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RNC stomps Electoral College switch (re plans afoot for popular vote)
WashTimes ^ | 8-5-11 | Ralph Z. Hallow

Posted on 08/05/2011 9:58:30 PM PDT by STARWISE

A move to change the way America elects its president got a clear thumbs down in a vote by members of the Republican National Committee on Friday.

A resolution opposing the National Popular Vote initiative won support of every voting RNC member but one who voted "present" instead of "yes."

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The initiative has been gaining momentum in state legislatures at what for opponents is an alarming rate, with Republican lawmakers being told top officials of the RNC support it.

Members' emotion against abandoning the electoral college was running so high that dozens of members lined up behind two microphones to give individual 10-minute impassioned arguments against the initiative.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; electoralcollege; popularvote; rnc
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Be on alert and prepared to fight in your states for this growing movement the Dems and their thugs would just love so more dead people could show up to vote.

No way ... !!

1 posted on 08/05/2011 9:58:34 PM PDT by STARWISE
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To: onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; Fred Nerks; Red Steel; seekthetruth; ...

..Ding!


2 posted on 08/05/2011 9:59:39 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

The Dems would love nothing more than to have New York City, LA, Boston, Baltimore and Philidelphia control who will be the president every four years.


3 posted on 08/05/2011 10:02:48 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!)
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To: STARWISE

That happens and I believe many states would secede...


4 posted on 08/05/2011 10:04:41 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: Artemis Webb

Notice that it was Saul Anuzis who was backing this. RINO extraordinaire.


5 posted on 08/05/2011 10:15:58 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: STARWISE
Check this out:

Amendment XIV

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

If a state decides to allow the rest of the country choose its electors instead of its own citizens, then it should lose all representation in the House per the 14th Amendment.

6 posted on 08/05/2011 10:18:35 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: STARWISE

Anyone who supports this is an assh0le, including Fred Thompson, whom I supported in ‘08.


7 posted on 08/05/2011 10:25:04 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("I'll just go back to the dream I was having, before love went astray." Al Stewart)
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To: alstewartfan

“whom I supported in ‘08”

Out of blind hope, I assume.


8 posted on 08/05/2011 10:27:34 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: STARWISE
The Rats have been fighting for this for quite a while.

If it's good for the Rats, it's bad for the country.

Simple as that!

9 posted on 08/05/2011 10:28:46 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: STARWISE

The Rats have been trying to kill the Electoral College for a long time. They want the ghettos and barios controlling who gets nominated and elected. They always have.


10 posted on 08/05/2011 10:28:59 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: STARWISE

When will the RNC address the matter of open republican primarys?

That’s what’s killing us.


11 posted on 08/05/2011 10:30:35 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: STARWISE
Good Lord people, calm down. It would take an amendment to the Constitution.

Geez...

12 posted on 08/05/2011 10:30:42 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: STARWISE

Too late. Passed in Maryland.


13 posted on 08/05/2011 10:32:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (It's the Tea Party's fault!)
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To: mylife

Agree. They are the RINO National Committee.


14 posted on 08/05/2011 10:33:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: The Cajun

Damn right!


15 posted on 08/05/2011 10:39:45 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

After carpetbagging her way into the erection in the state of New York, then winning, the first bill advanced by Her Thighness Hitlery Ramrod Klintoon was to propose to change the Electoral College to a national popular vote. If you trust Ms. Cankles, vote your “conscience.”


16 posted on 08/05/2011 10:40:25 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

I still might have voted for him over the rest of the field. Who knows? They all sucked in ‘08, except Keyes, who is not really qualified, IMO.


17 posted on 08/05/2011 10:45:46 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("I'll just go back to the dream I was having, before love went astray." Al Stewart)
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To: EagleUSA
"They want the ghettos and barios controlling who gets nominated and elected."

You forgot prisons and graveyards.

18 posted on 08/05/2011 11:01:25 PM PDT by matthew fuller (If America is to survive, the national socialist democrat (NAZI) party must be destroyed.)
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To: STARWISE

That icky Constitution keeps messing things up.


19 posted on 08/05/2011 11:20:38 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Too late. Passed in Maryland.

Passed in MA too - I live in MD. Not much attention paid to it by citizens when it was passed in the legislature.

MD is a reliably Blue State. Law doesn't kick in until enuf states with 270 electoral votes also pass [which ain't gonna happen for a while].

Point is that when GOP wins [hopefully 2012] people are gonna realize that IF the law had been in effect, THEIR BLUE electoral votes would have been transferred to the Republican. They will then DEMAND repeal of the law ...

20 posted on 08/05/2011 11:21:07 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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