Posted on 04/04/2024 12:46:48 PM PDT by grcuster
A new Maine bill was passed by the state legislature on Wednesday that would tie Maine’s Electoral College votes for president to the country’s popular vote.
The bill narrowly passed the state’s lower chamber in a 73-72 vote. It was then approved by the state Senate, and it now heads to the desk of Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME), who has not indicated whether she will sign the legislation. If she does, the state would join a national movement where each state in the agreement would assign their Electoral College votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
“The Maine legislature’s approval of the NPV bill gets our country one step closer to a goal that already enjoys broad bipartisan support and simply makes sense: electing the president by popular vote,” former Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis told the Washington Examiner. “The National Popular Vote plan advances the principle of one-person, one-vote when electing the president. That’s good for every voter, the integrity of our elections, and the health of our democracy. Period.”
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Wonder what they’ll do if a Republican gets the popular vote?
Trump, then...................
Maine obviously forgot the electoral college is there to ensure small states have a say in the election. If we had a popular vote Maine would always be ignored.
Trump wins the popular vote and this will be reversed faster than a New York minute.
Won’t work.
The Electoral College amendment, of the 1800s, in rock solid, per Bannon.
It may drag the results out, though.
And, things we never dreamed would make “law”, certainly are, these days :-(
Thirty million illegal invaders happy to vote Democrat. All the remaining blacks getting hungry for that slave reparations too.
Exactly.
These jerks can’t have it both ways.
Wouldn’t want to see that backfire.
The Republicans ought to present a plan that each county gets 1 vote based on popular vote of the county. The winner of the most counties, wins the election.
Maine obviously forgot the electoral college is there to ensure small states have a say in the election. If we had a popular vote Maine would always be ignored.
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And I guess any state has the right to decide how to use their electors, but it seems oxymoronic to send your electoral college votes for YOUR STATE based on the NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE. You are basically eliminating the whole purpose for even having your own electors.
But hay, what will be hilarious is watching the democrats in Maine crying when Trump wins the popular vote.
States became a part of the Union with the understanding that the electoral vote would be in place. If it is removed, is the original deal broken? Can they leave? (Yes, I know. They won’t be allowed to leave. But they should be allowed to, since the terms of admittance have been modified. Without the Electoral College, small states in effect become slaves.)
Why did our Framers allow so little of the popular element in the Constitution? Because they knew that left unchecked, democracy encourages the supremacy of factions. From James Madison in The Federalist #10, a faction is a group of citizens united and actuated by a common passion or interest adverse to the rights of other citizens.
Factions put their interests ahead of those of the nation. While the well-structured government of 1787 as amended in 1791 recognized the free speech rights of citizens as expressed through their factions, it hindered the self-destructive tendency of factions to set Americans against themselves.
<>the electoral college is there to ensure small states have a say in the election<>
Myth.
I can understand the fags wanting this. The electoral college makes it harder to cheat. It also makes it tougher to win. You have to print millions of extra Banana Boater Voter Ballots. Something stinks when you have to print 150 million ballots for 76 million voters.
Maine signs their proxy over NY & Cali
What they won’t accept until long into the winter of 2025 is that President trump will be president
He will have as much mercy on these people as they have had on the American people. That’s what scares them
In the 68th Federalist, Alexander Hamilton praised the Electoral College. “The process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will never be held by any man who is not eminently endowed with the required qualifications. It will not be too strong to say that the station will probably be filled by men pre-eminent for their ability and virtue.”
Our Framers don’t get the credit they deserve. Their presidential electoral system was designed to avoid the road to ruin so typical in republics: popular election of a demagogic strongman who promises to quell that which he foments: societal discord and anarchy, by rewarding his supporters and destroying his opponents.
How in the world did our Framers come up with the method in Article II to elect a president? Contrary to popular belief, there are two central purposes to their outwardly clumsy and confusing process.
First, it was to elevate men of only the highest public virtue, wisdom and talents to the executive office.
Second, in order to exercise his powers for the greater good of the nation, these exceptional men were not to be beholden in any way to the electors who put them into office or to anyone else. Like hereditary kings, un-beholden presidents were to stand above factional disputes. They were to execute their sworn duty to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,” without the encumbrance of paying off political debts.
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