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Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College
Zebano writes "Since changing the US constitution is too much work, the Iowa senate is considering a bill that would send all 7 of Iowa's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in a presidential election. This would only go into affect after enough states totaling 270 electoral votes (enough to elect a president) adopted similar resolutions."
Iowa's basically getting set to disenfranchise an entire state of voters.
They might as well go back to letting the state senate elect the federal senators.
Of course sending electors to the college based on popular vote within the state would make far too much sense.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Well, one thing I can assure you is that your vote will NOT count in Iowa, should this bill pass into law. The Iowa tally is disregarded in favor of the wishes of voters elsewhere. How could this possibly be seen as a good idea other than freeing national campaigns to drop all pretenses of concern and thoroughly ignore Iowans next time around and merely focus on the "wants" (welfare/handouts/bailouts/bribes/etc) of the big population centers?
Those who rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul. This bill provides a neat mechanism for getting Peter's support, too.
I am baffled why anyone other than those in the aforementioned population centers would support it.
Effect, not affect, goddamn it!
The perfect sig is a lot like silence, only louder
Guess what? Normal people who aren't entitled autistic libertarian faggots don't really give a shit. Go complain about purestrain gold on the stormfront forums, or wherever it is you conspiracy theorist Paulites schedule your circlejerks to take place.
Well, you don't have slavery anymore, something which would disgust the founding fathers.
Yes, we the people are idiots, and democracy is a terrible idea. Bring back an oligarchy, it works for Russia.
Voting requires registering to make sure you only vote once ;-)
Unless you're willing to be bussed in to Ohio to illegally vote there, or registered by ACORN.
Massive Vote Fraud? That's CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! ALL HAIL DEAR LEADER OBAMA! HEIL!
can someone, anyone, please mod this moron down? obvious troll is obvious...
This is an example of the politics of small things at work. A little here, a little there, to widely apart that the populace notice what the powers that be are up to.
Between the Iowa changes and the White House census power grab it looks like the Dems are rigging it so they're in power a long time. It's obvious really. The 'big cities' that win through the electoral college change are increasingly populated with grateful new voters. So the slide here that started across the Atlantic begins.
Mired in ignorance and concern for their immediate sphere, the populace won't realise until it's too late that an authoritarian nanny government has sprung up on them, and it's not too far then to a totalitarian one.
Just as with the EU, the NAU is forming. The SAU, African Union and Kevin Rudd's calls for an Asia-Pacific Union are busy building the one world government. Having deliberately collapsed the existing financial system they're busy building the new world financial system to support the above as we speak. No more nations. Just NWO.