I imagine I must have you scratching your heads wondering how the Republican Reich could possibly support the National Popular Vote, since they depend on the Electoral College to circumvent the will of the people. I wasn’t referring to Republican Reich, the Reich on the right that is always wrong. I was referring to the Reich on the left that is always right, Robert Reich.
We must make sure our democracy doesn’t ever again elect a candidate who loses the popular vote. That means making the Electoral College irrelevant.
Here’s how: As you probably know, the Constitution assigns each state a number of electors based on the state’s population. The total number of electors is 538, so any candidate who gets 270 of those Electoral College votes becomes president.
Article II of the Constitution says states can award their electors any way they want. So all that’s needed in order to make the Electoral College irrelevant is for states with a total of at least 270 electors to agree to award all their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
If they do that, then automatically the winner of the popular vote gets the 270 electoral college votes he or she needs to become president…
Inserted from <Robert Reich>
Graphic credit: Daily Trojan
Here’s the video:
Robert didn’t convince me. Click here and here for two earlier examples of my NPV support.
Unfortunately, the NPV is in trouble here in Oregon, because one Democratic Senator has joined the Republicans to hold it up.
I just called his office in Salem.
Please support National Popular Vote.
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
9 Responses to “National Popular Vote for the Reich”
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Signed, and support the National Popular Vote. Will send a note to my senators too.
Thanks, Tom.
I have signed as many petitions for popular vote as I have seen! I am not happy that Obama, or PELOSI (ass) did not go after this, apparently thinking that G.W.Bushit was just a fluke!
While a Constitutional Amendment must be done at the Federal level, this particular strategy depends on individual states signing on … so it really wasn’t Obama’s or Pelosi’s place to go after it. I must also add that a very important part of this strategy requires a provision built right into the state law that establishes for the law not to go into effect until sufficient states to make up 270 electoral votes are signed on. That’s the necessary safety valve. I’ve been signing for it also.
I think Reich knows that the Electoral College isn’t going to be abolished anytime soon and certainly not in this GOP climate when all their gerrymandering, voter suppression and what have you is specifically targeted towards it. So he’s going for the next best thing and tries to make it irrelevant. The next question of course is: how do they get enough states (with 105 electorates) to join in. Those states that have already signed on are blue states. Unless voters turn their states from red to blue from 2018 onward, it is very unlikely that more states will join, as apparently even blue states can go wrong on this.
Thanks all. Hugs.
As JD accurately pointed out, the people mto contact about NPV are your State Governor, Senator and Rep.
The EC was created in a different time when there were great distances, and the population was less educated. It was considered easier to bring a “few representatives” together to complete the vote. But that is not the case anymore. In my mind, the EC really means that only 538 votes are determining the president, not over 300 million people. I do not see the EC being abolished any time soon since it needs so many state ratifications and many of those states are red. The last two cases of the popular vote losers becoming president (Bush and Trump) have been Republican so any attempt to change that will be shot down in flames. The GOP will not give up power easily. Reich makes sense to me.
I agree.
Well, and this is why it is so important to at lease be aware and if possible help campaign at the state-legislature level. And that is also why so many Democrats are so ecstatic with our string of special election victories, small though it still is, in turning seats red to blue in STATE legislatures. I think it can be done – but not without more work than just crossed fingers.
It’s easy to think a state is red because reds are in the governors’ mansion and are the majorities now in Congressional delegations. But that doesn’t mean there may not be more blue-leaning than red-leaning voters in some of them, maybe many of them.
I agree. Gerrymandering unfortunately suppresses the strength of the blue vote.