However, the compact would take effect only if enough states - those with a majority of votes in the Electoral College - agreed to it.
Now, if only CA would do the same thing...
Funny...
This could put these two very blue states in the red column.
Sigh. Cherry Hill, NJ is a nice place to live. Corzine is making it more and more difficult to remain.
This is funny. LOL. I guess we are going to have to some serious GOTV in Texas.
So, that takes two “blue” states and puts them in play?
Not true. The law doesn't go into effect until states with a majority of electoral votes have signed up. This won't happen, so it's a cheap way for morons to protest the 2000 election results.
They are apparently so stupid they don't realize the pact could just as easily result in a Republican winning as a Democrat. They just assume the Democrat will automatically win the popular vote.
NJ will surely be sorry they got what they wished for.
Absolute stupidity. They are negating the opinion of their entire population...their population, if they vote for Candidate A, but Candidate B has more votes nationwide, will have all of their electoral votes go to Candidate B.
New Jersey voters, congratulations: the Democrats have once again proven they don’t give a damn about what you think.
The first time these liberal Massholes from big city, East coast states give their votes to a Republican who wins the Popular vote this whole thing will go away.
Then there will be mass lawsuits from the “Disenfranchised” who cry that their votes didn’t count.
This train wreck of elitism will be better than the Florida hanging chads
Which basically means that the state legislature told the voters of NJ to get bent, your vote doesn't count.
This will last until those states' EC votes get handed over to President Palin in 2012 ;)
This has been discussed at quite some length here. The gist of it is that this will make it so that the few states with large liberal cities will determine who the President is. Democrat candidates will only need to campaign to win the large cities and they will win the Electoral votes.
When defeat is certain, make waves and blow some smoke to seem like you are winning. A second version of this tactic is taking place in Alaska and known as Troopergate.
How sweet it will be when a Republican wins the popular vote while losing the electoral college vote, but wins the election because the geniuses in Joizy conspired to bite themselves in their own stinky butts.
I believe these measures are unconstitutional because they deprive the voters of their right to determine the electors in their own state. I cannot but think that they are unconstitutional under most states’ own laws. It not only subverts the purpose of the electoral college by replacing it with a dictatorship of the mob, it eliminates any possibility of small states having a say in the federal government.
While it’s not per se unconstitutional insofar as Article II, secs. 2 and 4 (and the Twelfth Amendment) go (the manner of choosing electors is up to the states), I believe this would constitute a deprivation of a constitutional right (to vote) without due process. If, in the off-chance that this actually gets adopted by enough states, it will be completely irrelevant what voters in Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Nebraska, Delaware, etc. think since you could do the math and determine which states in the aggregate would have enough popular votes to determine the outcome of a national election. In other words, a few coastal states plus Illinois, Ohio and Pensylvania would determine the outcome of every national election. Incredible. This is what passes for Progressive politics these days?
Let’s just throw the whole constitution out the window and have mob-rule. I knew Corzine was an idiot, but this takes the cake. Talk about disenfranchisement.
Probably a moot point since nobody running for office uses the word “republic” anymore. We’re all democrats now. But The constitution GUARANTEES to the states a REPUBLICAN FORM of government, and isn’t that the basis of the electoral college?
I suppose it had been the basis for the state legislatures, originally selecting their respective federal senators, too, but we forgot what a republic is.
Now the U.S. Senate is an elitist house of lords, because they feel no restraint from their state legislatures (which are closer to the common people), which I believe should have remained in place.
Congressman Billybob
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