Maine already splits their votes based on the popular vote. Colorado is proposing the same. The article suggest more states may do the same.
If this is the case then why even have the electoral college? If you split the electoral vote based on the each state's popular vote, it is just like having the winner take all approach in my opinion.
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posted on September 27, 2004 05:32:31 PM new
I'm assuming any changes wouldn't take effect until 2008...looks like the next best thing to a constitutional change. Somebody had their thinkin' hat on.
posted on September 27, 2004 06:06:22 PM new
logansdad is correct. The bill reads that it will be made retro-active. But, according to how the vote there turns out....that alone could delay the final election results...because making it retro-active WILL be challenged in court...immediately.
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And I've also read that if it does pass....then neither dem nor republican will be spending much time or money campaigning in that state.
As for the success of Kerry's anti-democracy protests and his leadership of the VVAW and association with Fonda's Winter Soldier Investigation, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam's most decorated military leader, wrote in retrospect that if not for the disunity created by such stateside protesters, Hanoi would have ultimately surrendered.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
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