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« on: June 14, 2008, 03:48:11 PM »
Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, and now Hawaii are members. Hawaii joined despite having only 0.5% of the voters, compared to 0.75% of the electoral votes. These 4 states total 50 EV.

Other states that could pass it sometime soon are: California, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.

Even if they all passed it, it would still be short of the 270 needed for it to take effect; so it's obviously not happening for the 2008 election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2008, 05:13:44 PM »
We already have a thread for this.
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2008, 09:41:44 PM »
Why do this? It wouldn't be fun anymore to watch the elections.
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2008, 01:01:03 AM »
Because we obviously want to spit in our founder's faces.
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2008, 06:35:28 AM »
Quote from: Josh22 on June 14, 2008, 09:41:44 PM
Why do this? It wouldn't be fun anymore to watch the elections.

To make it easier for big-city machines to steal the election.
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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2008, 11:54:08 AM »
Quote from: AHDuke99 on June 15, 2008, 01:01:03 AM
Because we obviously want to spit in our founder's faces.

12th Amendment?
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2008, 12:33:57 PM »
Huh, very interesting, I didn't know anything about this.  Yeah, in my opinion the Electoral College doesn't really do what it was suppose to, anyway.  I've kinda come to liking the Nebraska-Maine method as a compromise, but that gets a lot more partisan an thus harder to pass *shrug*
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2008, 02:18:47 PM »
Quote from: AHDuke99 on June 15, 2008, 01:01:03 AM
Because we obviously want to spit in our founder's faces.

Oh yes, the founders were, after all, divine.
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2008, 08:27:43 PM »
Quote from: AHDuke99 on June 15, 2008, 01:01:03 AM
Because we obviously want to spit in our founder's faces.

Madison himself said that the Constitution was a temporary document. All of the much-deified founding fathers intended for Constitutional Conventions to be regular events to keep the Constitution up-to-date and applicable to the modern day.
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« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2008, 01:15:35 AM »
No. The Constitution was meant to stay the same way it was written forever. If the founders wanted us to change it at some time in the future, they would've provided some sort of way to change it. Some sort of way to amend it, if you will.
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