Saturday, February 14, 2015

If the GOP wants to win in 2016, they can

And the Democrats can't stop it.  It was written about recently, too.  What they could do is to get Michigan to opt out of the voting, and have the legislature select the electors to the electoral college.  Since Michigan is a blue state, that would move the electoral vote towards the GOP.  If Michigan isn't enough, you could also do Florida, Ohio and Nevada.  These are controlled by the GOP.

All of this would be quite legal.  There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the President is elected by popular vote.  It's done by the state legislatures and they have provided for this by having the people in the respective states vote for President.  The state legislatures can change this if they wish.

The Democrats will howl, but they cheat anyway.  The downside is that this may turn against the GOP in future years.


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