Posted on 02/07/2007 10:37:01 AM PST by mtairycitizen
Lawmakers hoping to propel Maryland into a more prominent role in presidential campaigns have introduced bills that would award the state's electoral votes to the candidate who wins the most votes nationwide.
The aim is to prevent a repeat of the 2000 presidential election, in which Democratic nominee Al Gore won the popular vote but lost to Republican George W. Bush in the contest for electoral votes.
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The idea of awarding a state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote is being discussed in more than 45 state legislatures this winter and is being promoted in Maryland by a leader of a key House committee.
If adopted by enough states, the change would make the Electoral College meaningless without amending the Constitution.
Critics of the idea - thought up by a Stanford University computer scientist - contend that bypassing the Electoral College could increase the influence of third parties and shift the focus of campaigns to large cities at the expense of rural areas.
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Why are liberal states so for this plan? They are watering down their own votes. MD also goes for Dems big in national elections.
The article mentions that the Electoral College is a constitutional crises waiting to happen.
It's a REPUBLIC not a DEMOCRACY. Morons.......
--because with the illegal alien and ignorant female vote, it guarantees the Demotraitors control of the federal government forever--
So don't bother to vote Marylanders, just say me too and go along with New York, California and Florida.
Because it facilitates 'RAT vote fraud.
Doesn't that make the voters of Maryland.... practically MEANINGLESS?
They can see the handwriting on the wall, with millions upon millions of illegals coming into the USA. And of course, those illegals are going to vote Dumbocrat.
Yeah, good luck on that one....
Searching for relevance... maybe they should go back to trying to punish Walmart and keeping other successful businesses out of their state. That will teach'em!
Any state that does this is committing political suicide. But I don't suppose that will stop them if they think it's the best way to steal national elections.
"If adopted by enough states, the change would make the Electoral College meaningless without amending the Constitution." Typical liberal thinking.
Or blaming Ehrlich for the energy fiasco created by legislature years before he was elected.
So..if the one who gets the most votes happens to be a republican, all you dems in Maryland are cool with you electors voting for that republican? Somehow I doubt that.
Typical democRAT thinking, if it feels good, do it.
I was thinking that the proponents of this bill are too stupid to see what the real effect would be.
They will "NOT" be allowed to turn this nation into MOBACRATIC NATION.
KEEP the people ignorant and this is what takes place.
Exactly! There is no way if a Republican wins the majority across the country, but not in Maryland, and Maryland is the deciding vote, that they will go with the Republican.
They'll use it only when it favors a Democrat.
OUTRAGE!
These are the same !$#$holes who wonder why the Eastern Shore proposed seceeding from the MD "union". BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET THEIR WAY WITH THE MERE POPULAR VOTE in the People's Republic of MD Driven by Huge Liberal Central Population. (And Western MD wouldn't be too far away from it either.)
THAT is why the Founders in their god-ordained wisdom created this - to offset constant "majority rule"!
While Maryland is at it, maybe they would like to give one of their two US Senate seats to a state with a larger population also. After all it's only fair.
Value of an individual vote under the Electoral College relative to a vote using Direct Election:
|
State |
ECV/DEV |
|
Alabama |
103% |
|
Alaska |
228% |
|
Arizona |
102% |
|
Arkansas |
116% |
|
California |
85% |
|
Colorado |
107% |
|
Connecticut |
112% |
|
Delaware |
199% |
|
D.C. |
301% |
|
Florida |
88% |
|
Georgia |
95% |
|
Hawaii |
158% |
|
Idaho |
144% |
|
Illinois |
91% |
|
Indiana |
94% |
|
Iowa |
127% |
|
Kansas |
116% |
|
Kentucky |
104% |
|
Louisiana |
105% |
|
Maine |
165% |
|
Maryland |
97% |
|
Massachusetts |
101% |
|
Michigan |
93% |
|
Minnesota |
106% |
|
Mississippi |
110% |
|
Missouri |
102% |
|
Montana |
159% |
|
Nebraska |
151% |
|
Nevada |
128% |
|
New Hampshire |
166% |
|
New Jersey |
95% |
|
New Mexico |
132% |
|
New York |
90% |
|
North Carolina |
97% |
|
North Dakota |
236% |
|
Ohio |
93% |
|
Oklahoma |
107% |
|
Oregon |
103% |
|
Pennsylvania |
91% |
|
Rhode Island |
210% |
|
South Carolina |
105% |
|
South Dakota |
197% |
|
Tennessee |
98% |
|
Texas |
84% |
|
Utah |
110% |
|
Vermont |
250% |
|
Virginia |
94% |
|
Washington |
93% |
|
West Virginia |
144% |
|
Wisconsin |
97% |
|
Wyoming |
281% |
Huh? Algore got MD's electoral votes in 2000. If this bill had been in place in 2004, MD's electoral votes would have gone to George W. Bush even though the state voted for Jon Carry.
This is actually pretty funny.
If 45 states decided to simply wait on the votes from the other states - WE WILL BE RULED BY 5 STATES!
What a bunch of freakin' communist moronic JERKS.
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