Welcome to the Democracy of Califorination.

The Electoral College could be inching closer to extermination as California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday that would award the state's 55 electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.

The bill would take effect only if the states that hold a majority of the 538 electoral votes approve similar legislation. With California's addition, that total now stands at 132, almost 49 percent of the 270 needed



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residenttroll wrote: The Electoral College could be inching closer to extermination as California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday that would award the state's 55 electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.

The bill would take effect only if the states that hold a majority of the 538 electoral votes approve similar legislation. With California's addition, that total now stands at 132, almost 49 percent of the 270 needed



Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/ ... z1UVPiB9No

What are you so afraid of? That a Republican will not be able to steal another Presidency?

Rural/small states would never sign onto this plan. It lessens their influence.

Is the presidential candidate going to visit Nebraska and promise them goodies when he already knows those electoral votes will go to his opponent?