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To: Stayfrosty

How can conservatism win in ALL U.S. cities? This is what, still, needs to be done. If the electoral college is eliminated, then the cities will determine who all future U.S. Presidents will be, and this is the main reason why the left wants to get rid of the electoral college.


34 posted on 02/22/2011 7:16:24 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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You’re so right, they lose .. they change the playing field. And that effort is newly reinvigorated:

Tom Golisano to Lead National Popular Vote Effort
5:27 AM, Feb 22, 2011

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ALBANY — Tom Golisano, the three-time New York gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Rochester-area native, is becoming the spokesman for the National Popular Vote campaign, bankrolling an effort to get states to move to a popular-vote system for electing a president.

Golisano, the founder of Paychex Inc. in Penfield, Monroe County, will announce his role at a news conference in Washington D.C. today. The announcement comes on the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres, which he has owned since 2003, is set to become official, a deal worth a reported $189 million.

In an interview with Gannett’s Albany Bureau on Monday, Golisano said his role in the national push will be to meet with legislative leaders and governors across the country. The measure has already passed six states and is being actively considered in dozens of others.

Golisano wouldn’t say how much he is contributing financially to the effort, which will include an advertising and lobbying campaign, saying only “it’s not an inexpensive proposition.”

“The real essence of the issue is in a democracy the person that gets the most number of votes should win. And everybody’s vote should count equally,” Golisano said. “When you have the winner-take-all rule that you have in the Electoral College, all the votes don’t count equally. So that’s why I’m involved

http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/110466/1/Tom-Golisano-to-Lead-National-Popular-Vote-Effort
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/110466/1/Tom-Golisano-to-Lead-National-Popular-Vote-Effort


46 posted on 02/22/2011 7:39:24 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore
If the electoral college is eliminated,

Never going to happen. Even in the darkest of days for the conservative movement, there is no way 38 state legislatures would ever go for this.

89 posted on 02/23/2011 1:01:46 AM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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