Romney wins popular vote, but Obama wins Electoral votes?

[mudwhistle]

Happened in 2000, Gore won by a half a million votes but republicans didn't seem to bitch about it then, maybe this time they will get behind efforts to circumvent the electoral college on a state-by-state level.

This is yet another attempt at voter-suppression.

 

[Katzndogz]

Since the Gore game, 9 states including California have enacted the National Popular Vote act in which distribution of who gets the electoral votes depends on who gets the popular vote.

Democrats can WISH that obama could win the electoral vote, but not if states like Maine, which is a popular vote state, California which is also, and 7 other states get suddenly jerked out of obama's vote and shuffled into Romney's.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Happened in 2000, Gore won by a half a million votes but republicans didn't seem to bitch about it then, maybe this time they will get behind efforts to circumvent the electoral college on a state-by-state level.

not really. If there is anyone that abides by the constitution it would be Mitt Romney

 

[occupied]

That's odd. I don't see any list of Democrat names there. I see a link that anyone could have found...but no names.

States enacting legislation include:
1 Maryland 10 April 10, 2007
2 New Jersey 14 January 13, 2008
3 Illinois 20 April 7, 2008
4 Hawaii 4 May 1, 2008
5 Washington 12 April 28, 2009
6 Massachusetts 11 August 4, 2010
7 District of Columbia 3 December 7, 2010
8 Vermont 3 April 22, 2011
9 California 55 August 8, 2011

Republicans have labeled such efforts as urban power grabs. I am beginning to see that you just like to argue in spite of the fact that you are uninformed and do not like to read.

names3rd person singular present, plural of name
Noun:
A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.
Verb:
Give a name to: "hundreds of diseases with were isolated and named"; "she named the child Edward".

Don't be such a compulsive jackass, it does nothing to make you seem as if you know anything about the topic or are actually interested in it in any way.

 

[occupied]

Since the Gore game, 9 states including California have enacted the National Popular Vote act in which distribution of who gets the electoral votes depends on who gets the popular vote.

Democrats can WISH that obama could win the electoral vote, but not if states like Maine, which is a popular vote state, California which is also, and 7 other states get suddenly jerked out of obama's vote and shuffled into Romney's.

Nothing changes unless a number of states representing a majority of electoral votes moves to join the others in awarding their votes to the popular winner.

 

[Katzndogz]

Happened in 2000, Gore won by a half a million votes but republicans didn't seem to bitch about it then, maybe this time they will get behind efforts to circumvent the electoral college on a state-by-state level.

not really. If there is anyone that abides by the constitution it would be Mitt Romney

I think you misunderstand. The 9 states that have legislated the National Popular Vote Act have done so under their state constitutions as an exercise of state power. All 9 are BLUE states which wanted a hedge against what they saw as the injustice of the Gore loss.

They just could not think past being a democrat and never imagined that a republican would win the popular vote.