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To: Breto

Then you should want to see your vote actually count under the National Popular Vote.

Under National Popular Vote, every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections, and included in the national count that determines the candidate with the most popular votes, who then is guaranteed the majority of electoral votes needed to win the presidency. It gives a voice to the minority party in those states where elections are seen as a foregone conclusion. Elections wouldn’t be about winning states. No more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps. Every vote, everywhere would be counted for and directly assist the candidate for whom it was cast.


59 posted on 07/17/2011 2:22:01 PM PDT by mvymvy
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To: All; mvymvy
Under National Popular Vote, every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections

BULL. Democrats would just ramp up GOTV in megacities to tip the "national popular vote" those outside the megacities in select states would have their votes rendered meaningless. A high Democrat turnout in Los Angeles could tip a compact-joining state like Wyoming to match the popular vote even if the overwhelming numbers of Wyoming residents voted Republican.

It's insanity. The entire nation would be held hostage just as millions of Californians across a much wider portion of the state are held hostage by L.A. and S.F.

Do you think the Democrats elected to every statewide office in CA care about anywhere outside those two strong holds? They don't because they don't have to.

The Founders new exactly what they were doing when they set up the electoral college system rather than going for a president directly elected by popular vote. This "progressive" reform is a Democrat's wet dream.

101 posted on 07/17/2011 3:53:47 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Fred Thompson lost his marbles along with his hair.)
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