MI GOP to advance EC reallocation plan

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

I really hope this doesn't pass.

[dmmidmi]

This would be great to do in all states where we have state legislative majorities and governorships.  In this case, the real Michigan will finally get a chance to have a say, and we can expand the swing state map for Republicans. Folks outside Detroit  can finally have their voices heard after years of being drowned out.

This can't be a serious post.

[pbrower2a]

This would be great to do in all states where we have state legislative majorities and governorships.  In this case, the real Michigan will finally get a chance to have a say, and we can expand the swing state map for Republicans. Folks outside Detroit  can finally have their voices heard after years of being drowned out.

Republicans have so gerrymandered the state that Battle Creek, East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing are in Republican districts.

I suppose that Battle Creek, East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing aren't part of the "real Michigan".

Your Real America is the part that thinks that evolution and a universe much older than 6000 years old are demonic deceits, that the only purpose of Earthly life is to so suffer for economic elites that they get Pie in the Sky when you die, that global warming is a complete hoax, that gays are all child-molesting perverts, and that Barack Obama is every loathsome thing. possible. 

[Mister Mets]

This could be a big deal.

In the current electoral map, a Republican who flips Florida, Ohio and Virginia gets 266 electoral votes.

Any distribution that provides three more electors gets a 269-269 tie, determined by the political party with the most state congressional delegations (that would be the Republicans.) Four electors takes away the tie.

[dmmidmi]

This would be great to do in all states where we have state legislative majorities and governorships.  In this case, the real Michigan will finally get a chance to have a say, and we can expand the swing state map for Republicans. Folks outside Detroit  can finally have their voices heard after years of being drowned out.

Republicans have so gerrymandered the state that Battle Creek, East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing are in Republican districts.

I suppose that Battle Creek, East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing aren't part of the "real Michigan".

Your Real America is the part that thinks that evolution and a universe much older than 6000 years old are demonic deceits, that the only purpose of Earthly life is to so suffer for economic elites that they get Pie in the Sky when you die, that global warming is a complete hoax, that gays are all child-molesting perverts, and that Barack Obama is every loathsome thing. possible. 

Just to clarify--part of Lansing is in one Republican district, the other part is in another Republican district.

[Slander and/or Libel]

Anybody know where exactly they came up with the particular scheme under discussion here? It's unlike anything I've seen before. It's not proportional representation, and it's not splitting up EVs by district. This 1.5% of the vote = 1 EV thing is odd. It seems to say that if one candidate gets 60.5% of the two party vote in Michigan, then that candidate would take all of Michigan's EVs, right?

[Skill and Chance]

Anybody know where exactly they came up with the particular scheme under discussion here? It's unlike anything I've seen before. It's not proportional representation, and it's not splitting up EVs by district. This 1.5% of the vote = 1 EV thing is odd. It seems to say that if one candidate gets 60.5% of the two party vote in Michigan, then that candidate would take all of Michigan's EVs, right?

Probably because it's just enough to turn this map into a 270/268 GOP win:

[pbrower2a]

This could be a big deal.

In the current electoral map, a Republican who flips Florida, Ohio and Virginia gets 266 electoral votes.

Any distribution that provides three more electors gets a 269-269 tie, determined by the political party with the most state congressional delegations (that would be the Republicans.) Four electors takes away the tie.

Democrats must play a beat-the-cheat strategy because the Republican nominee, the Republican party, and Koch front groups will cheat as much as they must to win if they have the chance. Remember -- if they win, then nobody dares ask any questions unless he doesn;t care whether he has a job working for an American employer.

[Likely Voter]

The core GOP presidential strategy is FL/OH/VA + one more state (with 4 EVs or more). Any election that is very close would probably have MI close enough to get the GOP 4 EVs from this plan. So essentially the GOP would no longer need to fight for that 'plus one' state anymore, and this would result in guaranteeing the GOP win any close/tied election. It is quite devious. But I doubt the gov signs such a plan

[Nutmeg]

This would be great to do in all states where we have state legislative majorities and governorships.  In this case, the real Michigan will finally get a chance to have a say, and we can expand the swing state map for Republicans. Folks outside Detroit  can finally have their voices heard after years of being drowned out.

This can't be a serious post.

No, it's a troll poster.