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elocs

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5. What a shocking surprise that we elect our presidents by electoral vote and not popular vote!
Sat May 5, 2018, 10:04 PM
May 2018

But I'm betting that if Clinton had won the presidency with the electoral vote but lost the popular vote we would be hearing very few complaints from the Left about it.

There is no way to enforce it, the regime would fall quickly apart. tritsofme May 2018 #1
My understanding is that it's not a pledge, but a matter of state law unblock May 2018 #2
There is nothing stopping a determined legislature and governor from changing the law tritsofme May 2018 #3
Sure bad things might happen. Voltaire2 May 2018 #4
Just pointing out that such a pact would be inherently unstable and likely to fail. tritsofme May 2018 #7
Which won't happen. Voltaire2 May 2018 #8
Doubtful. tritsofme May 2018 #9
Less doubtful by far than an amendment. Voltaire2 May 2018 #21
In the sense that it is less doubtful we will send men back to the moon by the end of the year tritsofme May 2018 #22
Its a nice idea... SkyDaddy7 May 2018 #18
If we take back enough state legislatures and governorships Tiggeroshii May 2018 #29
They actually voted to do so a few hours before the SCOTUS decision. This is a part of history stevenleser May 2018 #10
State legislatures can change how their electors are awarded at any time, a state law would not stevenleser May 2018 #34
What a shocking surprise that we elect our presidents by electoral vote and not popular vote! elocs May 2018 #5
No but the right would be screaming their fool bloody heads off Volaris May 2018 #17
"the right would be screaming their fool bloody heads off" elocs May 2018 #23
Sadly, all the states who have signed on to this are Blue States oberliner May 2018 #6
The blue state have the largest populations, BigmanPigman May 2018 #11
Which gets us into proportional representation ProudLib72 May 2018 #12
Did you read this article posted on DU this week about BigmanPigman May 2018 #13
Oh, that's a good article! ProudLib72 May 2018 #14
Dividing California would probably make more rural states. Lucky Luciano May 2018 #15
The money guys are already working on it. nolabels May 2018 #20
Even in Missouri the idea of spliting the state up into chunks was or has ... SWBTATTReg May 2018 #28
Yes, but doesn't it hurt us if only the blue states agree to this? oberliner May 2018 #19
More to the point, it can't help us. We would be in a situation where... stevenleser May 2018 #24
That is my concern also oberliner May 2018 #25
I have a friend in the Texas legis who submits this bill every session Gothmog May 2018 #31
What a messy, messy way to run a superpower. BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #16
If every state agreed all elections would be unanimous MichMan May 2018 #26
As long as it's just blue states signing up, it doesn't really make any difference. Captain Stern May 2018 #27
The vote of every American citizen should count equally, Gothmog May 2018 #30
The day a State gives its EVs to a candidate that didn't win the majority of the State's votes... brooklynite May 2018 #32
This could go sour quick madville May 2018 #33
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