This is a Big, Big Deal-Josh Marshall Talking Points Memo

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69. This should be a no-brainer

simpler to scoff out of existence than Internet voting, but the point is no evil promoted by the GOP is called out. Only their own degenerating judgment and basic cowardice limits their plans.

The problem with the electoral college that everyone sees is potential injustice and unfairness when the popular vote loser becomes the winner for the status of some incredibly insignificant sovereign state. Seems we are no longer allowed to consider the political manipulation of the electoral math game when it is done by the GOP so bringing up the electoral college is about as easy as proposing gun control or expanding medicare for all.

A "reform" which aggravates all the evils in partisan service should at least have review of constitutionality and the general problem. Instead it is a new lunacy to fight back somehow while blindfolded with one hand tied behind the back- if at all.

The losing voters in each gerrymandered district are now doubly disenfranchised in order to hit the national population. The House of UnRepresentatives might as well have the sole constitutional power to vote for the President. And the whole issue of a locality, any locality modifying national rules to take partisan advantage over the rest of the country is a pretty big loophole to ignore.

Some people here have argued for the proportionial awarding of state electors based on the entire state tally. Somehow they failed to see what would happen if only some states did that to aid a partisan formula. But this GOP proposal is bald-faced crazy and makes the worst happen INSIDE the state itself. States of their choosing of course.

If this was properly countered it should backfire into a new war against their mathematically evident gerrymandering. Instead they launched from their sole refuge of viability to use it as an assault against everything else they don't already own.

This is the same tactic they have the entitlement to get away with in this country, based on absurd but destructive corporate "boldness" initiatives to win the pie contest with mud pies, then throw them in our faces.