Showing posts with label National Popular Vote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Popular Vote. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2025

Speaking of serving Mammon, the price of Trump's Golden Visa has just been cut by 80%, but the workaround scheme to let rich people cut in line may backfire

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And you thought only National Popular Vote liberals were capable of end-runs.   The global wealthy are lining up for Trump’s $1 million Gold...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is correct: Elon Musk is an unelected interloper, with no authority and no legitimacy who makes a mockery of the appropriations process

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   Musk exercises nonexistent dictatorial line-item-veto powers over spending and personnel as a "super cabinet" official who was ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

All this realignment of the country to the GOP talk has been BS: Trump has now won only by a plurality, and the GOP House majority could well end up at a mere 220-215

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 It was no Red Wave, and that fool Trump just had to poach from what little he got.  

Trump is officially below 50% at Real Clear Politics

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  Harris/Walz 48.3% (226) Trump/Vance 49.9% (312)
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Trump is down to 50.1% in the popular vote

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 People say it doesn't matter. It doesn't, except psychologically, especially to Democrats who want to eliminate the Electoral Colle...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Couldn't have said it better myself . . . about you

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  Raskin: "Authoritarian And Fascist Tactic" To Try To Confuse Everyone About What Happened On January 6th To Raskin we owe the or...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

How the popular vote works

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  Look, as I blow this feather from my face, And as the air blows it to me again, Such is the lightness of you common men. -- William Shakes...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Four true words

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 Trump lacked the discipline.        Stated here . That's still the fundamental problem, but that's been the case from the beginning...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

It's odd how this guy never mentions the post-election shenanigans which DEFINE the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would REQUIRE faithless votes in the Electoral College

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Time To Eliminate the Possibility of Faithless Electors : In spite of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Chiafalo v. Washington that states can...
Monday, September 27, 2021

The National Popular Vote Compact, an end run around the US Constitution which also creates faithless electors, is actually supported in Michigan by stupid Republicans and a Hillsdale college instructor

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My lunatic former state senator, Dave Hildenbrand, was the chief Republican sponsor of the compact in 2018. He's a lobbyist now. The for...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Nevada Governor VETOES bill joining National Popular Vote Compact

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Good for him. Sisolak vetoes bill that would pledge Nevada's support to winner of national popular vote, reject Electoral College...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

National Popular Vote to become law in Nevada, making it 15 states and DC trying for an end run around the Electoral College

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Nevada passes National Popular Vote bill in bid to upend Electoral College : The compact would take effect after states totaling 270 el...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

National Popular Vote passes in Colorado: First you drug the people, then they give away their freedom without a care

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You lose your country by degrees. Colorado is the 12th to go. Colorado joins effort to elect presidents by popular vote, go around Elec...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Rush Limbaugh claims to be the cutting edge of societal evolution, but can't help a caller from Colorado on the National Popular Vote

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It's a frickin' end run around the constitution, but Limbaugh just yammers "I'll have to look into it". Pathetic....
Friday, November 16, 2018

Liberal math: In ME-2 the Democrat came in second but wins the seat anyway

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This is how the National Popular Vote will work in the case of president if states adopt the kind of legerdemain citizens of Maine adopte...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Reince Priebus Is An Electoral College Fiddler. Get Rid Of Him.

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We already have fiddling going on with the National Popular Vote campaign. Now it turns out Reince Preibus, RNC chairman, favors a form of...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

It's Democrats Who Overwhelmingly Hate The Electoral College

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The reason Democrats hate the Electoral College is that the Electoral College gives too much power to small population states, which sometim...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

California Becomes Ninth State Seeking To Overthrow Electoral College

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The story, reported here , reveals that the anti-constitutional National Popular Vote initiative had its origin in California: California...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

National Popular Vote Virus Spreads to Vermont

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The whole point of writing the constitution to allocate two senators each to the States was to reassure the smaller ones by population that ...
Monday, August 2, 2010

A Rival Electoral College

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As we pointed out previously , the National Popular Vote Campaign is an extra-constitutional end run around the constitution's designate...