular vote will allow theses same handful of corrupt urban machines to dominate Federal politics as well.

You have any idea the extent to which theses corrupt urban machine managed to squelch republican votes and inflate their own?

There is a dam good reason the popular vote is not the way we elect presidents. It is full of fraud!

[cripplecreek]

this makes sense and is based upon the idea of the Electoral College itself.

Exactly and people would have recognized it prior to the passage of the 17th anti constitutional amendment. Its called representative government.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Although naturally framed as a GOP ploy by AP, this makes sense and is based upon the idea of the Electoral College itself.

The problem (and the reason it is able to be easily framed as a GOP ploy) is that the GOP is ONLY considering making this change in states that have trended Democratic in Presidential elections. No solid (or even marginal) red states are considering this. That makes this look like a transparently partisan move.