Frankly, I expect the Republicans to do away with winner-take-all Electoral College elections in any blue states where they have the power to do it. Pennsylvania is one of those places. While it diminishes a state’s clout and can cause other minor nuisances, there simply is no other way for the Republicans to stay the way they want to be and ever win a presidential election again under the current system. However, if they can steal a bunch of Electoral College votes in Florida and Virginia and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Ohio and Wisconsin, why not try to win that way? It’s not like it is illegal or anything.
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They’ll certainly try, but I don’t see it happening, or happening without a major backlash. GOP overplayed its hand a long time ago, and they keep overplaying it.
These jerks are out of hand.
Actually, I think it’s a good idea, IF it’s implemented in ALL states.
Have to disagree… it would cede the presidency to gerrymandering in state houses.
Now… electing through popular vote, THAT I can get behind
If they do try, it would be an opportunity to try and finally abolish the damn thing altogether. Or at least make some rational changes, like uniform standards for distributing votes.
Time for the NPV Compact!
One voter, one vote.
Count ’em up and see who wins.
W/ironclad digital security regarding home voting (the one possible wild card in the deck) and equally ironclad oversight of poll voting if people want to vote that way, we might finally find out who it is that the American people…all of the American people who are eligible to vote…want in the driver’s seat.
Until then?
Catch as catch can, and may the best hustler(s) win.
So it goes.
Bet on it.
Until then?
The fix will always be in, one way or another.
The chances of the PermaGov ceding one of its rights to run a hustle on the American people? (Two of its rights if anonymous contributions were also to be outlawed?)
Slime and slimer.Oh.
Sorry.
Slim and slimmer.
Bet on it.
On with the game.
AG
Ironclad digital security is an oxymoron.
If Bruce Schneier is skeptical, then so am I.
I know. Tinfoil clad, maybe. Reasonably protected. It can be done. And at the very least, hacks can be detected.
AG
If not this, then going back to having the state legislature pick the slate of electors.
It’s completely constitutional, although out of fashion for the past 200 years.
I don’t see how the GOP wins a national election any time some without a massive ideological overhaul. They will continue to be a PITA at the state and house level though.