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Jon Husted Hatches a Plan to Make Sure Democrats Never Win Ohio Again
Now that Barack Obama is the official and non-recountable winner in Scott-land, lets fast-forward to the next bundle of mischief the Republicans are going to unleash on citizen innocents from here to the mid-terms. Like a jumping bean on Meth, far-right dirty tricksters are incapable of taking a break from their treachery of cutting Democrats off at the knees.
The red states are going to be the busiest of little bees (jumping beans?) in the continued creation of their latest political depravity. Heres one tactic that is a favorite of Ohios radical right Secretary of State, Jon Husted, arguably the most partisan state politician in the nation.
This is Jons proposal as forwarded to me by an Ohio Professor-Emeritus friend of mine. A little background (spoiler alert: this could be a tad boring). Redistricting takes place every 10 years, right after the Census. The object is to make the population of each district roughly the same, but its really little more than establishing political advantage for the party in power. Most legislatures are the majordomos in the process, though they pretend to listen to input from others. The aforementioned Professor and I were both on an Ohio state commission (called a Politician Commission) for 2000 census redistricting. He had a brilliant and extremely fair apportionment idea that I, alone, supported.
As Ive already explained, the party in power draws up the districts through states and/or commissions to favor their continued power to the greatest extent possible. Back to Husted. Heres what Jon wants to do as tracked by the Daily Kos Meteor Blades from its origins at Plunderbund, a blog self-described as focusing on Ohio and national politics.
According to the above sources, and Im quoting here, The winner of each congressional district is awarded the districts electoral vote. End quote.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/jon-husted-hatches-plan-democrats-win-ohio.html
We have to do our damnedest to make sure that states do NOT do this!
If all the states were to adopt this new way of allocating EVs then there would not really be a presidential election at all - it would end up being which ever party wins The House (the most congressional districts) takes the presidency automatically!
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)She got it right again this year.
garthranzz
(1,330 posts)And be an object lesson.
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)forever and ever.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)to pull that one off. That idea simply makes the electoral college contradictory to itself. It cancels out what it's for.
Cha
(297,378 posts)2014! The Whole Country will Help you..I'm thinking!
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)InsultComicDog
(1,209 posts)Being a swing state with a large number of electoral votes makes a state very relevant and provides advantages to the state which is considered especially important to win favor in.
Splitting the total to make it basically irrelevant negates the state's advantage.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)WA also elected a Democratic Governor and other positions, but with those 2 offices in place to diddle with elections, and a measure that goes against the state constitution and their judge to rule on it, it's going to be rough through 2014.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)1792 French Solution. Calling Madame DeFarge! Calling Madame DeFarge~~ We have a front row seat for you and one to hold your knitting.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)the districts were redistricted and in each case 2 Dems ran against each other. loss of 3 seats is a loss of 3 seats. So I wonder if this is why the GOP has Congress?
mtnlvr1946
(1 post)We did not lose because of the Dem vs Dem races. In California as a whole, Republicans picked up 3 seats, and Democrats picked up 6 for a net gain of 3. This could very well be expanded to a net gain of 5 if the 2 outstanding races continue to go to the Dems.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)I did not mean to sound rude. sorry bout that. angry at something far far away from DU.