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Do they have a formal "compact?" Or are they just copying each other. Seems to me the latter.
Nope, it's the former...
If there were no formal compact, one would expect these state bills to go into effect immediately... not wait until their new "super" state accumulates 270 electoral votes.
Oh Dear me..States Rights advocates going all postal over a state exercising its State's rights. Once again we have sore losing Trumpers going off about Civil War if things don't go their way. Just like Trump himself. Whine, Whine Whine. Threaten. Threaten. Threaten.
What Nevada is doing is what all States should do. We've had two of the worst presidents in history elected because of the electoral college. Time to fix it. The people deserve to elect the president not an anachronistic process meant to protect the slave States.
Hopefully the bill passes.
blah blah blah. What we have here are losers who want to change the rules. That's it. Whatever you got from Buzzfeed or Raw Story is a steaming pile.
Are you a Constitutional Attorney? This will go to the courts and be overturned. Watch. States can not disenfranchise their voters in this way to circumvent the Constitution.
Disenfranchisement and the nullification of the popular vote is a result of the Electoral College. Not the other way around. It is time to do away with this anti-democratic anachronism.
One person, one vote. No votes are more equal than others.
The role of how electoral votes are determined was left to each state. It has always been that way. That is why states have different ways of determining who gets what votes. Now Trumpers do not like it when states modify the way it counts its votes the way they want it ti be and, therefore, want federal intervention. Hypocrisy at its finest.
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The idea is Constitutional, and no, such thing would not lead to the country to break apart. As a matter of fact, the country is now more broken and divided than it has ever been thanks to the idiot in the WH.
No, it's broken because some people can't accept that they lost. You guys really expected Her to win, and you're still in shock.
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The minority left continues to move the goal post and expect the rest of us to blindly follow along and do as we're told. This is not going to end well if they continue on this course.
Minority left? There are more people registered as Democrats than as Republicans in this country
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Where did you see that?
NYC, and L.A. should NOT dictate to the entire U.S. The Electoral College was put in place, and has remained for our entire existence as a Constitutional Republic. There is a good reason it is there, and if people want to get rid of it, they should move to amend the Constitution. The Constitution has been amended many times before. If enough people want it changed it can be changed legally.
You need to go back to math class, Greater NYC and Greater LA combined have only like 12% of the country's population
This is nothing more than an attempt to stop Trump from winning in 2020. Its irresponsible, dangerous and It will eventually lead to succession. Our founding fathers knew what they were doing “leave it alone”.
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It’s worked fine for over 200 years and since Hillary lost its now an 18th century convoluted formula.
Actually many people had a problem with it when Hayes and W won the EC but lost the popular vote as well
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