Posted on 01/29/2007 7:40:26 AM PST by seetheman
And the World Series Trophy should be awarded to the team that scores the most runs in the regular season - no need to mess with those individual games scores...
I thought Colorado voted on this back in 2004? I guess their legislature doesn't care.
They file these bills all the time, I don't know why the media insists on reporting it like it's anything unusual or new. Get back to me when one passes completely and is signed by the state's governor.
Personally I'd like to see these kinds of laws past in liberal states that like this kind of stuff, California, New York and Massachusetts. Let the liberals make it harder on themselves to win. Give them the rope.
Unconstitutional in every way. If ALL laws were purely passed as a "popularity contest", there would be NO minority rights....
This socilialist policy in its purest form, where CA plus NY, plus the Northeast and Northwest=Democrat/Socialist President will win every time.
The rest of the country becomes dis-enfranchised and their votes become over-whelmed by sheer numbers of entitlements-recievers, and lunatic leftist wacko's.
It is a viable movement that is moving forward, including in CA, MA, and NY. The idea is to circumvent the electoral college and have the vote decided by popular vote. It gives more power to the large states and urban areas.
OMG. That's insane.
Thank goodness. This will not happen.
President Bush handily won the popular vote in 2004 - but could have been forced to yield to Massachusetts John Kerry, had 60,000 votes in Ohio swung the other way.
But under this proposal then Oregon's Electoral votes would have gone to Bush. This means that if Ohio (20 EV) had gone to Kerry and Oregon (7 EV) had this law in place, then Bush would have won 275 to 264.
That is, the Court will slap it down unless Hillary Clinton sneaks into the White House and names a couple of her lawyer friends to the Court, who had their ethics surgically removed at birth.
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Probably, but voter fraud could increase dramatically.
The most partisan of the states could have the most reckless of verification and validation standards, with the unstated goal of boosting their side in the general election. Once such is the perception of opposed states, there may well be a competition to see who can cook up the most votes, becoming more and more blatant over time.
True, and it also sows the seeds of some very bad regional dissension. I think in some respects it would mirror the impetus behind the Populist movement in the late 19th century, although the conservative/liberal roles will be reversed this time.
A look at the red/blue electoral maps will show exactly how the battle lines will be drawn -- how many election cycles would it take before the red regions take umbrage to being ruled by the whims of the blue bits?
This was soundly defeated in Colorado...
It doesn't bypass the Constitution at all. Article II, Section 1 clearlys says that each state's legislature decides how the Electors are selected. Why the Oregon Legislature would want to reduce Oregon's importance in the Presidential race is beyond me, but they do have the authority to do it.
Electoral College / Constitution bump.........
Boy, what a lie. Bush won that state by much more.
This is just unconstitutional, but since when did liberals care abouts anyones rights.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
wouldn't this violate the above?
Please check my previous post. I do believe this would violate the Constitution.
Article. II.Section. 1.
Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Actually, this proposal is not unconstitutional in any way - the electoral votes are to be apportioned in the manner in which the legislature of the state deems appropriate - this could be a coin flip if they wanted to.
Now, having said that, I don't agree with the proposal, and the state is simply giving up its representation by doing so. The voters of the state should hold the legislature accountable for acting contrary to their best interest.
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