Maryland is a solid blue state whose state house approved a bill that would give its electorial votes to the popular vote winner.
What an asinine Bill. Talk about a bunch of elitist yahoos who think they can come up with a better method than the Founding Fathers. Oh wait, they don't want a better method, they simply want one that guarantees Democrat power forever. Giving the state's votes to the NATIONAL popular vote getter simply removes state power from the process and removes ALL of the representation of that state.
The Democrat Party in its current configuration is an enemy of this country.
I don't understand how this gives power to the Dems "forever". Since it is mostly DEM stronghold states doing this, the Lefties can only
lose EV's.
Even if the traditionally GOP states did this, I don't see huge losses of EVs for the GOP (at least, not as large as the DEM's losses), since there are usually more rural and suburban districts than urban districts in any given state. We all have seen the maps showing how the districts went in 2000... it was 228 to 207 for GWB, a comfortable 5% lead, despite the close popular vote tally difference that was about one-tenth that size (0.5%).
If anything, I would have guessed that this idea would've been promoted by the Stupid Party, not the Evil Party. Maybe they're getting stupider, too. We may have to change our name.