As California Republicans look at Proposition Steal 20 Electoral Votes, a plan that would split the state's electoral votes by gerrymandered congressional district, a new Rasmussen poll Californians prefer the direct approach:
54% of voters would like to get rid of the Electoral College and have the winner of the popular vote become President.
I've been railing against the Electoral College for 30 years. There's only two offices where you can get less votes and win: soil and water commissioner and President of the United States. And I always figured that once the unthinkable happened, and the wrong person got in the White House, people wouldn't stand for it. I mean, leave Florida out of the equation: Al Gore got the most votes.
But look at this:
Democrats strongly support this approach while Republicans are evenly divided.
Because any Republican who supports the abolition of the Electoral College has to at least tacitly acknowledge the illegitimacy of the 2000 election. And that's a lot of cognitive dissonance to handle. But with the person of Bush fading from the scene, and with the brazenness of the California GOP grab, perhaps now is the time.
In Counterpunch, George Bisharat proposes the unspeakable: boycott Israel.
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