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In voting to end electoral college, Maryland dares to go where Schwarzenegger wouldn't
Los Angeles Times ^
| April 12, 2007
| George Skelton:
Posted on 04/12/2007 8:41:31 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Attempts to eliminate the electoral college continue. What was the governor of Maryland thinking?!!!!
To: FairOpinion
Differing attention from your governator is understandable. Read it.
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:44:42 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: kinoxi
?????
You disagree with Arnold, you think he should have signed the CA Dem bill abolishing the electoral college?!
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:46:36 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Stop the Dems. Work for Republican Victory in 2008.)
To: FairOpinion
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:48:03 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
Maryland Enacts Law for Electoral College Change
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/11/124420.shtml
Maryland has become the first state to enact a measure that would circumvent the Electoral College and award the states electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes nationwide.
Gov. Martin OMalley, a Democrat who was elected in November, signed the bill on Tuesday. It would not take effect until states that collectively have 270 electoral votes the minimum needed to win a presidential election pass similar measures.
As NewsMax reported in September, supporters of the move, called the “Interstate Compact, seek to nullify the Electoral College without going through the difficult process of amending the U.S. Constitution.
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:48:56 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Stop the Dems. Work for Republican Victory in 2008.)
To: FairOpinion
He cannot abolish the electoral college. We both know that.
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:49:36 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: kinoxi
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:50:13 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Stop the Dems. Work for Republican Victory in 2008.)
To: FairOpinion
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:50:34 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: FairOpinion
"What was the governor of Maryland thinking?!!!! He's a leftist DemonRAT. He doesn't think, only feels.
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:51:52 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: FairOpinion
I love the electoral college.
To: FairOpinion
A quote from your post #5
It would not take effect until states that collectively have 270 electoral votes the minimum needed to win a presidential election pass similar measures.
A worthless bill.
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:53:08 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: FairOpinion
Here in Massachusetts, the significance of the positive value of the Electoral College will become more recognized as we lose more Seats.
They were all against it in 2000, but by 2020, they’ll be hailing its virtues.
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:54:17 PM PDT
by
Radix
(You might find my other Tag Lines for sale on E-Bay.)
To: kinoxi
"supporters of the move, called the Interstate Compact, seek to nullify the Electoral College without going through the difficult process of amending the U.S. Constitution."
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posted on
04/12/2007 8:55:30 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Victory in Iraq. Stop Hillary. Stop the Dems. Work for Republican Victory in 2008.)
To: FairOpinion
A majority of the Electoral College are required to adopt this before it becomes law. Maryland is easy pickins of course but this is ridiculous.
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:00:33 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: FairOpinion
It will never happen and that is a great thing. Thank you again Founding Fathers :)
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:00:36 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: FairOpinion
Small states will live to regret changing the current system. However, they have the authority to send their electors however they wish. I don’t think they’re the first, though. Doesn’t Maine apportion their electors by vote? (And someone else, I think...can’t remember the other state.)
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:02:14 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
To: xzins
(And someone else, I think...cant remember the other state.) Nebraska
2 votes go to the statewide winner and 1 for each Congressional District.
To date neither state has split its votes, but Maine has often come close to a 3-1 split.
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:24:40 PM PDT
by
rhinohunter
(Even I have a better chance than Hagel)
To: FairOpinion
Oh, I want so bad for the Republican to win the popular vote and lose in the EC until Maryland comes to the rescue.
The sound would be like the squealing of a million stuck pigs. "The people of Maryland must not be disenfranchised! Repeal this racist law!" It would be sweet beyond belief.
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:26:29 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
To: rhinohunter
My memory can’t recall anything in the Constitution that requires a winner-take-all system. I don’t know the history of the electoral college in this matter, though.
Did the early republic also have a winner-take-all system?
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:28:52 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
To: FairOpinion
Any upstanding right leaning citizen of Maryland can and should take this to court. It’s real simple.
Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution.....
“No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation;”
I’m going to assume that means with other states as well. This “first” is clearly unconstitutional. But what else is new with the leftist thinking?
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posted on
04/12/2007 9:34:41 PM PDT
by
MissouriConservative
(We accommodate other cultures at the expense of ours.)
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