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Durbin Announces Push For National Popular Vote Legislation
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) ^ | 12.20.16 | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Posted on 12/22/2016 10:20:32 AM PST by mdittmar

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Under Dick Durban’s theory, we would also have to change the Senate because based upon population it over represents the citizens of the less populous states and underrepresents the citizens of the more populous ones. Based upon population, by my math, California would go from 2 all the way up to 12 Senators, Texas would go to 8, Florida to 6, Illinois to 4..... But other states, such as Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine and New Hampshire would have to go to zero senators, and a number of other states from 2 down to 1. So why in the world would the less populous states ever agree to such a thing?


61 posted on 12/22/2016 11:36:08 AM PST by Stingray51
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To: HamiltonJay

stop lying you jackass:


1)Lying 2)Stupid 3)Thinks we are stupid.


62 posted on 12/22/2016 11:55:46 AM PST by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: cvq3842

Scary and sad.
We’ve lost so much, given up so much, but the scum still rises.


63 posted on 12/22/2016 12:07:49 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: cvq3842

Scary and sad.
We’ve lost so much, given up so much, but the scum still rises.


64 posted on 12/22/2016 12:07:53 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: mdittmar

DOA.

No Red State has entered the National Popular Vote compact.

And do we really want NY and CA to pick our Presidents?

I think not.


65 posted on 12/22/2016 12:09:04 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: mdittmar

What Durbin is doing is Constitutional.

What this Compact is doing is not.
Keep an eye on it, they’re about to attempt an end-run.


66 posted on 12/22/2016 12:46:52 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: stylin19a; All

“American voters” is true only if millions of illegal aliens, dead people, multiple voters, and various other illegal voters are included.


67 posted on 12/22/2016 2:05:06 PM PST by libstripper (oHillary is willing to risk her own life to protect her secretive nature. She would rather go to her)
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To: mdittmar

In neither of the last two cases did the losing candidate get a “majority” of the vote. They got a “plurality”, which showed that a majority of americans did NOT WANT THEM.

But the EC properly filtered these regional candidates out, as the candidate who won a majority of the states was declared president.


68 posted on 12/22/2016 3:57:55 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mdittmar

honor the principle of “one person, one vote

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Well Dick, the principle of “one person, one vote” makes the senate obsolete. If we’re doing to be a true democracy, there’s no need for a senate.


69 posted on 12/22/2016 4:05:21 PM PST by HenpeckedCon
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