Word is starting to leak out; a number of GOP politicians are flirting with supporting the idea of the National Popular Vote.
Let me be blunt: This idea must be stomped, and stomped some more, until the convulsions stop.
This is an utterly wretched idea, favored by liberal plutocrats with deep pockets to give the nation’s population centers a stranglehold on presidential (and eventually, all) politics.
The National Popular Vote means that presidential candidates will not, ever, need to campaign in flyover land. They need only to play to the coasts.
It completely guts the “protection of minority states” that the Electoral College has given this nation, to its immense benefit.
Need a reason to oppose it? Here are seven to start with, all of them worthy of a rhetorical death sentence.
The campaign to institute it has been sneaky, under the radar, and not a little bit sleazy. The supporters are clearly trying to gull a mass of low-information voters (swaying them with talk of “majority rule”) without fully airing out the consequences.
It’s even sucked in a number of Republicans who should know better. I’m not naming names. But it’s going to happen, sooner or later.
Republicans: I, for one, will support an NPV supporter about the same time I support a gun controller. You support NPV? We’re going to have a pointed conversation.
This shall not pass.
Why? Simple Math.
CA, FL, NY, and TX alone don’t have enough voters, even if they all voted…
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NOTE FROM MITCH
I’m normally loath to edit or delete comments.
But this comment apparently came from a ‘bot that is spamming anti-NPV blogs. It’s a stupid SEO trick.
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Kohler and Dog Gone are Liberals who hate the representative government established by the Constitution, in which power is held at the state level, not the national level. They vastly prefer the French model pioneered by Robespierre as implemented by Madame DeFarge. NPV is how they intend to transform the stability of the American government into the chaos of the French.
So the least populous states will still be ignored and voter fraud will freely cross state lines in an effort to “create or save” these “wasted” votes?
“Greasy Fire” is probably the best thing for this National Popular Vote.
National Popular Vote supporters do not believe opponents should share their myths, as supposed fact, without correction.
Back atcha.
the “Kohler” bot’s wordpress script apparently has not been updated to include the results of the 2008 or 2012 elections.
To tell the difference between Conservative and Liberal views of American Constitutional government, ask which phrase is correct: The United States IS going to war, or the United States ARE going to war?
Is this one giant nation in which states are merely incidental political subdivisions, no more significant than watershed districts? Or are we a collection of states connected by a very thin framework of cooperation?
How you view the laboratory of democracy and enumerated powers defines your political worldview which, in turn, guides your public policy preferences.
Cuba has direct national elections. Syria has direct national elections. Russia has direct national elections. Representative democracy is a tool we can use to solve a problem; but I wonder whether Liberals even recognize the problem we’re trying to solve?
With the Electoral College and federalism, the Founding Fathers meant to empower the states to…
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NOTE FROM MITCH
I’m normally loath to edit or delete comments.
But this comment apparently came from a ‘bot that is spamming anti-NPV blogs. It’s a stupid SEO trick.
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The robot stole its last comment from :
http://www.charlesmphipps.com/2013/07/oklahoma-state-senator-rob-johnson.html?showComment=1373664784014#c937288655435167582
THe founders also never meant for t here to be only 2 major parties. You look at how it is set up it is designed to build coalition governments like you see in Israel, Germany, even England now. That doesn’t mean we should suddenly give the green party or libertarians 10% of the house seats.
Kohler, how do you address voter fraud that is known to happen in big cities all throughout the country? At least with the way it is now the fraud can only effect one states electoral votes instead of the entire national election. If Franken Vs. Coleman played out nationwide there would be civil war
Also if you are so damn concerned about the constitution why do you feel the need to do an end run around it instead of getting an amendment through the normal way?
If it were actually true that a presiden…
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NOTE FROM MITCH
I’m normally loath to edit or delete comments.
But this comment apparently came from a ‘bot that is spamming anti-NPV blogs. It’s a stupid SEO trick.
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The U.S. Constitution says “Each State …
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NOTE FROM MITCH
I’m normally loath to edit or delete comments.
But this comment apparently came from a ‘bot that is spamming anti-NPV blogs. It’s a stupid SEO trick.
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I meant to say:
A presidential …
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NOTE FROM MITCH
I’m normally loath to edit or delete comments.
But this comment apparently came from a ‘bot that is spamming anti-NPV blogs. It’s a stupid SEO trick.
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Now we’re getting repeat spam, oh, how desperately these people want to get rid of the electoral college. That alone means we should not only keep it, but strengthen it.
@Kohler: TL/DR
The Kohler-bot is pasting the same comments on many anti-NPV blogs.
Good God, keep the Kohler-bot away from our honest, old fashioned presidential elections.
Amen.
I thought WordPress was a screen against bots like kohler.
One more time.
The Elector…
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NOTE FROM MITCH
I’m normally loath to edit or delete comments.
But this comment apparently came from a ‘bot that is spamming anti-NPV blogs. It’s a stupid SEO trick.
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Mitch-
It’s your blog, but you might want to delete the kohler-bot’s comments. They were posted by a robot. identical plagiarized comments have spammed to conservative blogs in an attempt to game search engines.
Will do.
What other conservative blogs?
This is totally worth a post or two…
You’ll find a bunch of kohler-bot NPV comments here:
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/04/national-popular-vote
I’ve also seen “kohler” comments identical to those posted yesterday on various PJ media sites and Beck’s “Blaze” site.
Wow.
See my latest post.
It’ll be interesting to see what baits the bot.
Maybe the bot needs to see comments on the post? I put one there, just in case. 🙂