Posted on 01/26/2013 11:45:40 AM PST by Baynative
Republicans in swing states that went for President Obama are pushing for a big change in how the Electoral College works, reports the Washington Post. The idea is to apportion electoral votes according to congressional district, instead of the winner-take-all system that most states employ. In Virginia, for example, the difference would be dramatic—Obama would have taken only four of the state's 13 electoral votes in 2012.
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The concept of the Electoral college is still correct...the problem is too many “I don’t wanna work” gimmee folks.
I disagree. What turns many states into "Blue" states is high Dem voting in major cities (often accompanied with vote fraud). Doing this would mean that the Dems would only get the electoral votes of the big cities' congressional districts, and the rest of the state would likely go R.
Allocating the electoral votes by district within a state removes the incentive to cheat in the areas where its common. Democrats, unions, etc will figure out pretty quickly that wasting money on vote fraud is a pure loser.
I support this notion for Ohio, and any other state that’s interested.
The down side of this approach will the constant attempts a gerrymandering every congressional district every time there is a change in the State leadership roles.
That I can live with, for now. At least it gets my voice back on a level playing field with the libtard Buckeyes who threw the state to Zero and the 0bamunists in November.
Interestingly, I broached the subject to my State Rep and he tells me it’s a Federal issue. I sent it to my Congresscritter and he tells me it’s a State issue.
Gotta luv the buck-passin’
Absolutly.
Post this out to all sources.
Watch the donks squeal!
Actually we should put out a lot of mind-benders aimed directly at the communist agenda donks.
It will keep their sticky little fingers busy on the keyboards and dilute their efforts to communize this Republic..
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oh goodie....the repubs are looking more and more like the dims
And trust me when I say that ANY changes to the electoral college will in fact gut what is left of our republic. The left has been pushing hard for this approach for a long time....hmmm I wonder why....BECAUSE they really want a democracy where the popular vote is all that counts.
Our founders were wise in how they set elections up we ought to honor.
The Republicans can (and should) make this national in the following way:
1. Do this in all the battleground states they control (if they had done this for the 2012 election - FL, IA, MI, OH, PA, VA and WI - they would have elected Mitt). At least, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (winning Florida, where we came very close, plus a share of those three state, would do the trick; then, nominate Rubio for ‘16).
2. And propose a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to require ALL states to apportion their EVs this way. Enough Democrats would join us, to eliminate the advantage we’d gain by selectively applying the rule.
3. Even clean up a few things:
3a. Eliminate “Electors.”
3b. Have the Congress, in the event that no slate of candidates receives a majority of the EV, elect the slate of candidates in a joint session with each Senator and Representative casting one vote, for one of the two slates receiving the most EVs.
3c. Give DC, as long as what remains of it isn’t retroceded to Maryland, one Congressman, and have its people participate with Maryland in Senate and Presidential elections.
This total package would, right now, give the Republicans a slight advantage, which we would keep IF we keep control of a large majority of the state governments, which is the way it should be.
Just for fun assuming nationwide application of this approach for the past election
it would have resulted in the following: Anyone please correct if I made a miscalculation.
Party Divisions — US House, 2013
233 Republicans
200 Democrats
0 Independents
2 Vacancies — democrat
3 Washington DC EC votes — democrat
States Popular Vote X 2 for Senators (100)
26 X 2 = 52 — Democrat
24 X 2 = 48 — Republican
Total — 538 EC Votes
GOP — 281 (233 House, 48 Senator)
DEM — 257 (205 House, 52 Senator)
This would have to have all states using the allocation
method and that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
Reapportioning electoral votes in this way is a much better system. That way, those hardly believable 100% Obama wards and precincts will have no more affect on the rest of the state.
I think we all know that the reason for the voter registration drives is to expand the lists so that the corrupt election workers (such as those wearing Obama hats in polling places or sitting in front of Obama murals in polling places) can mark any leftover ballots for the democrats.
Representation in the assembly that is the Electoral College needs to be brought back into balance to reflect the actual population and their votes.
YES!!! I’ve been advocating this for years!
Majority vote winner for the state gets both Electoral votes for the two Senators...the rest of the state split up by congressional districts
One would think Dems would LOVE this idea since they LOVE to gerrymander districts / S
Also since libtards LOVE the idea of the popular vote winner, this is a step closer and actually pretty fair way to give everybody a say so and their vote will count...
This is actually a way to get gerrymandered districts to be broken up by state legislation's to give more "purple" districts that could go either way a much larger say in the end result...
You only use it in swing states. Not Texas.
Hey, this may be a stupid idea, but how about we let the States decide how they select the electoral colleges they send, and how about the state legislatures select the federal senators?
Idiotic idea that reeks of desperation.
I would like to see the same methodology apply to the election of US Senators who as well should represent both the states and the citizens of the states RATHER than the national mob.
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