09.15.11
Making Pennsy more ‘tucky
A GOP to rig Pennsylvania for Rick Perry or whoever gets the GOP nomination is described at Poltico here.
It’s mostly about changing the awarding of electoral votes in the state so that winner no longer takes all. With that eliminated, the GOP candidate splits off electoral votes from the state’s interior under common realization that between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (with the exception of Harrisburg and State College), Pennsyltucky is essentially a white southern red state with no urban centers in voting demographics.
It’s also a tacit endorsement on the use of voter polarization and the idea that an election should be to drive people further apart, to purge the undesirables, rather than unite under one country.
E pluribus unum. F— that shit.
It’s a problem the Democrats and Obama can’t do anything about. The extremists got into power in 2008 because of economic calamity, political weakness and the rage vote. Since then they’ve been using the advantage granted to disenfranchise voters inimical to them.
In Pennsylvania that is a clever plan, essentially one to create an electoral split of the state into two.
Practically speaking, it’s an attempt to use secession to create a 51st state for one day, the election.
On the theocrat, speaking at Liberty State Theocrats College:
Perry, whose grades at Texas A&M were far from sterling, also appeared to push back against those who question the intellect of an animal science major with a transcript peppered with Cs and Ds.
Managing to balance between being a cadet and being a student, preparing for that life in the military while trying to focus on the variety of subjects that would prepare me for life after the military,??? Perry said of his life at Texas A&M. It wasnt always easy. Quite frankly, I struggled with it. I fully admit that.???
[Yeah, being a cadet and an undergrad in a Texas university must be so hard. Cramming the football stadium on Saturdays really cuts into the scholastic endeavors. “Feeds and feeding” was one hella touch course, too.]
Jerry Falwell Jr., the chancellor of the school and the son of its famous founder, spoke admiringly of Perry at a press conference with reporters before the event, calling the governors flirtation with the idea of secession gutsy.???
toto said,
September 16, 2011 at 5:11 pm
A survey of 800 Pennsylvania voters conducted on December 16-17, 2008 showed 78% overall support for a national popular vote for President.
Support was 87% among Democrats, 68% among Republicans, and 76% among independents.
By age, support was 77% among 18-29 year olds, 73% among 30-45 year olds, 81% among 46-65 year olds, and 78% for those older than 65.
By gender, support was 85% among women and 71% among men.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Under National Popular Vote, every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. Every vote would be included in the national count. The candidate with the most popular votes in all 50 states would get the 270+ electoral votes from the enacting states. That majority of electoral votes guarantees the candidate with the most popular votes in all 50 states wins the presidency.
National Popular Vote would give a voice to the minority party voters in each state and district (in ME and NE). Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for. Now they dont matter to their candidate.
With National Popular Vote, elections wouldnt be about winning states or districts (in ME and NE). No more distorting and divisive red and blue state and district maps. Every vote, everywhere would be counted for and directly assist the candidate for whom it was cast.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a states electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support is strong among Republican voters, Democratic voters, and independent voters, as well as every demographic group surveyed in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls in closely divided battleground states: CO 68%, FL 78%, IA 75%, MI 73%, MO 70%, NH 69%, NV 72%, NM 76%, NC 74%, OH 70%, PA 78%, VA 74%, and WI 71%; in smaller states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK 70%, DC 76%, DE 75%, ID 77%, ME 77%, MT 72%, NE 74%, NH 69%, NV 72%, NM 76%, OK 81%, RI 74%, SD 71%, UT 70%, VT 75%, WV 81%, and WY 69%; in Southern and border states: AR 80%,, KY- 80%, MS 77%, MO 70%, NC 74%, OK 81%, SC 71%, TN 83%, VA 74%, and WV 81%; and in other states polled: CA 70%, CT 74%, MA 73%, MN 75%, NY 79%, OR 76%, and WA 77%. Americans believe that the candidate who receives the most votes should get elected.
The bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers, in 21 small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in AR, CT, DE, DC, ME, MI, NV, NM, NY, NC, and OR, and both houses in CA, CO, HI, IL, NJ, MD, MA, RI, VT, and WA. The bill has been enacted by DC (3), HI (4), IL (19), NJ (14), MD (11), MA (10), CA (55), VT (3), and WA (13). These 9 jurisdictions possess 132 electoral votes 49% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
NationalPopularVote.com