Wonder what they’ll do if a Republican gets the popular vote?
Trump, then...................
Maine obviously forgot the electoral college is there to ensure small states have a say in the election. If we had a popular vote Maine would always be ignored.
Trump wins the popular vote and this will be reversed faster than a New York minute.
Won’t work.
The Electoral College amendment, of the 1800s, in rock solid, per Bannon.
It may drag the results out, though.
And, things we never dreamed would make “law”, certainly are, these days :-(
Wouldn’t want to see that backfire.
The Republicans ought to present a plan that each county gets 1 vote based on popular vote of the county. The winner of the most counties, wins the election.
States became a part of the Union with the understanding that the electoral vote would be in place. If it is removed, is the original deal broken? Can they leave? (Yes, I know. They won’t be allowed to leave. But they should be allowed to, since the terms of admittance have been modified. Without the Electoral College, small states in effect become slaves.)
Why did our Framers allow so little of the popular element in the Constitution? Because they knew that left unchecked, democracy encourages the supremacy of factions. From James Madison in The Federalist #10, a faction is a group of citizens united and actuated by a common passion or interest adverse to the rights of other citizens.
Factions put their interests ahead of those of the nation. While the well-structured government of 1787 as amended in 1791 recognized the free speech rights of citizens as expressed through their factions, it hindered the self-destructive tendency of factions to set Americans against themselves.
I can understand the fags wanting this. The electoral college makes it harder to cheat. It also makes it tougher to win. You have to print millions of extra Banana Boater Voter Ballots. Something stinks when you have to print 150 million ballots for 76 million voters.
Maine signs their proxy over NY & Cali
What they won’t accept until long into the winter of 2025 is that President trump will be president
He will have as much mercy on these people as they have had on the American people. That’s what scares them
Folks, this is a canary in the coal mine.
Republicans need to get these laws repealed in the states that have passed them.
No one should have their presidential vote nullified just because Los Angeles county votes for the Democrat party.
Stupid move, for sure.
Minimize even further the value of individual voters in your state. Yup, that’s a recipe for success...
Mob rule, democracy in its pure form
Nasty pieces of excrement. I watched video where 2 dims who voted against it the first time were told to go take a walk outside when the second vote came up so it would pass.
Ideology is more important than sovereignty or survival.
Yawn. When one single state that voted for Trump in 2016/2020 passes this, let me know, meanwhile it’s just low-hanging fruit states, of which the movement for this Compact is rapidly running out of.