<$BlogRSDUrl$>

My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2007-04-12

If At First You Don't Succeed . . .

you should probably change the rules.

I thought it was yoeman's work for Colorado to kill Amendment 36, which would have distributed Colorado's electoral college votes according to the distribution of the state's popular vote. But, as has been noticed before, there's more than one way to skin a cat, as Maryland is demonstrating:

Maryland is poised to become the first state to approve giving its electoral votes for president to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than to the candidate chosen by state voters.

The plan, passed Monday by the state House, would take effect only if states representing a majority of the nation's 538 electoral votes adopted the same change. National Popular Vote, a group that supports the change, says bills have been introduced in 22 states.

The Arkansas House and Hawaii and Colorado senates have voted for the change. North Dakota and Montana voted against it this year.

Gosh, that's great company--Hawaii and Maryland (not sure how Arkansas figures in there), two of the most liberal states in the union. And now we're with them, with our own Senate Bill 46 awaiting action in the state House.

On the other hand, I don't think this is going to get very far. Gov AH-nold vetoed this in California, and if it's only in 22 states, and it's the likes of MD, HI, and us that are passing this, I don't think it's headed for the majority it needs.

But, sadly, it's up off the scrap heap and some states are actually adopting this lunacy.

Like I said--that's great company.
Posted by: Michael / 4/12/2007 12:03:00 AM

Weblog Commenting by HaloScan.com

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?