We Don't Need No Stinking Constitution
Leave it to a dimocrat-controlled legislature, aided and abetted by the liberal media, to make an end run around the Constitution. The Electoral College - love it, hate it, don't care one way or the other about it - is constitutionally mandated. Don't like it? Then amend the Constitution. What should not be tolerated is California's current effort to "fix" what a bunch of sore losers thinks is broken.
By saying that all of a state's electoral votes will go to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of how that state voted, AB 2948 is simply the first step toward the ultimate goal of doing away with the Electoral College, which has been the goal of dimocrats since 2000. Once that is done, the next step will be to do away with the Electoral College altogether because it is no longer needed. In that event, the Constitution will have been amended outside the proper procedure, which is how dimocrats like to do things.
Before we decide to run roughshod over the Constitution, we should take a moment to remember that it was the State of Tennessee and its 5 electoral votes that really decided the 2000 election. If Al Gore had managed to carry his "home" state, he would not have needed Florida and we could have been spared his national temper tantrum and all its reverberations.
posted by Roxanna Moser @ 11:14 AM
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Actually, Gallup polls since the 1940s have shown large majorities of all Americans (of all political stripes) favor direct election. It was as high as 81% in 1968.
As for the method proposed by the National Popular Vote group, it actually *embraces* the constitutional authority granted to state legistlators by the Founders. It's not an "end run" at all. In fact, the ultimate "end run" would be to amend the Constitution, no?
Finally, keep in mind that if 60,000 voters in Ohio had changed their minds in 2004, John Kerry would have been elected president despite President Bush's 3.5 million popular vote margin.
Moving to direct election is long overdue, as it will make every vote equal and put every state in play. Direct popular election is how we fill every other office in the United States, and for good reason.
Whether or not we move to direct election of presidents is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we are going to do away with the Electoral College - thereby amending the Constitution - using the proper procedure or by going through the back door hoping no one will notice.
Under no circumstances can amending the Constitution using the procedure defined therein be an end run around the Constitution.
If 60,000 more voters in Ohio had voted for Kerry, he would now be in the White House and the war on terror would be over. We would have lost. John Kerry is easily the most pathetic man in politics. He was a coward in Vietnam, and he would be a coward in the White House.
P.S. What is the current polling in favor of direct elections? 1968 was a very long time ago.
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