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Why have four Republican Governors vetoed the bill to in effect, get rid of the Electoral College?
After the primaries, the candidates devote their attention to the swing states. The remaining "spectator" states are ignored.
There is a plan to make the Electoral College irrelevant and in effect go to a popular vote system, without a constitutional amendment. Information about it is available here: http://www.everyvoteequal.com/ and http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/
The plan has been enacted by both houses of the legislatures in 7 states: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinios, Hawaii, California, Vermont, Rhode Island. - Under this plan, states would agree to give all of their Electoral Votes to the winner of the National Popular Vote - but the plan would not go into effect until states having a majority (270) of the Electoral votes have enacted the bill into law.
The bill has been vetoed by the Governors of California, Vermont, Rhode Island and Hawaii, all of whom are Republicans. (In Hawaii, a 2/3 majority of both houses of the legislature, overturned the governor's veto.)
I don't think it is a coincidence that all the vetoes were by Republican Governors. The question is why?
I think I know the answer, but I would like to see if anybody else can guess what it is.
This is not a large state - small state issue. Three of the vetos were by Republican Governors of small states, and one was by the Republican Governor of a large state.
In 2004, if 60,000 people in the swing state of Ohio had voted for Kerry rather than Bush, Kerry would be president, even though he lost the popular vote by more than 3 million votes, so a popular vote system wouldn't necessarily benefit the Democrats - but I still think it is no coincidence that all the vetoes came from Republican Governors, and I think that these Republican Governors have not been entirely candid in stating their reasons for their veteos.
I rephrased this question after it wasremoved by Yahoo, on the grounds that it was not a question. I previously phrased the question this way: "Why have Republican Governors been vetoing the bill to get rid of the Electoral College?" - At the time that my question was removed, it already had 18 answers, Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to read them all, and I have no idea why my question was removed. Maybe there are people on the Yahoo staff who don't want this serious question discussed.
After the primaries, the swing states get all the attention from the candidates. The 7 states whose legislatures passed the National Popular Vote Bill are not swing states. After the primaries, the candidates have no incentive to campaign in urban or rural areas, unless they are in swing states.
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- mrjonessr41Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Are you kidding LOL without that slanted system they would never have a Republican President again in this Country.
- 1 decade ago
I don't want to go to a national winner-take-all popular vote. So I imagine the people voting against it hold similar opinions.
Edit: If a change like this took place, would politicians running for office bother to campaign outside of major urban areas? Not as much as they do now.
