Does Sup Forums know about this bullshit? The left, in it's unending crusade towards ending federalism, is trying to get state legislators to sign an agreement whereby the state would give all its electoral votes to whatever presidential candidate wins the popular vote.
The states would effectively be willfully surrending their statehood.
Worse yet, it's already passed in a bunch of blue states that represent 61% of the total electoral college votes needed for the agreement to be activated. This is literally a coup by the big population states on the more rural ones.
The resolution is scheduled to be voted on in both Pennsylvania and Michigan at some future date. This is a heads up to any Sup Forumsacks in those states.
Bump. This shit is important. It's gonna gain momentum with leftists as a result of the election.
Jack Rivera
How would it pass?
Republicans will vote against this.
Ethan Myers
Red state legislatures would, yes, but it is important to know that the federal government could not intervene here at all since each state sets the terms of how it rewards it's electoral votes.
Nolan Wood
Holy fuck I must really be on to something, this is getting slid hard.
Owen Anderson
bump
Christopher Cox
If a state is so consistently blue that it would pass this law, like California, what would it really change? Not even Trump could swing California.
This explains it well. You have to understand what the electoral college is there for in the first place.
Ryder Ramirez
bamp
Wyatt Ortiz
>the state would give all its electoral votes to whatever presidential candidate wins the popular vote. Isn't that how it is already?
William Anderson
The candidate that wins the national popular vote gets the electoral votes. Not the state popular vote.
It effectively would turn the election into a single and direct popular election.
Luis Allen
Yes, but they give their votes based on who wins their state's popular vote. I'm assuming the resolution is to change it based on the country's popular vote. For example, Trump won the popular vote in Pennsylvania, so he gets the 20 electors. But if the agreement comes to pass, Clinton will get the Pen electors, because she won (thank to illegals and Cali) the national popular vote.
Ayden Jenkins
This is correct. It undermines the federal system and state power. The architects of this are all progressive Democrat lawyers and they have a lot of money and influence behind this to get it on state legislatures' agendas.
Kevin Walker
This is basically the same shit that happened with the passage of the 17th Amendment that led to direct popular election of US Senators.
Lucas Bailey
That makes no fucking sense, so every election you would get all the electors? That cannot be Constitutional.
Jack Stewart
Bump
The entire american system would be so fucked if this passes
Daniel Cooper
Welp, they already have the whole plan in place to neutralize non urban voters. Fucking hilarious.
This is already on wikipedia with no citation of course >In 2000 and 2016, Democrats won the popular vote but lost in the electoral college, meaning NPVIC would have changed the result of these elections in favour of Democrats had it been in effect.
>Proponents of this position include law professor Jamie Raskin (now U.S. Congressman-elect for Maryland's 8th congressional district), who, as a state legislator, co-sponsored the first NPVIC bill to be signed into law, and law professors Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram Amar, who were the compact's original proponents.
A Jew and a couple of street shitters just stole your voting power. This country is fucking done.
Jack Moore
>post yfw it gets passed but Trump dominates the popular vote in 2020
Adam Walker
Drumpf panic aside, why would a state vote to bind its electors to the national popular vote? They only stand to lose power.
Xavier Cruz
It won't get passed lmao
Carter Bailey
Democrat traitors in the state legislatures.
Adam Clark
This is literally why the 2nd amendment is there.
Zachary James
MI and PA are close to passing it.
Asher White
That's exactly what would happen. It doesn't make sense because it's an underhanded way of getting rid of the electoral college without actually getting rid of it.
Christopher Gonzalez
Doesn't the compact clause specifically stop things such as this from happening?
Grayson Hall
Fortunately Michigan's governor and state legislature is R so it probably won't pass there. PA has a Republican majority general assembly but a Democrat governor.
Benjamin Perez
Every Governor that has signed this shit has been a Democrat. Fucking subversive power play motherfuckers.
Jason Gutierrez
My dream would be to watch this thing pass and have Trump win re-election via the popular vote, then someone would do the math and figure out he would've lost in the electoral college model.
Sebastian Sanders
Yeah for now, they know all they have to do is work those states hard, get some soros machines and some DNC operatives in there and they have it.
Zachary Evans
bump for the president will be decided by government dependants on welfare from now on
Ethan Wood
Unlikely to happen. The electoral college model favors less densely populated states.
Jacob Cook
>hurr durr constitution why are americans so obsessed with this shit?
Ian Wilson
In case you haven't noticed, some of the things crazy SJWs are calling for have only been blocked because of the constitution.
We don't want to end up like Germany where the hate speech laws are so intense someone can take you to court for calling them foolish.
Hunter Johnson
>getting trolled this hard by CTR
Daniel Sanders
bump
Owen Jenkins
It would have been easier for Trump to win the popular vote. What wasn't what either candidate was campaigning for.
Jacob Garcia
>hurr americans do everything stupid and different
Were fucking better because we did it different faggot
