The Democrats' Anti-Electoral College
Scheme May Be Imploding
PJ Media,
by
Matt Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
5/27/2025 4:24:32 AM
The liberal dream of circumventing the Electoral College might be crumbling faster than anyone expected. Maine, one of the 17 states that joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, is now poised to become the first state to exit the agreement—and it's sending shockwaves through the left-wing coalition that thought they'd found a clever workaround to the Constitution. Just last year, Maine opted to join the compact, which would award all participating states' electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote.
But now the state is having serious second thoughts.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/27/2025 7:48:11 AM (No. 1955973)
I'm pretty sure Trump actually won more than 312 electoral votes. Democrats are so demonically destructive. Yet, everyday they're screaming about how Trump is destroying the Constitution. They don't actually mean he's destroying the real Constitution; they're referring to the tattered one they've created, that whatever we leftists want constitution.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JrSample 5/27/2025 8:02:54 AM (No. 1955984)
If it hadn't been for Covid and the democrats illegally altering Election laws in key battleground States they would have lost the popular and electoral college in 2020. They exploited a global health crisis to install their puppet figurehead with the press being complicit in the big lie.
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bpl40 5/27/2025 8:05:39 AM (No. 1955986)
The Founding Fathers deliberately avoided the word Democracy and went for a Constitutional Republic which sought to preserve individual liberties. A Republic Ma’am if you can keep it - as Ben Franklin said. How prescient he was!
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chance_232 5/27/2025 8:13:30 AM (No. 1955991)
The compact was created not for democracy, but to improve democrat chances of winning the White House. I'm sure a whole lot of people were rethinking their position when they woke up November 6th and realized that under the compact, they would have to award their EC votes to Trump. Which is one of the reasons that I have advocated for Republicans to campaign in the Blue states, to run up the vote tallies.
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seamusm 5/27/2025 9:01:21 AM (No. 1956011)
I am tired of reading how 77 to 75 million votes in the 2024 election is Trump CRUSHING Harris. The election was close albeit decisive. We have to guard against thinking or saying otherwise else GOP supporters will stay home in 2026 thinking that the election's in the bag.
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NorthernDog 5/27/2025 9:13:18 AM (No. 1956014)
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact has always been a dead idea. The Constitution clearly states how a president is elected. The Electoral College is actually the heart of the Constitution and is almost impossible to repeal.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
franco 5/27/2025 11:30:45 AM (No. 1956104)
George W. Bush won the national popular vote by over 3 million votes in 2004, but with only 282 EVs. In the electoral college, a swing of one medium-sized state would have tipped the win to John Effing Kerry. I once ran a spreadsheet for the electoral vote totals had the compact been in place... in which case, all of Kerry's blue states in the compact would have to vote for Bush. Under the compact, Bush would have gotten close to 400 EVs. It surprises me that the compact's proponents would continue to pimp for it after that election, but they did. However, since the Democrats have now destroyed any brand name reputation they ever had with large swaths of their former supporters, they can expect to lose popular votes going forward for several more election cycles. That has more to do with the compact losing its luster than Maine's or Nebraska's ostensible worries.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/27/2025 12:09:27 PM (No. 1956132)
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 5/27/2025 1:34:11 PM (No. 1956175)
Ummm...
The Constitution does not state HOW a state is to select their electors unless I am missing something.
'Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.'
"In such manner as the Legislature THEREOF may direct..." means they can select them based on the last Power Ball Lottery IF the state legislature(s) were to decide this.
A state CAN decide to select based on the popular vote and there is nothing to prevent this from a strict constructionist reading of the Constitution.
The thing that will kill this idea is the same thing that the framers were up against that LED to the forming of the Electoral College. Large states would monopolize federal policies and smaller states would be horribl;y weakened in their power to direct policy.
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