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To: Bubba_Leroy

10 Dem states passed National Popular Vote Interstate Compact


26 posted on 01/26/2017 9:26:24 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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10 Dem states passed National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

It is an obviously unconstitutional attempt to circumvent the clear and unambiguous provisions of the Article II and the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.

As a practical matter, it would be beyond stupid for most of the lower population, rural states to go along with it. Some far left-wing Democrat controlled rural states are jumping on the bandwagon, but they are basically voting to turn over their citizens' right to have any say in the Presidential election, so that the large urban areas can do it for them. Plus, under Article I of the Constitution, Congress would also have to go along with any interstate compact.

So far, the 10 states that have signed up total about 165 electoral votes. Most of those electoral votes (118 out of the 165) come from the four states that would benefit most and end up picking all future Presidents, California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey.

Texas, Florida and enough other Republican majority states that add up to 270 electoral votes need to enter into a competing compact, agreeing to never agree to the Democrats' 270 compact. That would quickly end this stupidity.

39 posted on 01/26/2017 9:44:43 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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