NEW: Tea Party Opposes National Popular Vote Bill
Monday, April 09, 2012
The bill would commit a majority of the Electoral College to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It would reform the Electoral College so that the electoral vote reflects the choice of the nation’s voters for president.
“Our Founding Fathers designed a political structure for the United States to protect the rights of the individual by preventing the central government from becoming tyrannical and oppressive,” an e-mail that went out supports said. “We call this "checks and balances" on the power of the central government.”
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Comments:
Wuggly Ump
6:41pm on Monday, April 09, 2012
On the surface the popular vote always sounds like a good idea, the hitch is then you have mob rule.
Providence for instance could by majority vote itself whatever it wanted from the rest of the state. The two coasts could decide everything for middle America, handing huge amounts of power to whoever is in power in Washington.
I would have liked to see a little more in this article.
Russ C
10:32am on Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Oh, brother. Why do I care what the Tea Party says about this?