National Popular Vote compact gains momentum after midterm statehouse wins
A fun side effect of this Democratic surge is that because a few states now have a Dem trifecta in their state, we might actually get to fix the Electoral College. So the elections that are dictated by 80k people, gone. newrepublic.com/post/217594/...
Greg Pak407Suddenly realizing that eliminating the Electoral College would mean people miiight think of other people as PEOPLE more, and less as numbers stacked up in different state-shaped boxes.
Erin Biba175What are the chances there’s actually the will and the guts to do this? I wish I had the kind of faith necessary in the Dem party to be excited by this.
Joe Henderson53What on earth would an election look like without the Electoral College? Every campaigning strategy would have to be rethought. That... sounds kind of exciting.
Aden Ng8Push for this, then for ranked choice. That's the long term impact thing.
Renée the Wicked Witch of Woke ✨️ 🇺🇦 ♿️ 🖇7Good. I don't understand why the electoral college exists anyway.
Kari | ❄️Cryo Support Character❄️2there's no "fixing" the electoral college. democracy that comes with a veto board built 250 years ago isn't democracy. it isn't "we the people as permissible by these specific rich old white cunts who actually decide everything regardless of what we actually want". tear it the fuck down.
This is why I think there is a real chance that we get the National Popular Vote Compact.
Will Thomas22I think we could get an honest-to-goodness constitutional amendment.
Joel4One thing is is going to hard of any party coalition to deal with is the grumbling property tax revolt, fueled by boomers in prosperous areas. Wil force Dems across country to govern like CO Dems, where the state constitution has strict tax/revenue parameters
The Stinkfoot1Don't threaten me with a good time
neilpostman.bsky.social1If TX is purple to blue then absolutely no chance there's a national pop vote compact. Dems would win the presidency every cycle and the GOP would cease to exist as it currently stands.
Folks are talking about the national popular vote compact again, which I honestly don't expect would actually survive a constitutional challenge (though I am not a lawyer). I don't think there's one weird trick for stuff; it's going to take an amendment to get rid of the EC.
Andrew1Amending out the EC at least seems plausible if battleground TX triggers self-preservation instincts. In fantasy land, I greatly prefer Federal Convention 2.0 with a maximalist Reconstruction agenda over something like the Compromise of 2029.
Matt Hodges1Agree. Also it's so procedural. This is not the salient thing of the moment even if it'd be good on the merits.