We need a parallel amendment to boot NY and CA out of the union.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.