Key Republicans Back Away From Electoral Vote Scheme

[peace frog]

Momentum for an RNC-backed plan to rig blue state electoral votes in favor of GOP presidential candidates appears to be stalling as more Republicans come out against the idea.

In Virginia, one such bill that passed out of a Senate subcommittee this week appears to be close to dead. Had it been in effect in 2012, Republican state Sen. Charlie Carrico’s proposal to allocate electoral votes by congressional district would have awarded Mitt Romney nine electoral votes to President Obama’s thanks to gerrymandering by the GOP-controlled legislature. But two Republican state senators have already announced their opposition, enough to block the bill’s passage if Democrats maintain a unified front. On Friday, Governor Bob McDonnell (R) came out against the proposal as well, announcing through a spokesman that “Virginia’s existing system works just fine as it is” and that he “does not believe there is any need for a change.”

Republicans in five other states that voted for President Obama in 2012 but whose statehouses are currently under unified GOP control are contemplating similar electoral vote schemes. They are Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida.

But Florida may be out of the picture for now as well. On Friday, the state’s Republican House speaker, Will Weatherford, condemned efforts around the country to change electoral vote distribution as a sore loser response to the 2012 election.


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[Scuba]

1. If they're letting this plan die, it's because they have an even sneakier one.

[WCGreen]

2. I don't really thinks that is their intent...

If it starts down this road they know that it will inevitably come back to bite them in the ass.

[peace frog]

3. And we'll be all over it like white on rice

They succeed only when they're able to push it through quietly and undetected by the public. Didn't happen this time and with the alert help of those in the know, we'll expose them whenever they pull this kind of shit.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Does nyone in the GOP ever think about anything but cheating and stealing.

Dirty rotten dogs, corrupt and disgusting. Where is the "Christians" who claim to be in the GOP? Has honestly become something of the past? Talking about being the party of stupid, they need to also add party of theives. How about the GOP putting forth a honest platform which this country can grow and prosper on, oh, I forgot, this is the platform the Dems already have. They have gone so far crazy until I don't know if they can return to normal without professional help.

[Viva_Daddy]

5. Amazing what media exposure will do, isn't it?

[Deep13]

6. keep up the pressure nt

[thucythucy]

7. This is already backfiring on them.

It has brought greater attention to the scandal of their gerrymandering. I've heard several accounts now about how, if this rule had been in effect, Romney would have won the majority of Virginia's electoral votes, even though President Obama won the popular vote, because of how skewed the districts have become under the GOP engineered redistricting. People are beginning to realize that, if the districts in Virginia, Ohio, Florida and elsewhere had been anything close to representative of the will of the people, the Democrats would have retaken the House.

Not only the scheme, but the reasoning behind it, throws the so-called legitimacy of Boehner's speakership into doubt.