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To: bill1952

Libs are always talking about eliminating the electoral college because it empowers big city Democrat machines and diminishes the importance of smaller states. Eliminating the electorial college would require a Constitutional Amendment, and thus, not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever.


20 posted on 04/14/2009 11:25:59 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Eliminating the electorial college would require a Constitutional Amendment...

No. They have discovered an end run around it.
There is a movement afloat that would require state electors to cast ballots that conform to the National popular vote.
This falls under a compact or agreement within and between states, binding the respective state electors, and could tie us up in knots for decades. - Unless you believe that the courts are going to help us.

There are blue states taking this idea very seriously.

23 posted on 04/14/2009 11:54:27 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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