Remember: Republicans have only won the popular vote ONCE in the last 30 years!

[Merrill]

Abolish the Electoral College…it DOES NOT allow for every vote to count....

https://archive3.fairvote.org/reforms/national-popular-vote/the-electoral-college/problems-with-the-electoral-college/

NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN BECAUSE THE GOP HAS BEEN SUBVERTED BY ALEC!!!!
Corporate Rule
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/alec-the-voice-of-corporate-special-interests-in-state-legislatures/#Voter

=== Pay close attention to this 24/7 organized activity:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/koch-brothers-candidate-training-recruiting-aegis-strategic

ALEC GOP are CLINGING to the Electoral College. They know it’s their ONLY shot at winning the presidency! The GOP has not won a popular vote in decades.



Remember: Republicans have only won the popular vote ONCE in the last 30 years!



As long as the Electoral College stays in place, it’ll continue to hold a stranglehold on our democracy!


[Mike Nelson]

1. Well...

... the Electoral College gave us George W Bush and Donald J Trump... note how the Media fails to focus on the EC. They even say things like "The American people voted for Trump." No, they did NOT. It is correct to say he was ELECTED, but he did not "win" the vote.

[sunonmars]

2. and they will continue to lose by greater numbers until the EC is tipped out.

It needs to go. The EC was useful in its time but no longer is democratic.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. The electoral college was established in a time when the speed of communication was

limited to how fast a horse could travel.

[brooklynite]

4. Remember: we don't vote based on popular vote. And we CAN'T abolish the Electoral College

If you have a strategy to get 75 States to agree, let us know.

(nb: the interstate public vote compact isn't a solution either)

[gab13by13]

5. You are correct about "Republicans"

but Magats are working feverishly to establish minority rule.

[Walleye]

6. I guess populism isn't very popular

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. What about it?

Remember: Republicans have only won the popular vote ONCE in the last 30 years!

That and four dollars will get you a cup of coffee.

[Vinca]

8. The minority ruling the majority is not democracy. I agree with you completely.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. If only that mattered

[Emile]

10. It is time for it to go, but how do they do it?

[mvymvy]

11. National Popular Vote

State legislators in states with 75 more electoral votes are needed to enact the National Popular Vote bill.

We need to support election officials and candidates and lawmakers who support voting rights and respect election results and facts.

To abolish the Electoral College would need a constitutional amendment, and could be stopped by states with less than 6% of the U.S. population;
[The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress 100 years ago.]
There have been hundreds of unsuccessful proposed amendments to modify or abolish the Electoral College - more than any other subject of Constitutional reform.

In 1969, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 338-70 to require winning the national popular vote to become President.
3 Southern segregationist Senators led a filibuster to kill it.

Instead, we need to support state legislators throughout the country who support the National Popular Vote bill.
It simply again changes state statutes, using the same constitutional power for how existing state winner-take-all laws came into existence in 48 states in the first place.
[Maine (in 1969) and Nebraska (in 1992) chose not to have winner-take-all laws]
The bill will guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in the country.
The bill changes state statewide winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), without changing anything in the Constitution, using the built-in method that the Constitution provides for states to make changes.

States are agreeing to award their 270+ Electoral College votes to the winner of the most popular votes from all 50 states and DC, by simply again changing their state’s law.

All votes would be valued equally as 1 vote in presidential elections, no matter where voters live.

NationalPopularVote.com/write