biennale as an american citizen
assuming that you are one if you're not if you become one
as big as one
you and i do not have the right
right as and you know constitutional right we do not have the right to vote
for president states
because some free extremal just ask the five right wingers of the supreme court
in two thousand who decided the infamous bush beat court case
in their decision
justices kennedy
o'connor
blank when she was the chief justice scalia and thomas in their still with us
said write outloud in front of god in everybody that quote
the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for
electors for the president of united states end of quote
so high that happen
well unlike u_s_ representatives and senators the president has states is not
directly elected by we the people instead the framers put in the
constitution
that the president
is elected by the electoral college
and the states can each decide how they're electoral votes
her daily dot
and all but two states whoever wins the majority of votes in a state wins all of
that states electoral votes
so
even other benefit cases where one can i got more votes nationally likey al gore
get in a half million more votes nationwide injures a bush
that was the exception the rule generally the winner of the national
popular vote also wins the electoral college
and of course because the constitution says that the electoral college for
decides who is our president that's a pretty important frank
which is why now that the republican party has been hijacked by a small group
a cranky billionaires
that party is trying to read the electoral college in what have his story
played in blue or democratic boating states
this is their they're really getting close to pulling this thing off and i
predict that this
bruno were here to see at least three states probably five do this
by the two thousand fourteen elections
but if you'd all back to two thousand ten in the first election after the
citizens united decision
hundreds of million
means of dollars outside spain by
billionaires like the coke brothers
but republicans in control of these traditionally blues states
that they'd been targeting for years including pennsylvania wisconsin ohio
and michigan
and once republicans got charge and i would add wisconsin as well
once republicans and arguably india
once republicans got charge of the state legislatures the gerrymander the
congressional districts
and effect you prior to us in florida
to increase the number and the safety of the republican seats and that's why
right now republicans control the house representatives even dol
nationwide house democratic candidates received more than a million votes more
and house republican candidates around the nation last november
nationally republicans lost the house
but they still control it
because their election reading at the state level
and now they want to read the election for president united states
and they may well began with michigan
so instead of this current winner take all system where
whoever wins the majority the vote in the state gets all that states electoral
college votes
proposed as one michigan's electoral college most doled out based on which
presidential candidate
one each congressional district
with two extra votes there to do it's going to the states popular vote winner
republicans in wisconsin ohio pennsylvania and virginia considering
similar changes in the republican party officials including r_n_c_ chirp brent
sprayers
have thrown very support behind this idea reading the presidential elections
in the blue states
now they don't do it the red states cuz then you know the red states co call for
the republican you can
benji some democrats want a couple of problems
but effing polis thing off it may be a long time before a democrat has ever
elected president again
even though with the majority of americans will vote for democrats over
over and over again for president
for example
president obama's swept
the six main battleground states florida michigan ohio pennsylvania virginia
wisconsin
in the last election
and since he stayed operates on a winner take all bases the president got a all
one hundred and six
electoral votes out of those
six battleground states
ronnie has euro
but if this new election grading scheme had been in place last year the
president obama with only gotten forty-seven electoral college votes for
the battleground states
on their ronnie would have won those states with fifty nine votes
even though he got hammered in the popular vote in each one of those dates
eat irani lost each state
have all the states an ancient and gone along with this election reading scheme
of turbo begins a repository now in michigan and virginia and pennsylvania
event billionaire marami would be our president today even though he lost the
national though by almost three million votes
okay here's the bottom line
these guys have this thing figured out the billionaires and the republicans
that they owner
know that they are a minority in this country
they're hard right bigotry
toward gays and women turns off young voters
and female voters their bed there and gave her first course there's enough
albeit and their mistrust of non-whites
has turned off the growing minority electorate
and their economic principals from reaganomics to austerity
to a trickle-down economics there's slowly destroying our country and the
people that figure this out
so
can win an election for square you read it
and we have to do something to head off this billionaire takeover of our
presidential elections
so what we do
i suggest
more democracy
there is a way to eliminate the power of the electoral college that doesn't
require amending the constitution see because the letter colleges in the
constitution if you want to just take it out and say yellow whoever gets the
majority of votes that's the president
he actually have to amand article two of the constitution
he can get around it
briefs pretty straightforward
you're a city you're exiting you replace the electoral college of the system
of more democracy national popular vote
the likes our president based on which candidate gets the most votes nationwide
plain and simple and more importantly
republican rigged proof
nine states of already passed national popular vote once
and those states
they're still doing wears a call right now but what there's what they have
committed
by law
is that there are elect or has there been their members of the electoral
college
will vote
for which ever can it wins the national popular vote even if that canada lost in
that state's electoral college it in that state
and therefore should have loss that states like to call it
as he served us so far included against is
these nine six a six small states
plus california illinois in maryland
they can offer a hundred and thirty two electoral votes ats almost half of the
two hundred and seventy needed
in electrical issue when the presidency
if the national popular vote movement continues to spread
an estate sign up to bring their combined electoral college goes to two
hundred and seventy then the electoral college abhi functionally dead
along with republican efforts to regard elections in crocker democracy this
needs to be our game plan from here on out
it's up to us the ninety nine percent to push back against this nation's corrupt
conservative minority and their billionaire backers and stop them once
and for all from reading elections in america so you can join this movement
their national popular vote dot com and i have nothing to do the people around
this website is just a really
you know it's a great aggregation of the information on this national popular
vote dot com is off
for several others other sites out there to talk about his work is good or
national popular vote
or dr golan
and see how you can get involved
because we need democracy to push back
against the billionaire funded republican jim
says it's all about corrupt in the box and that's not good for
mister republic
comma hartman
solely hank
the boat is going to pull this thing offer they get on with the next
presidential election i think they're really going to try