Here in Maryland our state Senate is prepared to throw our votes away, and force our electoral votes to swing with the National Popular vote for President. They want to force our electoral votes to goto the President elect with a largest National Popular Vote. I say, what if MD voters didn't vote that way? They throw our votes out the window, disenfranchise a whole state of voters. I thought every vote counted? Not in Maryland they don't!
The move is sour grapes of Al Gore's loss to Bush in 2000. Gore lost. If he was that good of a candidate people would have supported him much more than they did and he would have won in a landslide. He didn't. To have Bush edge him out, under known Electoral College rules, enacted for over a hundred years, is something from a mental midget and crybaby. Other losers accepted the loss and moved on, but not Gore. He had to take it to court, and apparently while the Democrats are in power they see a chance to lean elections their way, due to the overwhelming popular vote that larger states pull, such as California and New York.
The Electoral College was enacted to give the smaller states a say, and keep from being railroaded in elections. If you think this is not important, then you don't know history. America went to war with itself, in the Civil War, over states rights. It will again if the larger populated states have more say than the more rural and sparse states.
I have no problem with Maryland insisting our votes must go to the one who wins popular vote in Maryland, but I am not going to allow my votes to goto a candidate California elects.
