Wednesday, May 31, 2006
A Nice Step Toward Eliminating The Electoral College...
My take on the election of U.S. Presidents can be boiled down to one simple sentence:
Whomever a majority of American voters want to be their President should become their President.That's it.
No anequated system that renders entire states unimportant come election time. Just a majority of American voters choosing their leader.
Toward this end, the California state assembly has taken a big step toward using the national popular vote to cast its state's electoral votes in future Presidential elections.
The California State Assembly became the second legislative body behind Colorado Tuesday to approve their plan to change the way Americans elect a president.Amen.
It started as a dream for these two bay area men. Now, people are actually listening.
Barry Fadem of The National Popular Vote: "If a bill were to be passed and signed into law in California, then we think that would provide significant momentum for this effort."
Like most states, California currently has a "winner-take-all" approach, giving 55 electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins in this state. The proposal would instead give those 55 electoral votes to whoever won the popular vote nationwide, regardless of who Californians voted for.
Assemblyman Tom Umberg sponsored the bill to make the golden state count.
Tom Umberg: "The 11 or 12 battleground states largely determine who's president of the United States. So a very small number of people in the country make a decision for all of us."
Check out National Popular Vote for more information...
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