2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHusted’s latest idea would have handed Ohio to Romney
http://www.plunderbund.com/2012/11/08/husteds-latest-idea-would-have-handed-ohio-to-romney/Defending his performance managing Ohios election, Husted argued that because of the high stakes involved with being an electoral vote-rich swing state, Ohios elections chief is always scrutinized and criticized. (Funny, we dont remember that happening in 2008, but thats beside the point).
This is huge and should raise giant red flags. Under the current winner-take-all system, Obama won all 18 of Ohios electoral votes. Under Husteds plan, 12 of those 18 electoral votes would be handed to Mitt Romney, the popular vote loser.
The reason for this is Ohios incredibly gerrymandered Congressional districts have been drawn to pack Democrats together so they have the majority in only 4 of the states 16 congressional districts. In addition to winning those four assuming Husted would have us adopt the electoral vote allocation used by Maine and Nebraska, the only states to split their EVs by Congressional district Obama would have also gotten the two at-large electoral votes bringing the final tally to 6 for Obama and 12 for Romney.
Ohio needs to get rid of this guy!
LisaL
(44,974 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)And election reform needs to happen before the next election to remove partisanship from states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and several others.
dsc
(52,166 posts)and it was GOP congressmen from PA who shot it down. They didn't like the notion of Obama working their districts for votes and they also didn't like the loss of power for the state as a whole.
Cha
(297,693 posts)All the shit he tried to bully and cheat and Obama WON OHIO. That must chafe is stupid ass.
wrath of medusa
(24 posts)flamingdem
(39,328 posts)It could catch on among repukes
femrap
(13,418 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)In the 1960s, the Supreme Court ruled in a series of "one man, one vote" cases that Congressional districts had to be of equal size. But extreme gerrymandering -- aided by computer algorithms -- has now disenfranchised many voters as surely as the system that those cases overturned.
I realize that the courts have previously found that the Constitution does not provide a basis for overturning districts drawn up by state legislatures. But the current situation, where Congressional districts are discriminatory in intent, result in representation that is wildly out of line with actual numbers of votes for each party, and cannot be corrected by either state elections or a Constitutional amendment, since the state legislatures are themselves gerrymandered, seems to demand some form of judicial action.
GOTV
(3,759 posts)Dr Claw
(51 posts)It's become increasingly clear what his agenda has been. And he tried to fool people into thinking he was "non-partisan", LOL.