Virginia Democrats seem determined to ensure they will never get elected again. Their determination to turn nearly all Virginia gun owners into criminals led to more than 90 counties in the state declaring themselves to be Second Amendment Sanctuaries.
Now the state’s Democrats want to cede Virginia’s power to decide who it wants to be president of the United States by giving the state’s electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. The state House of Delegates voted on Tuesday to place Virginia in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would cede participating states’ electoral votes to the national popular vote winner, regardless of who the people of Virginia voted for.
CNN reported that the compact “will go into effect only if the cumulative total of the states’ electoral votes surpasses the 270 necessary for a majority, which would require states that voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 to sign on.”
The bill was sponsored by Del. Mark Levine, who tried to explain why such a bill was necessary. Levine was the delegate who spent six minutes attempting to explain the definition of an “assault weapon” while getting literally every basic thing about guns wrong. So, that tells you a bit about his knowledge of the electoral college.
“This idea that some American citizens should have more power than other American citizens to choose the president of the United States, I, frankly, find profoundly offensive,” Levine said of the electoral college.
He naturally failed to realize that choosing a president based on the national popular vote solidifies that kind of power.
He claimed that determining the president based on the national popular vote “allows every single citizen of the United States to have...
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ReplyDeleteAnd what will they do when President Trump wins the popular vote in a landslide?
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Virginia. You've just told the citizens of your state that their votes count for absolutely NOTHING! Good luck getting re-elected when the popular vote doesn't go your way... You must be looking in the morror when you call Trump a fascist!
ReplyDeleteVirginia has fucked up everything they touch from the Civil war to the Chesapeake Bay.
ReplyDeleteIn now Blue Virginia, a Republican vote for President has not helped a Republican candidate in years..
ReplyDeleteAll of Virginia's electors have been Democrats.
With National Popular Vote, every voter, in every state, for every candidate, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election.
All votes would matter and count equally in the national vote total.
The vote of every voter in the country (Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or Green) would help his or her preferred candidate win the Presidency. Every vote in the country would become as important as a vote in a battleground state such as New Hampshire or Florida. The National Popular Vote bill would give voice to every voter in the country, as opposed to treating voters for candidates who did not win a plurality in the state as if they did not exist.
The National Popular Vote bill would give a voice to the minority party voters for president in each state. Now they don't matter to their candidate.
you are not making a lot of sense in the mathematics of elections. If fifty one percent of voters vote for one candidate in VA, the other 49 percent of voters are totally disenfranchised because all the available electors of the college would be required to vote for the fifty one percent candidate. And that is not constitutional.
DeleteYou are describing the current system.
DeleteIt's highly unlikely that this would ever be allowed to happen because there are some significant constitutional issues. I would love to hear the outrage, though, when all of the electoral vote for California, New York, DC, Hawaii, etc. have to be placed for a Republican president!
ReplyDeleteThe Founders created the Electoral College, but 48 states eventually enacted state winner-take-all laws.
DeleteThe U.S. Constitution says "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ."
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as "plenary" and "exclusive."
The normal way of changing the method of electing the President is by state legislatures with governors making changes in state law.
Historically, major changes in the method of electing the President have come about by state legislative action. For example, the people had no vote for President in most states in the nation's first election in 1789. However, now, as a result of changes in the state laws governing the appointment of presidential electors, the people have the right to vote for presidential electors in 100% of the states.