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Oh………..moderate Republicans must be sooooooooo proud of
their party.
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What would Lincoln have thought about this?
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And these folks are supposed to be the ultra-moral, bible
thumping “Thou Shalt Not Steal” people.
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That’s what happens when corporate American takes over
your party – you start acting like an immoral corporation
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Don’t ciminals go to jail for this – oh no, it’s just
computer activists that go to jail.
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And the RWNJ’s are pissing and moaning about getting
their gun rights modified?
Maybe that is on purpose – big brouhaha to keep our eyes
off the prize – future presidential elections.
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Must be miserable to exist in this world – when you KNOW,
you KNOW deep in your heart, the only way, ONLY WAY, you can win is to
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"Once again they're changing the rules because they lost the game - that's what this boils down to,"
said Rep. Jon Richards (D-Milwaukee).
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett
recently told supporters in an email they need to halt any attempt to change
how states give out their electoral votes.
"The Republicans want to rig
the game. They know what they're doing and we need to stop them," he wrote
in his email.
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Complete loss of moral compass.
If this system had been in place in 2012, Obama would still have had his close-to 5,000,000 popular vote margin,
but instead of winning the electoral vote by 332 to 206, he would have lost by
258 to 280.
Win by 5 MILLION popular Votes
Lose because Republicans rigged the electoral vote.
The new system would allow Republicans to consistently win electoral votes (and quite possibly a majority
of electoral votes) from states like Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
and Virginia, regardless of whether they win the statewide vote.
All five of these states went for
Obama in 2012. Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have consistently gone blue
at the presidential level, and Virginia is tilting in that direction, which
would make winning any electoral votes in these states a victory for the GOP.
Despite their 2012 losses,
Republicans continue to hold control of the state legislature and the
governor’s mansion in all five of the states listed above. That means, with
enough political will, they may be able to push through such changes.
… if some Republicans had their way in changing how electoral votes are allocated, Obama might have been headed
back to Chicago while Mitt Romney began his first term, despite receiving just
47 percent of the votes, nearly 5 million fewer than Obama.
The GOP idea is to allocate most
electoral votes by congressional districts, rather than giving all to the
statewide winner. That sounds logical, and it might be, if those congressional
district lines were fairly drawn.
Pennsylvania State Senate
Government Committee, October 4, 2011
Testimony
G. Terry Madonna
I am delighted to have this
opportunity to testify today before the State Senate Government Committee
relative to the proposal to change the way in which candidates to be
presidential electors are selected by the voters in Pennsylvania. The proposal
before the committee would change the method from the current winner-take-all
method for choosing electors to electing them out of congressional districts—
Historical look at the effect of
choosing electors out of congressional districts:
Beginning in 1960, if one elector
had been chosen out of each congressional district in every state, two election
outcomes would have been different. In 1960, Nixon would have defeated Kennedy
by 28 electors (Kennedy won by 84) and in 1976 Ford and Carter would have tied,
269 to 269. Carter won by 57.
The Republicans new math.
The Republicans new way of counting electoral votes:
Kennedy Presidency- GONE
Carter Presidency – GONE
Obama Presidency – GONE
Evidently Democrats don’t deserve a presidency.
They screwed with re-districting – AND GOT AWAY WITH IT
The highly partisan American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was also involved in redistricting. It
pushed redistricting approaches spearheaded by the former lawyer for the national
Republican Party, Mark Braden, and hosted a special conference call with that
partisan lawyer to advise ALEC legislators on redistricting. It does not appear
Democrats were invited to attend this secret meeting.
Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin
were sharply criticized for developing the maps under a veil of secrecy and
shutting the public out of the process, with a court that heard a redistricting
challenge describing the process as "shameful," "sharply
partisan," and "needlessly secret."
In a Jan. 4 memo, the Republican
State Leadership Committee, which seeks to elect state-level Republicans, said
it was “no accident” Republicans held the House despite getting fewer votes.
By focusing substantial resources
on the 2010 REDistricting Majority Project, “Republicans held majorities in
two-thirds of the states where the state legislature played a role in the
redistricting process, and the impact of that control can be seen clearly in
the 113th Congress,” the group said.
Will they get away with it again???????????
Heck predicts that it "would
ultimately hurt [Republicans] to try something so blatantly unfair" as
changing how electoral votes are assigned for partisan gain. "It would set
off a firestorm of protest that we didn't see for gerrymandering and voter
ID," he said.
"But if you have the votes you can ram anything through the
legislature."
Democrat Party – President?
You don’t need no stinking Democrat President!
Forgetaboutit!!!
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