I read a disturbing piece of news in the Daily Mail. The House Judiciary Committee has forwarded a bill to effectively do away with the Electoral College by mandating that no matter what the people vote for in the state, their votes do not get counted as the state's electors could cast the votes for the person getting the most popular vote nationwide. Why have the circus even meet? If in the last election the Electoral College were compelled to do this, then Obama would have received the Electoral College votes of West Virginians, who voted overwhelmingly against him.
Ohio's pivotal role in close presidential elections depends upon certain rules. Some people would now like to change those rules, at least in some states. We're talking here, of course, about the Electoral College. A candidate can get all of a state's votes in the Electoral College by getting 50.000002 percent of its popular vote.
President Bush won decisively in Tuesday's balloting, winning both the state-by-state Electoral College tally used to select a president and a majority of the votes cast across the country. After the 2000 race, in which the electoral college race was in doubt for weeks and in which Bush lost the popular vote, this victory has the feel of something larger than it is. The words "mandate" and "landslide" do not apply here, however. Instead, the results show a nation deeply divided.
...The plan asks state legislatures to pledge all of their state's electooral votes to the winner of the national popular vote once NP...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner said today that changing Pennsylvania's awarding of Electoral College votes from a winner-take-all format to one based on results in individual Congressional districts could cost the commonwealth millions of dollars of economic activity during next year's presidential race. In 2008, the presidential and vice-presidential campaigns spent $71.2 million in advertising alone in Pennsylvania, in addition to 47 visits in pursuit of the state's 21 electoral votes. Dividing Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes according to Congressional district results would dilute Pennsylvania's political importance in a national race, and reduce the number of campaign appearances by both presidential candidates - resulting...
DES MOINES - Gov. Terry Branstad said Tuesday he opposes a plan to replace the electoral college with a national popular vote because it would rob small states like Iowa of their influence in presidential politics. Under the electoral college system, the candidate who wins a majority of votes in a particular state receives all of that state's electoral votes, which are equal to the number of members it has in Congress. Opponents don't like it because the system makes it possible to win the popular vote nationally, but lose the election in the electoral college. Supporters say the electoral college system ensures elections can't be won just by carrying a couple of populous states, such as California and Texas.
The proposal by some fellow Republicans for a "national popular vote (NPV) compact" is an example of what H.L. Mencken meant when he said, "For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, clear and wrong. The compact would subvert the Constitution by changing how we elect our president. Instead of forthrightly seeking to amend the Constitution by abolishing the Electoral College, the proposal bypasses the Constitution by creating a compact among some states that would bind all states.
Under the plan, the electoral votes of a state would be committed to the slate that is...
Millions of Americans believed all through his presidency that George W. Bush never deserved to hold that office. That was because Democrat Al Gore won more actual votes in the 2000 election than Bush, even if he didn't get more electoral votes. A very similar thing almost happened four years later, when Democrat John Kerry ran more than 3 million actual votes behind Bush, but would have become another minority-vote president if he'd taken just 60,000 more votes in hotly contested Ohio.
... close calls because of the Electoral College, where votes are cast by each state without regard...
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