Spanberger Joins Attack On Electoral College
American Spectator,
by
David Catron
Original Article
Posted By: gaboy,
4/20/2026 2:05:30 AM
A great deal of national news coverage concerning Virginia has focused on the attempt by its new Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, and her confederates in the General Assembly to circumvent the commonwealth’s constitution in order to radically gerrymander the state’s congressional district map. This maneuver has, however, overshadowed another of their equally dubious legislative actions. A bill proposing that Virginia join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) passed both houses of the General Assembly in February, and Gov. Spanberger signed it into law on April 13.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/20/2026 4:25:49 AM (No. 2094804)
Perhaps it is just me, but when I look at her, I see a face of evil.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/20/2026 5:14:46 AM (No. 2094808)
Not just you, #1.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 4/20/2026 6:18:14 AM (No. 2094824)
She has made a deal with the Dem powerbrokers. Keep me in power and I will sign anything you put in front of me.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/20/2026 6:43:12 AM (No. 2094832)
Of course the Founders designed our extraordinary system to avoid “pure democracy”, because, having read and understood history and political philosophy, they understood the tendency of such toward dictatorship of mob rule. Dems are mobsters at heart.
And Spam-burglar is the DemoCRAT GOV, not DemoCRATIC.
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DCGIRL 4/20/2026 6:56:50 AM (No. 2094840)
Virginia nows this mess. Let's see how long it takes them to figure out that they screwed up royally.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PubliusMM 4/20/2026 7:00:39 AM (No. 2094841)
The Electoral College is the only thing that keeps any value in the votes of millions of people who choose to live outside major metro areas, such as New York City, Chicago, LA, and others. My own notion is the EC should be revamped to standardize on the allocation of votes. There are currently 538 Electoral Votes; one for each Congresscritter, each Senator, and three for DC. The EV should be cast as follows: One EV cast for the winner of the Pres/VP at the Congressional District; two EV cast for the Pres/VP winner of the State, and DC can do the popular vote if they so desire. That puts even more value in every vote and rather forces the candidates to campaign more deeply and thoroughly across the Nation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/20/2026 7:22:37 AM (No. 2094848)
We are beginning to see what would have been if we had "Founding Mothers".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/20/2026 7:57:15 AM (No. 2094868)
If you want to really understand the value of the Electoral College, just see who opposes it!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NamVet70 4/20/2026 8:08:14 AM (No. 2094876)
Such a compact disenfranchises all the voters in Virginia. It probably would not survive a legal challenge.
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vhs68 4/20/2026 8:14:01 AM (No. 2094882)
Is Abigail the twin sister of Mary McCord? That would explain a lot.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/20/2026 8:15:44 AM (No. 2094884)
I have observed democrat voters for over 65 years. What is the major thing I see that most have in common? They are SELFISH.
The put the ME in A MErica
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
felixcat 4/20/2026 8:33:04 AM (No. 2094894)
Re #5 - Once again, don't blame all Virginias for this mess. Blame the registered Republican voters who couldn't get off their rear ends last Nov and vote for Winsome Sears.
BTW- Trump won the popular vote in 2024 so this compact would not have affected his victory.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 4/20/2026 9:33:39 AM (No. 2094914)
#7,
We have slowly been learning that lesson since women started to vote.
It is no mystery that when women started voting we started skewing towards a 'nanny state' as their maternal instincts bleed through their collective cognition at the ballot box.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/20/2026 11:48:20 AM (No. 2094987)
If the country had been a pure Democracy with no electoral college in 1850, slaves would have never been freed.
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Starboard_side 4/20/2026 2:42:41 PM (No. 2095059)
Notice how today's Democrats need to tilt the playing field just to remain in office since their actual ideas aren't popular?
They need set-asides, they need gerrymandering schemes, and want to change the actual Constitution without the pesky amendment process with this collusion to assign Electoral College votes.
Of course, they don't care, they simply want the power to dictate what you can do, what you can keep of your own money and what freedoms you'll be left with.
They really enjoyed the COVID years when they were able to use their long-held authoritarian ideas and the means to enact the controls on your life.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/21/2026 2:10:55 PM (No. 2095450)
This agreement would not change the results as much as one might expect. The electoral college is very proportional to the popular vote since nearly all states have the winner takes all rule. This eliminates the third party candidates so you get a Republican or a Democrat. The only effect a third party candidate can have is to draw enough votes away from one of the other candidates to switch which one would get the most votes. When Ross Perot ran against Bush and Clinton, he got 21% of the popular vote and no electors. Clinton won, but it’s was believed that Bush would have won if Ross had not been in the race.
The other thing that could change the results is the popular vote eliminates the impact the two electors each state gets for its Senators. (This was designed to give the low population states a little more political power in the electoral college in the selection of the President.) These votes can also change the election results.
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