“popular vote” = aka “mob rule”
They are setting up the elections to be determined by the 12+ million illegal aliens who would be given amnesty.
Palin says, “Thank you very much, Massachussetts!”
What idiots. Getting an early start for 2012. It never ends.
The people of Massachusetts giving up their vote. MORONS!
I don’t get it. All MA can do is affect how their own electors cast their votes; they don’t have anything to do with the rest of the country.
If MA wants to assign their electors according to the popular vote, then fine. How many do they get? Twelve?
Repeal the 17th ammendment!
This like everything in Assachucettes will be a good idea until it isn’t. Goldfish have a better memory of what politicians are likely to do. They even keep electing J. F. Kerry
If this pot of liberal quackium gets accepted, campaigns will be conducted in 10 states at the most and his fellow founders will start calling James Madison "Spinning James" as he winds up past 100k r.p.m.s!
This is a BAD move.
Voter FRAUD will determine who wins.
Notice how this nonsense only happens in liberal states? So lets analyze this a bit. The only way Massachusetts is ever going to vote for a republican is in a blowout win (ie Reagan ‘84) Otherwise, they’ll be voting democrat. So, the only time this could ever have an impact is if a Republican wins the popular vote in a tight race but is behind in the EC until.... Massachusetts to the rescue!!!
I say, let ‘em pass it! That should work out just as well as the succession play for Kerry’s senate seat (which ultimately ended up with Scott Brown getting Kennedy’s seat)
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The bill, which passed on a 28-to-9 vote, now heads to Democratic Governor Deval Patrick’s desk. The governor has said in the past that he supports the bill, said his spokeswoman Kim Haberlin.
Under the law, which was enacted by the House last week, all 12 of the state’s electoral votes would be awarded to the candidate who receives the most votes nationally.
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Hopefully the good folks of Massachusetts cop an attitude and leave the Union.
Pleas oh pleas oh please.
mob rule here we come.
“Tisei also criticized the proponents for not following the normal procedures to seek a constitutional amendment.
“The thing about this that bothers me the most is it's so sneaky. This is the way that liberals do things a lot of times, very sneaky,” he said. “This is sort of an end run around the Constitution.”
I am all for every Democrat controlled state adopting this rule.
Likely it will be only one Seat lost, but still, this is a pretty dumb idea.
I simply cannot believe that these chumps have the audacity to pull this off with everything that is going on since Obama’s illegal Inauguration.
To the extent that this measure stays confined to states that are already highly likely to award their electoral votes to the Democrat, this is good for us. It is very difficult to image a scenario in which Massachusetts was going to award its electoral votes to the Republican except in the case of a massive Republican landslide like Reagan v Mondale. Same with Illinois, DC, and California if it adopts this measure. So we lose nothing due to this law. On the other hand, there are lots of plausible scenarios in which the liberal residents of Massachusetts could find that under this law, their electoral votes went to the Republican who lost Massachusetts but won the popular vote by some razor-thin margin. If the liberals are stupid enough to keep passing this in liberal states while other states don't go along, the liberals will sooner or later help to elect the exact person they didn't want. |
I hate what Massachusetts has done. I consider it anti-American...they did this because they focus to population centers only on the left and motivate their voters to get out. That is and always has been their strategy,. With this kind of dumb rule Al Gore would have been in the White House. With this dumb rule 100% of Massachusetts can vote for candidate x, but in the USA Candidate Y gets more votes and Mass would have to go AGAINST 100% of their people to then give Candidate Y their electoral votes.
Its unconstitutional. But then again, the Mass Legislature answers to no one...especially the little people.