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DRAWING THE LINE

GOP Plan to 'Rig' Electoral Votes Loses Key Support

The proposed system would make it easier for Republican presidential candidates to win

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by Lisa Fine

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Image: Republican State Leadership Committee

Key Republican officials in Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and Michigan have recently come out in opposition to plans that would redistribute the electoral votes in their states in a way that would benefit GOP presidential candidates, Politico reports.

But Republican-controlled statehouses in two blue states, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, are still actively considering the idea to assign electoral votes for presidential candidates based on Congressional districts rather than by popular vote, liberal site Talking Points Memo reports. Such a change would benefit Republican candidates in states where GOP-controlled statehouses are in charge of redrawing Congressional districts. The proposals have triggered a firestorm of criticism, calling it a plot to rig elections.

Governors and lawmakers in Virginia, Michigan, Ohio have recently voiced opposition to bills proposing the idea in their states. In Florida, Republican House Speaker Will Weatherford, said, "I don't think we need to change the rules of the game, I think we need to get better," TPM reported.

Via Talking Points Memo and Politico
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  • Knightkore
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    Since progressive liberals like to "fiddle" with the numbers of our economy and other numbers with "creative" math....and since they have learned the numbers stacking game for getting electoral votes....it's time to equalize the playing field and "fiddle" with the numbers....using their "creative" math....
  • frigginhell
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    Had the proposed legislation in Virginia been in effect during the last election Obama would have received 4 electoral votes to Romney's 9 in the state. This happening while Obama won the statewide popular vote by over 150 thousand. Boy, you sure are a real fan of democracy, I can tell. Preach on brother man.
    Or we could abolish the electoral college completely. We have the technology to move to a nationwide popular vote winner takes all scenario. But who would want something like that. I'm guessing not the GOP.
    For the record, fuzzy math is something both sides do and have for so long you can't point to who started it and when. The republicans are certainly no saints in cooking the books. I'm guessing not paying for two wars doesn't ring a bell with you all. Remember anything about a prescription drug plan? Yada yada yada, both sides all day long.
  • PoliticalSpice
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    @frigginhell His handle is knightmare, just what the constitution will be reduced to if people like him get their way. Not just on this issue either. Look what bush did with the patriot act, the real ID act, the failure to enforce laws against subprime loans (resulting in taro). That is the type of thing people like them support. The right to vote means nothing to them. They think the whole constitution is the Second Amendment. Just lets hope they keep saying nutty stuff, the kind of stuff that caused two republican senate candidates who were shoo in's to lose, and two other repub senste candidates that had s good shot to loose. The kind of stuff that drove Hispanics to the polls to vote obama in record numbers, the kind of stuff that pushed a larger percentage of women voters toward obama then would other wise have been the case, the kind of stuff that put obama in office for a second term, the kind of stuff that will lose them seat in 2014, and hopefully lose them the presidency in 2016. You know the kind of stuff knightmare likes to write. Knightmare sounds like a republican, but he is really part of a vast left wing conspiracy to keep republicans out of office.
  • jessejaymes
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    Why bother having election at all. One representative from the GOP and one from the DEMS can just cut high card for the presidency. Oh wait, my bad, they don't like taking any chances. Better to just legislate corruption. Well guess what. When the GOP does that in states that will energize the base for the Dems and they'll take over their statehouses and they'll change the law to favor them and then the GOP base will be energized and they take over their state houses again and..........holy crap!!! Cutting cards would be more efficient wouldn't it?
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    woodtick57
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    @Knightmare

