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Trump and GOP leaders push to change Nebraska electoral votes to winner-take-all
NBC News ^ | 4/3/24 | Ben Kamisar, Bridget Bowman and Allan Smith

Posted on 04/03/2024 2:09:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff

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To: Steven Scharf

Those 7 “districts” are the 7 states which do not have districts because they only have 1 representative. So add MT, ND, SD, AK and WY to the number of Republican districts and add DE and VT to the Rats. Also DC.


21 posted on 04/03/2024 6:54:51 PM PDT by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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Source: Citizen Free Press

Pro-life Democrat, a Nebraska state senator, punished by Democrats for being pro-life, switches to Republican party, giving Republicans 33 senators and a filibuster-proof majority.

This will be incredibly important to Trump in the coming battle to fix the Nebraska electoral college quirk, that could win the election for Trump.

Nebraska’s unicameral legislature now has a filibuster proof Republican majority as Sen. Mike McDonnell switches parties from Dem to Rep.

This has massive implications for passing LB764, which would switch Nebraska to a winner-take-all electoral college state and BLOCK Joe Biden’s easiest path to the presidency.


McDonnell Switches Parties Statement

State Sen. Mike McDonnell tells NCN, “Today I am changing my party affiliation to Republican,” adding the Democratic Party has “decided to punish me for being Pro-Life.” So far no word on his future political


22 posted on 04/04/2024 12:14:53 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: FreeReign

I think you misunderstood what I am saying. Awarding electoral votes by congressional district would do a multitude of things.
1) It gives more people a vote that actually counts. When it comes to presidential elections, only the votes in less than a dozen states matter. Congressional district awarding, would give the vast majority of Americans a say so in voting for president.
2) It would force candidates to campaign everywhere, because every district would count, of course many are solid red or blue, but many more places would see some candidates pass their way. For instance, the dems start with 52 EV for CA before the voting even begins, even though there are 11 republican districts. The R candidate would at least get 11 EV from CA and those peoples votes would actually count.
3) The biggest reason is the elimination of fraud for a generation, because the effect of massed dem votes in cities of every state would only effect the congressional district of that city, not the whole freaking state.

True, the EV count and states not the people actually picking the president is constitutional, it apparently isn’t enforceable as Maine and Nebraska don’t do it. Congressional district EV awarding would actually improve on the intent of the founders when writing our constitutional process for electing a president.
It also would spread the advertising dollars around so that much of America would see political advertising and the same few places that always get unindated with advertising blitzes would get a break. And don’t anyone say they don’t like political advertising, if you didn’t like it they wouldn’t do it. It works. They got the millions you don’t. Think about that.
In 94 and to a lessor extent in 2010, Republicans had a trifecta in WI, MI, IN, OH, PA, NY, NJ, IL. They could have changed their states to EV awarding by congressional district, but they didn’t because they are genetically mutantly fundamentally hopelessly retarded!.
As a member of the state committee of PA, I heard with my own ears the retarded bloviating idiot GOP chairman say, “we have never done it that way before” “that would diminish our states clout” in the presidential election. IOW, they would rather lose the state and the presidency as long as the politicians keep stroking there egos and keep coming to woo them every 4 years.
Your comment “If the republicans controlled a state” the did in the rust belt, but the rest belt always votes dem because of them running up the vote in the cities. The dems would still get the 2 for the senators / popular vote.
Remember GW only won the presidency by 2 votes. He needed 23 EV to beat Gore and FL had 25 at the time. If GW had not won NH, the FL recount would not have happened cause he would have already lost. Every EV vote matters and they should not just a hand full of states.


23 posted on 04/04/2024 9:39:58 AM PDT by pghbjugop
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To: FreeReign

I think you misunderstood what I am saying. Awarding electoral votes by congressional district would do a multitude of things.
1) It gives more people a vote that actually counts. When it comes to presidential elections, only the votes in less than a dozen states matter. Congressional district awarding, would give the vast majority of Americans a say so in voting for president.
2) It would force candidates to campaign everywhere, because every district would count, of course many are solid red or blue, but many more places would see some candidates pass their way. For instance, the dems start with 52 EV for CA before the voting even begins, even though there are 11 republican districts. The R candidate would at least get 11 EV from CA and those peoples votes would actually count.
3) The biggest reason is the elimination of fraud for a generation, because the effect of massed dem votes in cities of every state would only effect the congressional district of that city, not the whole freaking state.

True, the EV count and states not the people actually picking the president is constitutional, it apparently isn’t enforceable as Maine and Nebraska don’t do it. Congressional district EV awarding would actually improve on the intent of the founders when writing our constitutional process for electing a president.
It also would spread the advertising dollars around so that much of America would see political advertising and the same few places that always get unindated with advertising blitzes would get a break. And don’t anyone say they don’t like political advertising, if you didn’t like it they wouldn’t do it. It works. They got the millions you don’t. Think about that.
In 94 and to a lessor extent in 2010, Republicans had a trifecta in WI, MI, IN, OH, PA, NY, NJ, IL. They could have changed their states to EV awarding by congressional district, but they didn’t because they are genetically mutantly fundamentally hopelessly retarded!.
As a member of the state committee of PA, I heard with my own ears the retarded bloviating idiot GOP chairman say, “we have never done it that way before” “that would diminish our states clout” in the presidential election. IOW, they would rather lose the state and the presidency as long as the politicians keep stroking there egos and keep coming to woo them every 4 years.
Your comment “If the republicans controlled a state” the did in the rust belt, but the rest belt always votes dem because of them running up the vote in the cities. The dems would still get the 2 for the senators / popular vote.
Remember GW only won the presidency by 2 votes. He needed 23 EV to beat Gore and FL had 25 at the time. If GW had not won NH, the FL recount would not have happened cause he would have already lost. Every EV vote matters and they should not just a hand full of states.

In addition, the R’s always win a majority of the states, 30+ so they would get the 2 EV for each state won with the popular vote. So even in years where they don’t win congress, they would still come out on top, assuming every CD goes for the same party for Congress and Prez. Again, this is how you improve on the constitution. Actually giving people more power and protecting them from mob rule of the simple popular vote.
You all know darn well if the shoe was on the other foot, the Dems would have already done this, but we can’t expect any common sense from the Retardican party.


24 posted on 04/04/2024 9:45:48 AM PDT by pghbjugop
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To: PermaRag

The chart does not take into account the awarding of 2 EV for the popular vote of each state. Since the R’s win the majority of the states, usually 30+ that would make the difference.
Again, this would actually make it more constitutional and more to the framers intent, (if you can say). Unlike the opposite mob rule control of a popular vote that the dems want. The majority of Americans would actually have a vote that counts but yet still be protected from the mass hoards of city voters. Small states with small population still get a vote plus the 2 EV (for the senators so to say) and the large populations still get a voice too.
Eliminating vote fraud for a generation is still the biggest plus to the whole deal.


25 posted on 04/04/2024 9:54:20 AM PDT by pghbjugop
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