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With respect to the NPV program to replace the Electoral College with a plurality election by a backdoor "amendment" to the Constitution.
After you consider the program on its merits (which I think are not good) you might want to consider how this would affect presidential elections.”
Here are 2 facts that might be a hint: Eight states and DC have adopted the NPV compact (CA, IL, MA, HI, WA, MD, NJ, DC, VT). In the last five elections every one of those 9 have voted for the same political party.
That is a highly unlikely coincidence. If it were a random choice of (5 times 9) = 45 selections of a binary choice the chances of them coming out the same in all 45 events is less than one in 16 trillion. That is 1 in 16,000,000,000,000.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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And, assuming NPV were in play, there would be a very real possibility that the 8 states YA listed could wake up on Nov 7th 2012 and find themselves “red” states on the electoral vote map. At that point voters in CA and WA would realize that their Democratic votes, through the magic of NPV and the redneck vote in Texas, had been transformed into Republican electoral votes. I predict displeasure.
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