It’s popular so no
Will They Do It?
No
Next question, please
Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again
Will they do it? Depends on how hard we pressure them. We can’t let a blue wave leave us complacent. We haven’t won shit yet.
I like Al-Sayed’s approach. He said he was not worried about losing the election. His biggest worry was winning the election and failing to make a difference.
This blue wave is nothing but the starting bell. The real work starts now. Let’s stay annoying and never get off of our representatives asses.
PS: Epic username.
Florida here. All my reps are GOP. :(
We all saw how close Angie Nixon got on a “we’ll see” from the party. Florida was in play where it wasn’t before. Blue Florida is attainable.
Damn, not only the requisite number of states, but also the Congress majority to permit the compact as mandated by the Constitution
The national Congress has no say, cannot have a say. The article is talking about Democrats taking state houses and governorships, giving those states the opportunity to join the pact.
There are arguments for both views. Realistically given the political environment I have a feeling that the Supreme Court would decide that they do get to weigh in, and they would probably rule that congress has to approve it. In general, agreements between states, like the voting compact, do require congressional approval because having the feds as a mediator could prevent two states from getting into it or going to war with each other over any given compact. States are like tiny independent countries up until they arent, and this is one area where its sensible for keeping the peace if they arent allowed to be such a high degree of independent. Just like how some random state cant decide to have their own independent relationship with a foreign government
The good thing is that if that happens, then itll be cool beans either way.
If they listen to the new batch of senators and house members. But they love the money and corpo dems get rich wither it’s the gop or Dems in charge and it’s for that very reason the perfer republican over progressive Dems. Who cares if we have concentration camps filled with children as long as they get there blood money.
Pieces of shit probably will not show up and blame some other imaginary traffic jam after months of sitting on their asses getting paid for nothing.
No.
It’s something they can use to conveniently blame when they lose instead of themselves so probably not.
Going down this road means that only NYC, chicago, LA voters count.
I live in Tulsa, OK. I’ve voted blue and my vote hasn’t mattered in all the years I’ve been able to. This would make it actually count for something.
It’s not that only big cities count. It means that your vote counts not matter where you live. Land doesn’t vote, so why are we assigning votes based on location rather than population, which is actual people?
Land doesn’t vote and people live in cities. Shocking I know.
So “only” the majority of the people. Got it.
Tyranny of the majority.
I’m talking about disenfranchising everyone exception those living in 3 cities.
There is no perfect solution, just a series of hopefully workable compromises… Madison’s grand compromise.
Better than tyranny of the fringe lunatics like we have now
Please explain why.
Population density. If a candidate can carry NYC, chicago, LA there are enough votes that they can ignore the vast majority of the country
Yes, that’s where populations tend to be.
Are you arguing the individuals who live there should have their votes count for less because of it?
I’m arguing that a monoculture of urban elites should not dominate the government. In theory, the judicial arm of the government would protect the interests of minorities but the judicial branch is composed of coastal elites as well.
You do understand that we’re talking about popular vote here, right? Having the most votes in a city is not the same thing as having all the votes in that same city. The votes that don’t go to the most popular guy in Chicago still go to the other guy(s), who might still have more votes from other places. How is this confusing?
Edit: And LO-FUCKING-L at “urban elites”. The vast majority of urban voters are poor. You want to talk elite, it’s the fucking land owners that you want to give more voting power to.
