Electoral College Reform would have given America a Better Election Day Result For the Nation
Presidents Day is nearing and conservatives will have something to celebrate that day four years from now when the Electoral College is returned to the voters. Currently, there is a movement in motion in several key presidential electoral battle ground states to return constitutional selection of the president to the voters by using congressional district selection of Electoral College electors. This move would even the playing field in presidential campaigns, to be more reflective of the true will of the people of a state, instead of voters being held hostage by the large urban population centers.
Large urban centers typically out vote the majority of congressional district by stealing votes in cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Chicago. This results in state winner-take all electoral votes swinging unfairly and even illegally to a candidate like Barack Obama. In 2008 and 2012, Obama’s Chicago-style thuggish election machine worked to intimidate, manipulate and otherwise steal a presidential election in dozens of precincts in urban areas with impunity.
This process has created a false narrative that America has chosen a left-leaning socialist agenda that gives permission for citizens to be stripped of their Second Amendment gun rights, or states being forced to stand down against illegal aliens taking their health care, jobs and now their rights.
The solution has been clear for many years, and states like Nevada and Maine have already set the pathway toward a more balanced true representation of a state. They have initiated congressional district selection of presidential electors. In these states citizens can select their presidential candidate of choice, without being held hostage to the will of another congressional district or districts.
Currently, there are several states that have launched efforts to create a more fair and balanced Electoral College initiative. Michigan, Virginia, Ohio and Florida are some that are entertaining the idea. Yet their governors are showing timidity in fully embracing this patriotic concept.
Michigan’s governor, Rick Snyder who is up for re-election in 2014, had previously suggested his consideration for the move for voting fairness. Now, according to TPM, he is backing away.
If Snyder and a few other Republican governors are appearing weak in the knees about restoring electoral power to the state voters, this is probably the best time to know this. It gives the conservatives, the Tea Party and other like-minded voters the opportunity to put them on notice: No support for voter rights – No re-election!
Why is this crucial? Think about how the presidential election would have been turned on its head. Obama would have been shown the White House door, if the will of the people had been truly expressed by each congressional district!
In Virginia, Mitt Romney would have beaten Obama 2 to 1, with Romney picky up 9 electoral votes to Obama’s 4 electoral votes. A similar result would have occurred in Ohio, and other key battle ground states. Obama would have had his lease terminated by the true representative vote of America.
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Comment by william f. duryea on February 9, 2013 at 4:06pm It isn't going to make a hill of beans difference to the conservative voter. It will still be an election of fraud. Only difference is that there will be fewer votes to steal. It is all smoke and mirrors folks. With the advent of computorized voting machines the election will be again stolen through computor programs in the machines that throw the election to whom ever. We must get back to paper ballots, as slow as they are in processsing. Sure there were some tads to consider, but don't use tads. I am sorry, but I believe that voting has become a farce. We have lost our voting power to these crooks.
Comment by Barbara Leon on February 8, 2013 at 1:48am Sounds like a great idea and one that is past due.
Comment by David Lininger on February 7, 2013 at 9:24pm "The solution has been clear for many years, and states like Nevada and Maine have already set the pathway toward a more balanced true representation of a state." I believe that should be NEBRASKA and Maine.
"Is it more right to apportion by district with 2 EVs going to the statewide winner or to have it statewide winner take all?" Both Maine and Nebraska provide that the two Electoral College votes that correspond to the Senate go to whichever candidate won the state-wide vote. Each House District goes to the candidate who won that District. That, to me, is the only fair way.
Overall, though, it probably would balance out in the long term. According to one map I saw a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Romney would have won the election had proportional voting been in effect nation-wide. Missouri, my state, has 10 Electoral votes, and I believe we ended up going for Mr. Romney. Under proportional voting, though, he would have gotten only seven or eight of the votes, since Kansas City and St. Louis went for Mr. Obama. I believe that Columbia did, too, but I don't know how large that Congressional District is in comparison to the city population.
Comment by James H .Eblen on February 7, 2013 at 7:12pm Sounds like you may be on to something. Let's flush it out.
Comment by Gail Cohen on February 7, 2013 at 5:48pm Whitehorse may be right - California had reapportionment - and it favored the Dems even more - the Electoral College was set up to prevent mob rule - - and yet it seems that is what we are getting under the current system (I am confused on what is better in this case)
Comment by Linny Redd on February 7, 2013 at 5:44pm This is something I have barked about for the last several elections! It's just plain wrong!
Worse, gerrymandering is crooked and should have been outlawed. I hope this Country
can survive the corruption until we do get reform! Even with the voting FRAUD I,too, believe Romney would have won the election had the electorial college been a "CLEAN" representation!
Comment by PC Bob on February 7, 2013 at 4:25pm What's needed here is for the states, ALL of them, to divide up the electoral college votes according to the popular vote. If the popular vote shows 55% voted for one candidate, that candidate gets 55% of the electoral college votes. The other candidate gets the rest. Or, in cases where a splinter party gets a few votes, then they would get their share, too. This way, at the final counting, in December, each party gets the number of delegates they recieved in each state. This is the only fair way to do it. Any other way is just gerrymandering. The cities are all liberal and there's no reason for them to run the whole country. MOST of America is conservative.
Comment by Debrajoe Smith-Beatty on February 7, 2013 at 4:23pm Good article and how true.
Comment by Whitehorse on February 7, 2013 at 3:57pm Observation: We must never allow the electoral college to be removed & the presidential election be decided on popular vote - that would mean wholesale fraud, & major metro areas voting at 300% capacity to elect the president.
Question: Should the apportionment of electors be something continued to be decided state by state, or should it be decided on a federal level? I'm sure Democrats would want Texas to change & apportion by district while keeping California winner take all, & Republicans would want the opposite.
Another Question: What is the right thing? Is it more right to apportion by district with 2 EVs going to the statewide winner or to have it statewide winner take all?
Comment by Cracker on February 7, 2013 at 3:40pm Already sent emails, made many phone calls even to federal elections committee, and the department of injustice (only on a recommendation from the FEC). When one has to deal with the feds & folks like frankinstein & boxer nothing JUST ever gets done. I've said it many times and I'll say it again. We need to remove the federal government from the picture, take away their pay, wealth, & bene's and give the power to the states. If the states refuse to support AMERICA then we remove them, their pay, wealth, and bene's! Pissing in the wind is not going to correct the problem. These global communists are only going to back off when we corner them. It is time for a REVOLUTION not electoral BS!
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