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Naked Leftist power grab. Get rid of that annoying electoral college that protects the smaller states from the Left's fascistic bullying.
1 posted on 07/08/2008 1:36:34 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

Title is wrong. Should read:
“Assachusetts Presidential Voting System Could Be Changed!!!!”


2 posted on 07/08/2008 1:41:26 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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While this is not an obvious Second Amendment bill, it could have a serious impact as it could change who will be appointing future Supreme Court Justices.

Huh?

3 posted on 07/08/2008 1:42:30 PM PDT by rhombus
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So Mass would rather give up the power of it’s electoral votes so that LA, NY and Chicago can decide every election. lol

Idiots.


4 posted on 07/08/2008 1:42:51 PM PDT by Slapshot68
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I’m all for it. Let the liberals do this and watch the rest of America revolt and finally get rid of the commie states. I welcome a new civil war so that cleansing can occur.


5 posted on 07/08/2008 1:43:28 PM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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In other words, vote away your own state’s independence.


6 posted on 07/08/2008 1:44:00 PM PDT by rhombus
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Sheesh. Is there any part of the Constitution that the Rabid Left DOESN'T want to toss out? I detest these rabble-rousing Fascists.
7 posted on 07/08/2008 1:44:52 PM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: pabianice

Apparently Chief Judge Margaret Marshall (and the her
New York Times’ husband and Master) have decided to
use the General Court to overturn the US Constitution.. again.


8 posted on 07/08/2008 1:45:21 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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slapshot68 said, “...I welcome a new civil war so that cleansing can occur.”

Years ago, I jokingly stated that someday this would happen, thanks to the left. I’m not joking anymore...and neither is slapshot. I wouldn’t start one...but if they do......


9 posted on 07/08/2008 1:49:42 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Is MA alone going to do this? If so, MA would have gone for Bush last election, as he won the popular vote.


10 posted on 07/08/2008 1:50:05 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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In 2000, the difference between the top two candidates was 0.51% of the vote. That would have required waiting another week for all absentee ballots to arrive and then a full county by county national recount.


11 posted on 07/08/2008 1:50:23 PM PDT by weegee (Maybe 143 days wasnÂ’t enough experience.)
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A state as small as Massachusetts doesn’t deserve 2 senators and Rhode Island shouldn’t have any. < /s >


12 posted on 07/08/2008 1:51:28 PM PDT by weegee (Maybe 143 days wasnÂ’t enough experience.)
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A constitutional amendment is required to change the Federal electoral system for President/Vice President. To do that requires 3/4 majorities in both houses of Congress and concurrance by 3/4 of the states. Since the Republicans and the small states don’t like it, getting it out of Congress would be a trick. Ditto for getting it passed in the state legislatures. Not going to happen anytime soon, if ever.

Democrats: the party of endless talk about useless ideas.


15 posted on 07/08/2008 1:59:02 PM PDT by Captain Rhino ( If we have the WILL to do it, there is nothing built in China that we cannot do without.)
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LOL! This goes through and McCain wins the popular vote, Massachusetts is going to throw it’s electoral votes to him?


18 posted on 07/08/2008 2:07:23 PM PDT by AU72
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I’m from MA, the home of the original gay state with unelected judges making laws, a legislature more interested in being the governor, and a governor who spends more time out of state to know where he lives. Then they have the gall to increase taxes and fares to pay for union workers (MBTA) health care (presently either no copay, or about to become 10%). MA, the birth of the Revolution, and and the death of Government by and of, for the people. (Our petition to vote on same sex marriage was shut down by the cowards in the legislature.)

Now, they want to give up their power of having a say in how the president is elected. I’m not surprised by this action since the Liberal/fascist mind is power by appointment and not the voters. I’m sure it will be challenged and hopefully be struck down as being unconstitutional (Federal).


23 posted on 07/08/2008 2:36:40 PM PDT by Howindependent
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Sounds like a good lawsuit challenge. I would argue that allowing people from other states to determine how the electoral college votes of my state are placed abridges my privileges and violates my 14th Amendment rights of equal treatment and protection under the law.


28 posted on 07/08/2008 3:01:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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I don’t care if 13 liberal states want to elect their president that way. As long as these voters remove themselves, along with their president, from the geographical boundaries of the United States, they are free to do as they wish.

North Korea might be a nice setting for their new utopian settlement.


31 posted on 07/08/2008 4:05:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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Leftists love this bacause they know they have the populations fooled in the cities. The rural folks won’t even matter pretty soon. No one will even have to talk to them, or me.


32 posted on 07/08/2008 5:36:53 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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PING


37 posted on 07/09/2008 6:50:00 AM PDT by JZelle
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Of course, you know... this means WAR!


39 posted on 07/09/2008 7:48:20 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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