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- The real issue is not how well Clinton, Obama, or McCain might do in closely divided battleground states, but that we shouldn%u2019t have battleground states and spectator states in the first place. Every vote in every state should be politically relevant in a presidential election. Every vote should be equal.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states. The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
The major shortcoming of the current system is that candidates have no reason to worry about the voter concerns in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind, because the winner-take-all rule awards all of a state%u2019s electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
The National Popular Vote bill has been approved in legislative chambers in Colorado, Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, and Washington, Maryland, Illinois, Hawaii, California, and Vermont, and enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring the law into effect. See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com - Reply to this comment
- The real issue is not how well Clinton, Obama, or McCain might do in closely divided battleground states, but that we shouldn%u2019t have battleground states and spectator states in the first place. Every vote in every state should be politically relevant in a presidential election. Every vote should be equal.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states. The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
The major shortcoming of the current system is that candidates have no reason to worry about the voter concerns in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind, because the winner-take-all rule awards all of a state%u2019s electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
The National Popular Vote bill has been approved in legislative chambers in Colorado, Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, and Washington, Maryland, Illinois, Hawaii, California, and Vermont, and enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring the law into effect. See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com - Reply to this comment
- The real issue is not how well Clinton, Obama, or McCain might do in closely divided battleground states, but that we shouldn%u2019t have battleground states and spectator states in the first place. Every vote in every state should be politically relevant in a presidential election. Every vote should be equal.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states. The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
The major shortcoming of the current system is that candidates have no reason to worry about the voter concerns in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind, because the winner-take-all rule awards all of a state%u2019s electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
The National Popular Vote bill has been approved in legislative chambers in Colorado, Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, and Washington, Maryland, Illinois, Hawaii, California, and Vermont, and enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring the law into effect. See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com - Reply to this comment
- The real issue is not how well Clinton, Obama, or McCain might do in closely divided battleground states, but that we shouldn%u2019t have battleground states and spectator states in the first place. Every vote in every state should be politically relevant in a presidential election. Every vote should be equal.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states. The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
The major shortcoming of the current system is that candidates have no reason to worry about the voter concerns in states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind, because the winner-take-all rule awards all of a state%u2019s electoral votes to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
The National Popular Vote bill has been approved in legislative chambers in Colorado, Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, and Washington, Maryland, Illinois, Hawaii, California, and Vermont, and enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring the law into effect. See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com - Reply to this comment
- The Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef said: %u201CWe like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election. ...
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May 12,2008 - Reply to this comment
- CBS/AP) Barack Obama was poised to reach a major milestone Tuesday in the Kentucky and Oregon primaries - a majority of the pledged delegates offered in the Democratic presidential contest". YOU MEAN THIS IS "MAYBE", "ONLY THE FIRST TIME" HE HAS HAD a majority of the pledged delegates offered in the Democratic presidential contest???
ONLY THE FIRST TIME????
MAYBE????????!
In other words, *HILLARY IS WINNING* !!!!! - Reply to this comment
- My concern is over WHO IS WRITING HIS SPEACHES???? For every remark that is made-regardless if its the truth about Obama ''they'' who ever ''they'' are turns it and twists it to make him out to be a sweetheart. GET A GRIP YOU GUYS!!!! This guy is no angel and there''s no damned way your going to convince people he wasn''t going along with the program hanging around with some of the hate mongers of AMERICA. He might look pretty and read his lines well but he''ll never make it with out Hillary as his Vice. Maybe---just maybe then he''ll have a chance. I wonder how many he promissed the ''Vice'' for their vote??? Intresting thought ,don''t you think?
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- All the way to convention, Hillary...ignore these bustwards!
Who do they think they are trying to decide the nomination without the voters! - Reply to this comment
- Faux News will be slinging as much swift boat propaganda as Ruppert Murdoch wants them to sling. "Fair and Balanced" is some Orwellian slogan dreamed up from the depths of down under.
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- On Fox News Sunday, Williams claimed Obama''s Muslim father "presents a problem"
On the January 21 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.''s Fox News Sunday, National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "comes from a father who was a Muslim" and added that "given that we''re at war with Muslim extremists, that presents a problem."
How much more bad news do we need to know about a Democrat candidate before we realize that this man is laughing up his sleeve at all of us.
Wake up Democrats. We can not and will not win this election unless we run from Obama and start supporting the Clintons.
Please keep the unsettling issues pertaining to Senator Obama in the forefront.
There are too many issues surrounding this man that disturbs many Americans and believe me, there will be many more to come.
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Grammy winner Shakira on her music career, philanthropy and being sexy..
