tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post7156284834096592748..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: A thought for independents, libertarians, and Castle Republicans in Delaware in Election 2012 . . . .Steven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-35118990998255324202012-05-03T19:37:13.449-04:002012-05-03T19:37:13.449-04:00Delaware and other small states would be very fool...Delaware and other small states would be very foolish to adopt NPV. We currently have three times as much influence in Presidential elections as we would under NPV.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06653459162258850269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-56478004686663549942012-05-03T19:30:52.584-04:002012-05-03T19:30:52.584-04:00"George Wallace (14% in 1968 and the only thi...<i>"George Wallace (14% in 1968 and the only third-party candidate in my life to win any electoral votes)"</i><br /><br />Not true. The Libertarian ticket of John Hospers & Tonie Nathan received one Electoral vote in 1972.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06653459162258850269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-57198239868154926472012-04-30T13:26:30.824-04:002012-04-30T13:26:30.824-04:00Independents, libertarians, and Castle Republicans...Independents, libertarians, and Castle Republicans in Delaware, if you want your vote to count, support the National Popular Vote bill.<br /><br />Presidential elections don't have to be this way.<br /><br />The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).<br /><br />Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. No more distorting and divisive red and blue state maps. There would no longer be a handful of 'battleground' states where voters and policies are more important than those of the voters in more than 3/4ths of the states, like Delaware, that now are just 'spectators' and ignored after the primaries.<br /> <br />When the bill is enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes– enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538), all the electoral votes from the enacting states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.<br /> <br />The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for President. Historically, virtually all of the major changes in the method of electing the President, including ending the requirement that only men who owned substantial property could vote and 48 current state-by-state winner-take-all laws, have come about by state legislative action.<br /><br />In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls in closely divided Battleground states: CO – 68%, FL – 78%, IA 75%, MI – 73%, MO – 70%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM– 76%, NC – 74%, OH – 70%, PA – 78%, VA – 74%, and WI – 71%; in Small states (3 to 5 electoral votes): AK – 70%, DC – 76%, DE – 75%, ID – 77%, ME – 77%, MT – 72%, NE 74%, NH – 69%, NV – 72%, NM – 76%, OK – 81%, RI – 74%, SD – 71%, UT – 70%, VT – 75%, WV – 81%, and WY – 69%; in Southern and Border states: AR – 80%,, KY- 80%, MS – 77%, MO – 70%, NC – 74%, OK – 81%, SC – 71%, TN – 83%, VA – 74%, and WV – 81%; and in other states polled: CA – 70%, CT – 74%, MA – 73%, MN – 75%, NY – 79%, OR – 76%, and WA – 77%. Americans believe that the candidate who receives the most votes should win.<br /><br />The bill has passed 31 state legislative chambers in 21 states. On June 7, 2011, the Delaware House of Representatives approved the National Popular Vote bill. The bill has been enacted by 9 jurisdictions possessing 132 electoral votes - 49% of the 270 necessary to go into effect.<br /><br />NationalPopularVote <br />Follow National Popular Vote on Facebook via NationalPopularVoteInctotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12247335901450384827noreply@blogger.com