Michael P Ramirez cartoon via scoopnest.com
This blog posted previously on the dangers of the National
Popular Vote Compact and its goal of end-running the Electoral College. J.R.Dunn reports on a hopeful development:
. . . on May 30 Gov. Steve Sisolak
of Nevada vetoed
the bill, which had been passed by the state senate nine days before. This
action may very well break the momentum of the march to 270, marking the high
tide of the Democrat’s latest attempt to subvert representative democracy.
The Electoral College has outdone
the Founder’s fondest hopes for it. Over the past twenty years alone, in has
prevented two utterly unworthy candidates from occupying the White House – Al
Gore, a flake at the very least, and Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt American
politician since Aaron Burr.
Both, of course, were Democrats,
which raises a very interesting question, because so too is Steve Sisolak. The
motive behind the national popular vote movement is unquestionably a search for
a means for the Dems, who can no longer command a national following, to gain
the presidency by hook or by crook. So why did Sisolak turn against his own
party and its future presidential hopes? Sisolak gave as his reason the fact
that “Nevada’s interests could diverge from the interests of large
states,” which at least shows that he was thinking, unlike the governors
of Colorado, New Mexico, or Washington, just to mention three.
It has often been pointed out that
the end result of the popular vote movement would be national elections
effectively decided by New York, Southern California, D.C., and a handful of
other high-density districts. The government of the U.S. would be effectively
handed over to the Northeast, a few spots on the West Coast, and a couple of
Midwestern cities. As a second-order development, media coverage and interest
in any other areas would simply cease. Even today, coverage of the flyover
states is as minimal as mass media can get away with. Under the new system, it
would be nonexistent.
And so would flyover politics. From
that point on, all presidential candidates would come from New York, the
Massachusetts Bay area, LA, and perhaps Chicago. Politicians from those areas
would be the sole recipients of national coverage.
Everybody else – all the
Trumans, the Jacksons, the Coolidges, the Lincolns – would be as unknown as if
they were living in the Mato Grosso.
It’s likely that this occurred to
Steven Sisolak.
Fingers crossed. Full report at American Thinker is here.
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