With their new trifectas in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada, Democrats could sign onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states give their electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote. All five of those states haven’t yet signed; the 19 that have possess 222 of the 270 votes needed to win the presidency. The additional states would activate the Compact. Some states might decline, bellyaching over losing their place of prominence in picking the president, but that would be irritatingly myopic: of the five presidents who won while losing the popular vote, four were Republicans.
Talk about historic.
Could? Sure.
Would? Absolutely not.
Jeffries and shumer would never allow it. I’d be surprised if they would allow citizens united repeal to pass or banning Congress from holding stocks to pass.
Tbf, the title is talking about the interstate popular vote compact, which is state legislation to assign electoral college votes according to the popular vote result, if the signatories have a collective majority of them. So technically this isn’t landing on Schumer or Jefferies’ desk at any point.
But yes to your point on Citizens united repeal and stock bans and just cautiously optimistic that Jeffries/Schumer will allow anything to change.
Just fix permanent apportionment.
Rural states have the Senate as their check.
Just throw in mixed member proportional districts, ranked choice voting, dissolving the senate, getting rid of citizens united, codifying party politics, and outlawing shareholder primacy.
Should have done it after Gore “lost”.
Best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago. Next best time is now.
Fool me once, shame on you…
I really hope we can’t get fooled again
I’ll believe it when I see it … over the past few decades, the US has shown potential but seldom done anything to change how their government is elected and held in power.
And between the two parties … they are just Lite-Conservatives and Ultra-Conservatives supported by those with the most money and monied interests
Eliminating the Electoral College is a nice idea but that’s like asking your elderly grandfather who can still drive his car to give up driving because he’s too old. Personally, I don’t think major change won’t start happening in the US, if it ever does, until about 20-30 years from now when all these ancient political dinosaurs have died off and newer generations of people start stepping in. America first has to shrug off the stench of 70-80 year old ghouls who want to hold to power for as long as possible.
over the past few decades, the US has shown potential but seldom done anything to change how their government is elected and held in power.
One could argue that Citizens United was a pretty major change in how the government is elected and held in power. Just not in the right direction.
Oh, please please please please!
If we want to continue to hold the branches when the subprotozoa start voting R again because they have the memory of goldfish, then we need to become a true democracy. The EC is not democratic. Every vote should count and be equally as important.
As awesome as it would be, I fear there are too many comfortable with status quo. That being said I’ll keep my fingers crossed
And Texas… what would it take for a state to back out of this? I imagine if a state signed onto this, and their leadership changed back, it would just be a switch flip to undo it.
I already know they are lying
