Here's how it would be a part of this redistricting: "Under the Priebus plan, electoral votes from battleground states such as Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and others that now regularly back Democrats for president would be allocated not to the statewide winner but to the winners of individual congressional districts. Under the most commonly proposed district plan (the statewide winner gets two votes with the rest divided by congressional district) Obama would have secured the narrowest possible win: 270-268. Under more aggressive plans (including one that awards electoral votes by district and then gives the two statewide votes to the candidate who won the most districts), Romney would have won 280-258."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/172191/rncs-priebus-proposes-rig-electoral-college-so-losing-republicans-can-win# a fairly insidious way to remove our democracy. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's some more detail of the redistricting issue: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/va-republicans-move-on-redistricting-draws-criticism/2013/01/22/f7645ee8-64b9-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html > > So here's how the original idea would work. First, if the electoral votes are > apportioned on the basis of who wins in each senatorial district, and the > republican controlled legislature jiggered the districts to lean heavily > republican then it becomes very difficult if not impossible for a democratic > presidential candidate to win the state, even though he or she may have had > the most votes in the state. > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> The stupid thing is that they could have won the redistricting issue - Bill >> Bolling, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is a republican and maybe would >> have voted for it. - hard to say though given his recent screwing over by >> the party. But coupled with the attempt to change how the electoral votes >> are apportioned, its a sleazy attempt to turn back the clock and make sure >> Virginia stays republican both in the state and the national context. You >> don't need better policies, more involved party members or efforts at better >> governance, you just need sleazy tactics. >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> And that was a dickish move. >>> >>> Not voting for things because they are right, but changing things so your >>> sides win. >>> >>> Ah, where is the honor in politics? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Larry C. Lyons >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > read the second link I gave, but basically the Virginia Senate is evenly >>> > split 20 - 20 for each party. One senator, who was a long time civil >>> > rights >>> > worker was invited to sit near the President in viewing stand at >>> > the inauguration. So while he was in DC the senate republicans had a >>> > slight >>> > majority in the senate. Otherwise this never would have passed. >>> > >>> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:34 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > > >>> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] >>> > > >wrote: >>> > > >>> > > > >>> > > > 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. >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > How can you be both "sneaky" and "blatant" ??? :) >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > Wake up to find out that you >>> > > Are the eyes of the world >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:360448 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
