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I would love for us to move it to a popular vote. repubs candidates would never win!

Just imagine how much better our country would have been had we elected Gore instead of Jr. back in 2000?

The National Popular Vote bill preserves the Electoral College. It changes the way electoral votes are awarded by states in the Electoral College. It assures that every vote is equal, every voter will matter, in every state, in every presidential election, and the candidate with the most votes wins, as in virtually every other election in the country.

Under National Popular Vote, every vote would be included in the state counts and national count. The candidate with the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC would get the 270+ electoral votes from the enacting states. That majority of electoral votes guarantees the candidate with the most popular votes in the country wins the presidency.

National Popular Vote would give a voice to the minority party voters in each state. Now their votes are counted only for the candidate they did not vote for. Now they don't matter to their candidate.

The U.S. Supreme Court has said states have the exclusive constitutional power to change how they award electors from section 1 of Article II - "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ."

The presidential election system we have today is not in the Constitution. State-by-state winner-take-all laws to award Electoral College votes, were eventually enacted by states, using their exclusive power to do so, AFTER the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

Policies important to the over 85 million voters of flyover states, like Utah, are not as highly prioritized as policies important to battleground states when it comes to governing.

States have the responsibility and power to make their voters and their issues relevant in every presidential election and beyond.

Utah generated a margin of 385,000 "wasted" votes for Bush in 2004.

A 2009 survey of 800 Utah voters showed 70% overall support for the idea that the President should be the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
Support by political affiliation, was 82% among Democrats, 66% among Republicans, and 75% among others.
By gender, support was 78% among women and 60% among men.

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system.

In the smallest states, the National Popular Vote bill has passed in 9 legislative chambers and been enacted by 3 jurisdictions.

On second thought. With DNews and Utah's icon Mitt Romney, even if Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the supercommittee joined forces and waved a wand, Florida won't vote for this RINO. To make a buck, just how many 2011 American Eagle 25th Anniversary Silver Coin Set's did Mitt Romney buy?.

I told you I would tell you the truth.

I didn't say you would like it.

Now, did I?.

As one looks down the long table at the people that are part of the so called 'super duper committee', one can see scoundrel faces and realize that this was just another scam set up to make the voters think they are concerned about the debt. This bill does nothing to curb the tide of national bankruptsy. The numbers in the bill represent less that the amount our debt goes up in one year. And its scheduled for TEN years. What a joke!

It's great to hear conservatives finnaly on board with tackling the debt. After all, we were yelling pretty loud about Bush's debt for years and all we heard was, "war on terror" in a robotic voice.

I hope you all don't change your screen names next time a republican is in office because I want to read all your aplogist rationalizations for out of control republican spending again.