The writer and scientist David Brin discusses this, just with a few more histrionics. http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/01/when-villains-propose-really-good-idea.html
But what would happen is that it throws much greater weight to republican controlled districts (which coupled with the recent sneaky redistricting attempt) makes this a blatant power grab. More on the redistricting coup. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/state-senate-gop-blindsides-democrats-with-redrawn-senate-lines-that-could-reduce-dems-seats/2013/01/21/8b21ed06-6435-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html But in combination with the severe gerrymandering that the Republicans are getting away with in the state, this turns back the voting demographic changes in the state for the last 25 years, effectively guaranteeing a majority of sate electoral votes going to the Republican candidate regardless of the actual outcome. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:27 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Question: What's the difference in apportioning electoral votes like this > by congressional district...vs. just having a straight popular vote??? > > I mean, you keep chopping up the electoral into finer and finer > pieces....eventually you are just left with a single voter. > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Does the Republican Party hate American Democracy so much they want to > > destroy it? This makes me wonder. > > > > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-in-virginia-other-states-seeking-electoral-college-changes/2013/01/24/430096e6-6654-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360434 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