    Why not an ultimate fighter cage match? think Romney could havbe taken Obama? Santorum? Gingy? newt? Cain? Perry? Bachmann could possibly have outshrieked him, but earplugs are not against the rules...
  • Knightkore
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    @jessejaymes LOL! And Snooki would be either Secretary Of State or Vice President....ugh....and Honey Boo Boo would be in charge of Agriculture....okay....point taken....
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    Realthinker
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    Talking points memo? That is hardly an objective source of information, so like many of Politix recent topics, I am going to reserve judgement on this one. So much of what Politix has published lately has turned out to have been 'altered' to make a Republican or group of them look bad, and the information is not accurate. Most notable recently? The claim that the father of a Sandy Hook victim was heckled when in fact the video was altered by the news media to dehumanize Republicans. If you can't be honest about your opponent, you haven't got much of a case. Politix engages in what is known as yellow journalism.
  • PoliticalSpice
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    @harold_lloyd More like something he hallucinated. That tea they drink is powerful stuff. Stronger then LSD, hash brownies, coke and herion combined! No drugs used in the 70's came close to altering reality as much as that tea!
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    Realthinker
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    @harold_lloyd I posted the link on the Politix thread about the incident, yes. It has been documented that the video was altered by MSNBC.
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  • No_Bama
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    @Rapn21 It's not my job to prove anything, and I didn't enter anything in to google. Click on the link and you'd know that, it provides all the proof of my claims needed.
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    Raptor
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    GOP Plan to 'Rig' Electoral Votes, what else is new, they can not win any other way with their propaganda so they are planning to steal the next election. They should be tried for treason and disbanded.They are an enemy of freedom and the American way, they are truly evil.
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    PCW
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    This is not change of the electorial college but a variation in how some states decide who votes in the EC. Several states all ready use this system and would put more power in the hands of the people.

    This article is just another example of how journalists are just lying scumbags.
  • jessejaymes
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    Politix is unabashedly left wing. Read the profiles of their senior staff? I don't care for the pro left extremist poster moderation favoritism over everyone else but it is what it is. A web site. They're all biased one way or the other. Middle of the road doesn't sell in America today. Only extremism. Pick a side. What I notice about most comment threads is that right wingers tend to group on liberal sites and left wingers on right wing sites. Because like to fight over the internet. It's anonymous safe and nobody seems to want to sit around chuckling and agreeing with their own kind. We're a nation of bitchers.
  • Denizen_Kate
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    @stepped_in_it - Jesse has already told me that the only cabinet post I'd be qualified for in his administration is Social Secretary. :)
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  • cr8z4amerika
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    Majority is not supposed to rule in a republic such as the U.S. especially in states that have very large dense cities. Just look at the California electoral map...most of the state tends to be red while the 2 heavily dense cities (SF & LA) are blue.
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    AceLuby
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    I don't agree w/ adding more benefits to gerrymandering districts, but I agree w/ the states rights to determine how they will split up their electoral votes. Since I don't live in any of the states it is none of my concern how they divvy up their electoral votes.
  • harold_lloyd
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    The thing is, people have started to catch on.

    If you feel like you need to cheat, then it's pretty much an admission that your ideas can't stand by themselves.
  • PoliticalSpice
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    @No_Bama Typical sore loser. Nutty comments on rape & pregnancy, self deportation, 47% are the reason obama won. By the way, i want to say "thank you" for your help in keeping him in office. Folks like you still haven't figured it out. Keep up the good work. Dems are known for losing campains: carter, mondale, dukakis, kerry. We need your help both in 2014 and 2016, so please , keep up the good work.
  • harold_lloyd
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    The problem with fiddling with the rules just so your side can have an unfair advantage ignores the fact that they won't be in power forever.

    Payback is heck.
  • Jack-Black
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    In the 90's they Gerrymandered congressional districts to ensure blacks would win. James Clybum's district is the perfect example. His district snakes through every minority, slum infested town and neiboorhood in the state.
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    woodtick57
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    sounds like the district Miochele Bachmann barely squeeked a victory out of this last year. stretched across the trailer trash areas of MN to make it the most uninformed, yet most far right district we've ever seen....and afgter her national humiliation, she barely won that district...
  • Jack-Black
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    @woodtick57 Was Rep. Bachmann's district created in the state legislators to give her more than a fair chance to win like Clybum's district?
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    woodtick57
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    The US was never set up as a democracy. glad you finally realized the type of country you live in. next year, in 8th grade civics, you will learn about the balance of power...good luck in your studies young scholar!
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    Hireman
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    I prefer the system be left alone, but this is up to individual states to decide. This is not going to "Rig" anything as the sensationalist title would have you believe. It will modify, for better or worse. The Dems had that lesson taught to them in MA when they changed the law to replace a senator to change the decision from the governor to the people, and a few years later got Scott Brown (not before they tried to change the law AGAIN). But that was the state's right to do that.
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