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Virginia Senate committee kills presidential gerrymandering bill
A Virginia Senate committee voted Tuesday to permanently kill a bill that would have aligned the state’s electoral votes with its House districts, a move critics say would have swung the 2012 presidential election for the Republican candidate despite President Barack Obama’s overwhelming victory in the popular vote. The Virginia…
Virginia Republican senators to kill electoral college change
A plan to alter the winner-takes-all Electoral College rules in the state of Virginia is on the chopping block after two Republican state senators on a key committee said they would oppose it, according to The Associated Press. The proposed remake would have changed how electoral votes are tabulated by…
Priebus: Republicans in blue states ‘ought to be’ rigging Electoral College
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus says that conservative lawmakers in blue states like Wisconsin “ought to be looking at” ways to rig the Electoral College system to tilt elections towards Republican candidates in a way that could have allowed presidential candidate Mitt Romney to win. On Sunday, the…
Just curious…
.MSNBC’s First Read reports that there has been a shift to Obama in some of the swing states 270 is the magic electoral count needed to win. The new toss up states leaning Obama are Florida, Indiana, North Carolina (yippie) and Pennsylvania. Likely Obama: CA, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL,…
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