Comments on: Jefferson’s informed electorate

By: Al Ward

Al Ward — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 05:30:12 +0000

Jorg, it is easy to see why Progressives would support NPVIC. That way they would be able to bully the other 47% of the population into paying for their misguided attempts to make the fairytale dreams and Wishful Thinking of the left to come true. Jefferson was right.

By: Jorg

Jorg — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:57:17 +0000

In reply to Al Ward.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of the US states and the District of Columbia to award all their respective electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The compact is designed to ensure that the candidate who wins the most popular votes is elected president, and it will come into effect only when it will guarantee that outcome. As of December 2017, it has been adopted by ten states and the District of Columbia. Together, they have 165 electoral votes, which is 30.7% of the total Electoral College and 61.1% of the votes needed to give the compact legal force.
If this had been in effect for the 2000 election, neither George W. Bush, nor Donald Trump would have been elected president. Let’s look forward to 2020, – which symbolizes clear-sightedness!
Imagine what a better world we would have had without the last two Republicans in the WH, and imagine the savings, in life, structural damage, moral decay, environment, and world respect.

By: Al Ward

Al Ward — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:26:54 +0000

I was interested Jorg, to see that you managed to have this particular blog entry published in the San Mateo Times as a letter to the editor. Congratulations, it drew comments.
Here is my comment:
Jefferson was right!
That is why the U.S. Senate was set up with two seats per state, regardless of the state’s population. That arrangement helps prevent bullying by the bigger states of the less populated ones. To some extent that is also true of of the Electoral College arrangement, as illustrated by the last presidential election.
Al Ward