Colorado decides to bypass electoral collage

[Jackie S]

Doing away with the Electorial College could be detrimental to the major Parties.

Doing away with the winner take all aspect of State vote allocation could make it prohibitive for any one candidate to get a majority of the vote.

That could lead to the House of Representatives electing our President.

[friendly fred]

Originally Posted by lustylad

Whoa! I misunderstood the bill. Now I get it.

Here's the problem for the short-sided idiots who are pushing this NPV route. It dis-empowers the voters in those states that approve it. What happens if a Republican loses New York and Cali but wins the national popular vote? Betcha the Dems in those two states would be furious, especially if it cost them what would have been an Electoral College victory under normal (non-NPV) rules.

You're right - this may have to be adjudicated by SCOTUS.

The irony is while the Dems attack the EC because it gives unequal weight to voters in different states, this NPV runaround would dilute the weight of voters in states that adopt it even more!

I agree and it is stupid of those liberal states to give up their electoral voting rights power, but I think they have found a legal way to do it.

The electoral college is needed to prevent tyranny by the high population centers in our once great Republic.

[Yssup Rider]

And slave owners?

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

And slave owners?

[Yssup Rider]

Do you have a point to make?

[The_Waco_Kid]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Do you have a point to make?

you asked about slaves. i showed who really is responsible for slavery. let me make the point again

[rexdutchman]

^^^ He don't get ,,,, cogent answers

[dilbert firestorm]

YR, this thread had nothing to do with slavery. so why bring up a non-issue?

[Danielle Silver]

Keep it on TOPIC...

[oeb11]

Thank You - DS

[Ex-CEO]

A pretty good rundown of the problems this would entail:


https://fee.org/articles/why-nationa...pv-supporters/

[friendly fred]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

And slave owners?

I think that gets back to the 3/5th's controversy.

I find the electoral college is needed to ensure we don't get stuck with liberal Presidents from here on out.

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

YR, this thread had nothing to do with slavery. so why bring up a non-issue?

The electoral college was, according to many scholars, adopted to protect the slave states.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...one-180961171/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...khil-reed-amar

This thread is about the electoral college.

I assumed the comment was all over the topic.

Of course, i could have mistaken the OP. Maybe OP really meant electoral “collage,” in which case you’re all off topic!

Here’s an electoral collage for you.

[dilbert firestorm]

looks like New jersey is looking to do the same.

[bb1961]

Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

The electoral college was, according to many scholars, adopted to protect the slave states.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...one-180961171/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...khil-reed-amar

This thread is about the electoral college.

I assumed the comment was all over the topic.

Of course, i could have mistaken the OP. Maybe OP really meant electoral “collage,” in which case you’re all off topic!

Here’s an electoral collage for you.

You "axe" a lot of questions...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe
So what are you axing...
I have some logs here you can...I would rather use a splitter!!