{"id":43511,"date":"2014-04-30T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43511"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:35:03","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-must-never-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43511","title":{"rendered":"Kill National Popular Vote With Greasy Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word is starting to leak out; a number of GOP politicians are flirting with supporting the idea of the National Popular Vote.<\/p>\n

Let me be blunt:\u00a0 This idea must be stomped, and stomped some more, until the convulsions stop.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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)\u00a0 politics.<\/p>\n

The National Popular Vote means that presidential candidates will not, ever, need to campaign in flyover land.\u00a0 They need only to play to the coasts.<\/p>\n

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It completely guts the “protection of minority states” that the Electoral College has given this nation, to its immense benefit.<\/p>\n

Need a reason to oppose it?\u00a0 Here are seven to start with<\/a>, all of them worthy of a rhetorical death sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The campaign to institute it has been sneaky, under the radar, and not a little bit sleazy<\/a>.\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s even sucked in a number of Republicans who should know better.\u00a0 I’m not naming names.\u00a0 But it’s going to happen, sooner or later.<\/p>\n

Republicans:\u00a0 I, for one, will support an NPV supporter about the same time I support a gun controller.\u00a0\u00a0 You support NPV?\u00a0 We’re going to have a pointed <\/em>conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This shall not pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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:\u00a0 This idea must be stomped, and stomped some more, until the convulsions stop.\u00a0 This is an utterly wretched idea, favored by liberal plutocrats with deep pockets to give the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,13,44,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-liberty","category-republicans","category-stupid","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43511"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions\/43521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}