National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
With all of the recent talk about several blue states considering allocating EC electors by (gerrymandered) congressional districts, I was reminded this morning ofRead More
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I don't think that its legality is beyond question. As I see it, the big problem is the provision in the Constitution that says states can not enter into interstate compacts without the approval of...
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as Chief Justice Hughes remarked, that the constitution means what the court says it means. Using logic, a dubious proposition in the present case, it's hard to see how state laws enacted in...
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Well, there are two things going on here.First, there are a handful of states that have gone blue in recent presidential races but that are internally controlled by Republicans. This of course is...
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would be to allocate the electoral votes in each state in proportion to the popular vote in each state. Of course that's just a hybrid to have the election turn on the popular vote and would require...
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Right. In most cases that would mirror the popular vote. The fact that not every electoral vote represents the same number of voters, due to the varying sizes of states and the distorting effect of...
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RonB52 wrote:I don't think that its legality is beyond question. As I see it, the big problem is the provision in the Constitution that says states can not enter into interstate compacts without...
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RonB52 wrote:But imagine the scenario: Hillary Clinton has won the nationwide popular vote, but Jeb Bush would have won in the EC the way it works right now. The NPVIC states (i.e., the liberal...
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JackD wrote:would be to allocate the electoral votes in each state in proportion to the popular vote in each state. Of course that's just a hybrid to have the election turn on the popular vote...
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Thank you for digging deeper into the language and fact patterns the Supreme Court has given us. It is enlightening.I still think it's not open and shut. Let's pick Nebraska and say it's a...
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It should be a straight popular vote. Problem: it's going to be extremely difficult to get that constitutional amendment passed.
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Also, we tend to frown on Cut & Pastes that are not given proper attributionA...Read More
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We just generally tend to frown on stuff here. ETA: I see that Schmutzie and I use the same method of flagging plagia...Read More
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challenge the ability of Scalia's pen to bloviate.
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JackD wrote:challenge the ability of Scalia's pen to bloviate. Question not, ye mortal, The Pen Of Bloviation.
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RonB52 wrote:Thank you for digging deeper into the language and fact patterns the Supreme Court has given us. It is enlightening.I still think it's not open and shut. Let...Read More
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