Democrats have momentum with Electoral College reform that wd guarantee presidency to popular-vote

[swag]

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/02/democrats-have-momentum-with-electoral-college-reform-that-would-guarantee-presidency-to-popular-vote-winner.html?utm_campaign=oregonian_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

..."A growing number of state legislatures have passed or are pursuing legislation that would award their states’ Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of who wins their particular state. The so-called “National Popular Vote interstate compact” is pushed by the group National Popular Vote, launched in 2006 by computer scientist John Koza.

This month, Colorado is the latest state to pass such legislation, joining California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state. The District of Columbia also has passed a national-vote bill.

The compact would be activated when the states participating in it represent 270 electoral votes, meaning these states would guarantee the presidential popular-vote winner would make it to the White House. The compact is now less than 100 electoral votes short of the goal.

“We actually see this as a constitutionally conservative approach,” Colorado Rep. Emily Sirota told The Associated Press last week when her state’s bill passed."

[DarthDem]

1. Fantastic News

I haven't done the math but I hope they can get to their goal. It seems like most of the states I would suspect of signing have already done so. Oregon should sign. Maybe Nevada, Delaware and New Mexico. They'll need more than that, though. This is a great development, however.

[apnu]

2. Need to pull a few red states and swing states into this.

Nothing's going to change until Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania follow suit.

[still_one]

3. That is the problem. No red state is going to go for that. Why would they? That would reduce

their influence?

[apnu]

5. Nailed it.

Red states are in it for themselves. This is the core characteristic of the Republican and the Conservative. the only way to get these states to work altruistically is to vote the Republicans out. They will never change. America has been held back by this crowd long before this nation was founded. Waiting for them to see the light is folly. They won't we have 250+ years of data telling us this. We had the Civil War because of this. If they have power, they will use it for selfish gain every time. Only defeat at the ballot box will fix this.

[CentralMass]

4. Why does the Democratic party have to manipulate the will of the electorate ?

1. Eliminate superdelegates.
2. Eliminate caucuses.
3. Eliminate any bs like this that alters the results of the voting in any state.