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Assuming that the GOP wins in 2012, the voters in the states that have already passed this weenie law are gonna be APPALLED.

That is because the DEMs will have won these [RELIABLY] Blue states [at the state level] and journalists will point out that [had the law ACTUALLY been in effect], THEIR electoral votes would have been STRIPPED from the DEM winner in their state and awarded to the GOP ...

As a result [if the GOP wins in 2012] I think the residents of these Blue states will DEMAND repeal of this stupid law ...

Assuming that the GOP wins in 2012, the voters in the states that have already passed this weenie law are gonna be APPALLED.

Don't count on it. I read it over when it managed to squeak through one house here in Michigan. They left themselves an opt out just in case a GOP win was pretty much assured. That way they could back out and force the GOP to win the hard way. All they had to do was opt out 6 months before the general election but the law would remain in place for next time.

Most Americans don’t care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state. . . they care whether he/she wins the White House. Voters want to know, that even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was directly and equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans consider the idea of the candidate with the most popular votes being declared a loser detestable. We don’t allow this in any other election in our representative republic.

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls in closely divided Battleground states: CO – 68%, FL – 78%, IA 75%, MI – 73%, MO – 70%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM– 76%, NC – 74%, OH – 70%, PA – 78%, VA – 74%, and WI – 71%; in Small states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK – 70%, DC – 76%, DE – 75%, ID – 77%, ME – 77%, MT – 72%, NE 74%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM – 76%, OK – 81%, RI – 74%, SD – 71%, UT – 70%, VT – 75%, WV – 81%, and WY – 69%; in Southern and Border states: AR – 80%,, KY- 80%, MS – 77%, MO – 70%, NC – 74%, OK – 81%, SC – 71%, TN – 83%, VA – 74%, and WV – 81%; and in other states polled: CA – 70%, CT – 74%, MA – 73%, MN – 75%, NY – 79%, OR – 76%, and WA – 77%.

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