The Nebraska deadline for introducing bills passed on January 21, and no legislator introduced a bill to change Nebraska’s system of choosing one presidential elector from each U.S. House district. A press survey earlier this month had revealed that almost half of Nebraska’s legislators want to return to “winner-take-all” for choosing presidential electors, but no legislator seems to have introduced a bill to do that.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Any State legislature with a time deadline on bills is INSANE.
The legislative power is ALWAYS ongoing — to deal with new stuff.
If the legislative power is defective, then the monarchs takes over — Presidents, Governors, Mayors etc — with the resulting EVIL — wars, inflations, depressions, etc.
U.S.A. Const. Amdt NOW –
Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A.
Equal ballot access
P.R
A.V.
The State legislator party hack MORONS can DEMAND the Amdt via Art. V. — IF they had ANY brains — which most of them do NOT — since they are party hacks with party hack reptile brains.
You forgot ‘wake up, sheeple.’
There is a logic going on about this that is under the surface and being planned within the GOP. Let me explain.
TX is undergoing a major, and I mean, major demographic shift. IF the hispanics continue to support the democratic party in the way it supported Obama in the 2008 GE, this means that the chances are extremely high the TX will go “blue” within 8, at the latest, 12 years. With the DEMS having a solid lock on CA, NY and IL, and with FL a perennial bitter battleground, the only really big state of the big 5 that has been reliably republican has been TX. If TX goes blue, then the GOP has a major problem on it’s hands. Without TX in the red column, a GOP path to victory in a GE is practically impossible.
For this reason, according to my statistical calculations, I predict that the TX GOP will propose ELECTOR SPLITTING in Texas in either 2011 or 2013, while they are still in power, knowing that when they lose power, the DEMS will never propose elector splitting. Their logic is solid in this case: better to lose just one half of the state than all of it when it goes blue. TX jumps to at least 36 electors as of 2011, perhaps 38 electors, and if trends continue, will have 41 electors by 2030.
But the GOP will have one hell of a time getting elector splitting through in TX if the general public sees that the GOP just killed elector splitting in NE.
For this reason, the GOP is sitting on it’s thumbs in NE. It’s willing to swallow the loss of one elector (NE-02) in order to cut very likely losses in TX in the future.
So, you see, the massive migration from the snowbelt to the sunbelt in our union looks good for the GOP at the onset, but within the gift of extra electors is a trojan horse, namely the blueification of a big state like TX. Not only that, but the western states that went for Obama in 2008 are likely to strengthen in the DEM column in the coming years. And AZ is not immune to this demographic shift.