{"id":29661,"date":"2017-09-29T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29661"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:24:35","slug":"national-popular-vote-for-the-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/national-popular-vote-for-the-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"National Popular Vote for the Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"

I imagine I must have you scratching your heads wondering how the Republican Reich could possibly support the National Popular Vote, since they depend on the Electoral College to circumvent the will of the people.  I wasn’t referring to Republican Reich, the Reich on the right that is always wrong.  I was referring to the Reich on the left that is always right, Robert Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We must make sure our democracy doesn\u2019t ever again elect a candidate who loses the popular vote. That means making the Electoral College irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how: As you probably know, the Constitution assigns each state a number of electors based on the state\u2019s population. The total number of electors is 538, so any candidate who gets 270 of those Electoral College votes becomes president. <\/p>\n

Article II of the Constitution says states can award their electors any way they want. So all that\u2019s needed in order to make the Electoral College irrelevant is for states with a total of at least 270 electors to agree to award all their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. <\/p>\n

If they do that, then automatically the winner of the popular vote gets the 270 electoral college votes he or she needs to become president…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Robert Reich<\/a>>
Graphic credit: Daily Trojan<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Here’s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n