So far, 12 states across the U.S. Have banded
together to help abolish the electoral college,
and by abolish the Electoral College, I don't
mean that they're actually getting rid of
it.
They're just revamping it so that it technically
wouldn't actually matter in the coming elections.
And here's how they're doing it.
These 12 states have now passed legislation
that would allow them to change the way the
electors in their state or delegated.
In fact, at that point, under the new legislation,
it doesn't matter which candidate wins that
state, whether it's Colorado, whether it's
New York or Washington DC or all of the New
England states minus New Hampshire who have
signed onto this.
Whoever wins the national popular vote, we'll
get all of the elect doors from that state,
whether or not they won that particular state.
So what these states are doing is saying,
we're going to base this on national popular
vote.
Doesn't matter you when our state great for
you, but if you lose the popular vote, you
don't get our electors because we want to
be representative of what the people in the
United States from coast to coast had to say
at the polls.
And that's how it should be.
This is a smart move because it doesn't go
as far as to completely eliminate the electoral
college, which could run into constitutional
challenges.
And possibly you need an amendment to do that.
Oh No, no.
They're just changing procedure, which is
a lot easier to when should these laws and
they will get challenged in court.
Now obviously these 12 states do not have
enough electoral votes to swing an election.
Um, although I think combined, they do makeup
for 121 total electors, uh, between all the
states.
Either way, it's a good, a good portion of
them.
181 excuse me, 181 electoral votes short of
the to 70, but not you buy only, you know,
89.
So you get a couple more states to join in
and suddenly this thing has real momentum.
Unfortunately, again, right now all that's
really joining in our blue states and it's
got to be damn near impossible to get red
states to join in because they understand
that doing so would have put an end to the
Bush presidency.
It would have prevented the Trump presidency.
Man, it would have changed the course of the
United States for forever and so they're probably
not going to sign onto this, but there is
always hope cause it may not happen in 2020
and may not happen in 2024 but no state stays
within the grip of a single party for all
eternity.
This is a waiting game at this point and I
know that sucks.
There's dire things happening.
We need this immediately, but sometimes you
can't get it immediately.
So yeah, this is a waiting game, but it's
one that will be well worth the wait.
If we could get some states like California,
Florida, some of the states in the Midwest,
if we can get them to sign on and pass this
same legislation, then suddenly the next presidential
election becomes an entirely new thing altogether.
One in which the electoral college won't matter.
So candidates can spend more time going out
there talking to people they wouldn't otherwise
be talking to.
Maybe because their state doesn't have that
many electors, but they still have voters.
They still have people who want to be treated
like they do matter.
And that's what's missing.
Everyone's vote in this country should matter,
but because of the electoral college, the
way it's currently set up, it doesn't.
You got to be in New York or Florida or Texas,
California, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
You live in those states.
Candidates care about your votes.
Anywhere else may, you might get a visit,
but you're damn sure not going to get the
same kind of attention that people in those
big electoral states get.
And that's why it has to change because those
people who, when you're not just president
of Florida, Texas and California, you're president
of all 50 states and every one of them matters.
Getting rid of the electoral college would
make each state and each voter matter just
a little bit more.
