Oddball
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Man, some jokes actually write themselves!The GOP "Genius" plan to beat Obama is to.........nominate a candidate!!
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Man, some jokes actually write themselves!The GOP "Genius" plan to beat Obama is to.........nominate a candidate!!
In 1800, when some states actually divvied up their electoral votes like this, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Monroe with his thoughts about the relative fairness of vote-split plans:
Jefferson didn't hate the idea of assigning electoral votes by district. "To state it in another form," he wrote, "it is merely a question whether we will divide the United States into sixteen or one hundred and thirty-seven districts. The latter being more chequered, and representing the people in smaller sections, would be more likely to be an exact representation of their diversified sentiments." The problem: If every state didn't divide its votes this way, the system would be a mess, random and unfair. "Representation of a part by great, and part by small sections, would give a result very different from what would be the sentiment of the whole people of the United States, were they assembled together."All agree that an election by districts would be best, if it could be general, but while ten States choose either by their legislatures or by a general ticket, it is folly and worse than folly for the other six not to do it. In these ten States the minority is certainly unrepresented, and their majorities not only have the weight of their whole State in their scale, but have the benefit of so much of our minorities as can succeed at a district election. This is, in fact, ensuring to our minorities the appointment of the government.
Blast from the past time.
Pennsylvania's Electoral College reform plan: dastardly, or just dumb? - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine
Obama is authoritarian? Unbelievable. Liberals are corporatist.? Pub dupes!!!
Obama is authoritarian? Unbelievable. Liberals are corporatist.? Pub dupes!!!
By Nick Baumann
If Pennsylvania Republicans and their buddies in other states execute a plan to change election rules, Obama has a one-way ticket to Losertown.
Republican state legislators in Pennsylvania are pushing a scheme that, if GOPers in other states follow their lead, could cause President Barack Obama to lose the 2012 electionnot because of the vote count, but because of new rules. That's not all: There's no legal way for Democrats to stop them.
The problem for Obama, and the opportunity for Republicans, is the electoral college. Every political junkie knows that the presidential election isn't a truly national contest; it's a state-by-state fight, and each state is worth a number of electoral votes equal to the size of the state's congressional delegation. (The District of Columbia also gets three votes.) There are 538 electoral votes up for grabs; win 270, and you're the president.
Here's the rub, though: Each state gets to determine how its electoral votes are allocated. Currently, 48 states and DC use a winner-take-all system in which the candidate who wins the popular vote in the state gets all of its electoral votes. Under the Republican planwhich has been endorsed by top GOPers in both houses of the state Legislature, as well as the governor, Tom CorbettPennsylvania would change from this system to one where each congressional district gets its own electoral vote. (Two electoral votesone for each of the state's two senatorswould go to the statewide winner.)
More: The GOP's Genius Plan to Beat Obama in 2012 | Mother Jones
You guys just lost a seat that has been safely Democrat for 90 Years, By 11 points.
I don't think we even need a plan to Defeat Obama, his star has fallen.
I am still trying to find the one ONE jobs bill the republicans even attempted to pass.
ONE!
??
yes, bush and Cheney are out of office.. everything else is cake.
Here's the strategy
Are you better off now then you were 3 years ago?
Right...The Bushies knew ahead of time exactly which voting machines that they and their minions from Diebold needed to manipulate.Kerry won Ohio in 2004.
Don't the wackaloon conspiracy theories ever get a tad old?
if Lincoln were alive today his size14's would be square in the ass the party.Rules mean nothing to the GOP. If they can't win fairly - change the rules. Right out of Karl Rove's playbook.
why do u think Lincoln left the republican party?
I am still trying to find the one ONE jobs bill the republicans even attempted to pass.
ONE!
??
Im still trying to find out why there are people like you who think Government should do everything for you including wipe your @$$.
if Lincoln were alive today his size14's would be square in the ass the party.Rules mean nothing to the GOP. If they can't win fairly - change the rules. Right out of Karl Rove's playbook.
why do u think Lincoln left the republican party?
if Lincoln were alive today his size14's would be square in the ass the party.Rules mean nothing to the GOP. If they can't win fairly - change the rules. Right out of Karl Rove's playbook.
why do u think Lincoln left the republican party?
The GOP's "genius" plan to defeat Obama is simply to talk about Obama's abysmal economic record.
there is going to be massive cheating on the right this time.
every time they get caught the media shys away from the story
there is going to be massive cheating on the right this time.
every time they get caught the media shys away from the story
there is going to be massive cheating on the right this time.
every time they get caught the media shys away from the story
This isnt fantasy hour.
Democrats are the ones with the rich histroy of voter fraud. A fact you can not refute.