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« Reply #25 on: May 18, 2018, 06:28:05 PM »

I think PA/WI/FL/NC will all vote at least 2 points to the right of the nation, so yeah.
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« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2018, 08:24:34 PM »

The electoral college is in-and-of-itself provides advantage to Republicans because it overweights the importance of small, rural states (where Trump tends to do very well) while millions of Democratic votes are wasted in big urban states like New York, California and Illinois. 
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« Reply #27 on: May 18, 2018, 09:24:29 PM »

I can't see him winning CO or VA.
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« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2018, 09:57:13 AM »

The National Popular Vote bill is 61% of the way to guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country, by changing state winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), without changing anything in the Constitution, using the built-in method that the Constitution provides for states to make changes.
   
 It simply requires enacting states to award their electoral votes according to the nationwide, rather than the statewide, popular vote.       
         
All voters would be valued equally in presidential elections, no matter where they live.
Candidates, as in other elections, would allocate their time, money, polling, organizing, and ad buys roughly in proportion to the population
         
Every vote, everywhere, for every candidate, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election.
No more distorting, crude, and divisive and red and blue state maps of predictable outcomes, that don’t represent any minority party voters within each state.
No more handful of 'battleground' states (where the two major political parties happen to have similar levels of support) where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in 38+ predictable winner states that have just been 'spectators' and ignored after the conventions.
We can limit the power and influence of a few battleground states in order to better serve our nation.
               
The bill would take effect when enacted by states with a majority of the electoral votes—270 of 538. 
All of the presidential electors from the enacting states will be supporters of the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes among all 50 states (and DC)—thereby guaranteeing that candidate with an Electoral College majority.
               
The bill was approved in 2016 by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Missouri (10).
Since 2006, the bill has passed 36 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, red, blue, and purple states with 261 electoral votes.
The bill has been enacted by 11 small, medium, and large jurisdictions with 165 electoral votes – 61% of the way to guaranteeing the presidency to the candidate with the most popular votes in the country      
            
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