USA Election '08: Rigging?

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ckmlb said:
So you think the electoral college is a bad system, but you also are against the proportional splitting of california's electoral votes? What are you for?

Also if California is majority Democrat then this measure wouldn't pass anyway.

The Campaign for a National Popular Vote is campaigning for every state simply to commit its delegates to the Electoral College to vote 100 per cent for the candidate who wins the popular vote.

This would render the Electoral College a forgotten technicality. It's very revealing that when the California state Senate voted to introduce this genuinely democratic system last year, the Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed it, with the support of his party.

There is a real risk they could succeed. They are close to getting the number of signatures they need to secure a referendum in June. (The Los Angeles Downtown News claims to have witnessed signature-gatherers offering homeless people food in return for signing.) The turnout for the referendum is expected to be extremely low, because the statewide primaries usually held on that date have been moved forward to February. So the Republicans only have to activate a small part of their base to push it through -- and they have the cash to do it. California dreamin', on such a winter's day.

I swear, just because the OP is big is no excuse to not read it.  If you can't read through the whole post then don't comment on it.