RNC Chair: Rig The Next Presidential Election For Republicans
A little over a year ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) proposed rigging the presidential election for Mitt Romney by allocating electoral votes based upon which candidate carried each individual congressional district, rather than upon who wins the state as a whole. Thanks in large part to Republican gerrymandering, if Corbett’s election-rigging plan had been in effect last November in the Republican-controlled states of Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, Romney would have won the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote by nearly four points.
In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus did not simply endorse this election-rigging scheme, he indicated that it should be targeted towards consistently Democratic states where it is most likely to skew the presidential election to the GOP’s benefit:
Republicans are in a unique position to make headway with such a plan nationally because Wisconsin and other key states that have gone to the Democratic presidential candidate in recent elections are currently controlled by Republicans at the state level. The change would give Republicans a chance to claim some of those states’ electoral votes.
“I think it’s something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red ought to be looking at,” Priebus said of the plan to change how electoral votes are granted.
Such a system “gives more local control” to the states, he argued.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/14/1443731/rnc-chair-rig-the-next-president-election-for-republicans/
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and republicans only look at what's in front of their nose.
but if you don't see it, no matter how deep into it I would go, you wouldn't get it, so I will save my fingers to type on something else.
Needless to say, I am not worried about this, I am not worried about any theft, as I don't believe 2000 was lost due to theft, but due to something that will never again be relevant-
that being Ralph Nader being the vessel paid for and approved by the Bush's to keep the vote down with his naive lies about both parties being the same, ending with to the delicious irony of republicans and Bush family members all over, the Supreme Court decision to give it to Bush.
(Supreme Court being the most obvious of reasons that both parties are not the same).
And in 2016, different candidates, different methods
and maybe, in revenge, the democrats will make a new law saying anyone who owns a gun is a felon, therefore they can't vote.
There would go most likely the entire white male republican vote, leaving the republicantealibertairans with zero votes altogether.
Wouldn't that be funny!
republicans like Bush friend Lance Armstrong need to cheat.
democrats are the wide majority and when they are not distracted, win every time.
(matter of fact, except for a few bullets, a few sidetracks, and one helleva wedge issue in 1968, the democrats would have won the presidency every single election since FDR won.
The loses of AES, HHH, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry will never happen again.
Because though they all were nice guys and great people, all of them made bad political mistakes or the voters were stupid and became distracted and fractured, and well, it won't happen again.
Which is why without much fuss, Hillary will be Hillary45 with no major primary challenge.
And why no shenanigans in the world will change anything.
And if they get rid of the electoral vote, the popular vote will be won by democrats over the republicantealibertarians time and again.
Plotting to steal elections is so 2000.
By the time Hillary's second term is over, the courts will be 8 to 1 or perhaps 9 to 0,
with President Obama as chief justice.
and voters don't like cheaters on either side.
So sleight of hands in the social media world, don't work like the phony recount protest worked in 2000. Because if that happened today, it would instanly outed the protesters as being Tom DeLay staff agitators, and they would have been arrested and the recount continued.
Sad thing though was, there were few actual people in the streets in 2000 in Florida or DC.
I felt really lonely out there.
Sad thing too, but that shall never happen again, is the way President Clinton was shunned by Gore.
4 states would have easily been won by Gore had Bill been allowed to be Bill.
In retrospect, it is all so easy to see.
The public is not going to reelect another Bush in 2016, no matter he will get the nomination.
And no, Chris Christie will never win the nomination. Had the repubs wanted Chris Christie to be the nominee(even to take a dive), it would have been this time.
Won't happen
Just like any shenanigans won't change anything.
Because things aren't constant.
And the pool of voters they have grows smaller day to day.
