You are tied for that with us NY Conservative voters.
Our presidential and Senate vote are throwaway votes each and every time.
But I vote anyways.
Under his plan, the Hilldabeast would have won.
NO THANKS.
Looks brown with all their Global Warming
Too many in Sacramento want to allow convicted felons and illegal aliens to vote. They think we don’t know what they are up to, but if those groups tended to vote Republican, Cali would have already built the wall and would leave the felons under the jail. The terms “popular vote” and “democracy” are tools of the left. We cannot allow them to control the language.
Under popular vote states can increase their influence by counting votes wrong. State legislatures that are suspicious that other states do this will be tempted to arms races. California already counts illegal alien votes in due to lax enforcement of voter id...so the arms race is primed to begin.
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If I read this correctly, the author wants to join the National Suicide Pact so President Trump will come to California and say “hi.”
I don't think that the claim here is quite as constitutional as one thinks. While the legislature may award its electors in the manner that the legislature of that state chooses, that legislature is bound to represent the interests of THAT state, e.g. CA. I think a strong constitutional argument could be made that the legislature lacks the power to abdicate their duty to the citizens of California and instead make the voters in all the other states the arbiter of what California would choose to do.
It makes a mockery of representative government.
In any event there are clear grounds to challenge this and the power of the state legislature to do this is not a slam-dunk.
California may not be as big as Californians think, but it is still as big as the rest of us think—which is pretty large.
Where’s that Tracy Morgan gif shaking his head no.
This guy is delusional. The NPV circumvents the electoral college. The Dems have won the popular vote in six out of the last seven elections. And they will continue to do so.
The Dems won CA by 4.3 million votes. Hillary won nationally by 3 million votes.
The author should consider this proposal county by county. If this compact goes into force, the urban counties (where vote fraud is often rampant) will be able to overrule all other counties. In the last election, the county by county map shows Hillary won big in the cities, but lost almost all of the suburban and rural areas.
California Republicans cannot be saved by inflicting the rule of cities across the whole country.
But the country could well be doomed by turning away from its roots as a republic toward a “purer” democracy.
Quoting myself (yes I am that important):
If there is a silver lining in all this, it is the knowledge that the Lefties believe that they have to cheat in order to win.
The Constitution indicates that states choose electors.
But this doesn’t mean that the state can make the electors vote a certain way.
I have doubts that it is legal for states to band together, and decide they will give their electoral votes to the same candidate, regardless of whether states voters voted for that candidate.
As a Californian, let me just say this is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read on Free Republic, and makes me think that the author is not sincere. We should actually be going in the opposite direction, and repeal the 17th Amendment. The National Popular Vote would not just allow California to dominate national elections, it would allow fraud to do so.
Liberals tend to concentrate themselves in liberal enclaves, which is why the lost the last election. In our current system, it does not matter if you win with 51% or 91%, the same number of electors are awarded. Trump states are more politically diverse, so he won the electoral college without the popular vote. The same thing goes on in the Senate. It reflects the individual states and their (partial) sovereignty. I am fine with this system.
Not only is changing the constitution of eliminate the Electoral College an incredibly stupid idea and against the entire framework of the Constitution, but we really need to eliminate the popular vote of Senators.
Electing Senators by popular vote completely perverts the design of the Constitution and we have suffered from that perversion ever since.
No way should we further destroy the Constitution by eliminating the Electoral College. There will be no way back from that, just as there is no way back from the short sided perversion of the 17th Amendment.
This website and it’s founder are based in the state.
Couldn’t Congress stop this interstate compact garbage, per the Constitution?
California has at least 2.5 million illegals. Throw in legal aliens, the dead, and fictional voters, and the democrats have permanent control over California politics. Until a real American president throws out the illegals, decent people cannot win statewide in the People’s Republic of California.
“Given the winner take all rule in effect in each of these states, the Republican votes in Texas and California didn’t mean a thing.”
This doesn’t make any sense to me. If you voted Republican in Texas your vote DID count.
I like the optimism. The way things are going in the left and lefter coasts, things are going to have to get worse before they get better.