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There is so much to comment upon....sheesh...where to start?

"He has concocted a plan for states to skirt the Electoral College system legally to insure the election of whichever presidential candidate receives the most votes nationwide."

Starts off wrong to begin with. It is not "legal" for states to enter into compacts with each other without the consent of Congress. This isn't going to happen anytime soon. Next, "skirting" the Constitution is not legal to begin with. You either follow it or you don't...no grey area here.

"“The bottom line is that the system has outlived its usefulness,” said Assemblyman Thomas J. Umberg, the Anaheim Democrat who sponsored the bill here. “It’s past time that Americans should elect their president by direct vote of the people.”"

Yeah, that direct election sure worked for Senators huh? One of the worst things done was allow for direct election of Senators. This took the last link to state's power away. Congress was meant to be kept in check by a House elected by the people and a Senate elected by State legislators. This meant that States had some say in the federal government as well as the people. It was a perfect system. Then direct election and WHAM....states became the lackeys of the feds...."no more highway money until you bend over and grab your ankles in front of the federal gods." It went from the United States of America to the United State of America.

Now they want to take away the power of the small states and the less populace states and give it to the urbanites and a few enclaves of liberals who tend to congregate like rats. This man should be hung for treasonous ideals.