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[Hank Fist]

what a stupid idea, makes it so easy to be an Indy, least the big Lug can see the problems with it:


Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and some of his party's legislative majority leaders disagree about legislation that would require Iowa to cast presidential electoral votes for the national popular vote winner, regardless of who carries Iowa.

Culver, a Democrat, said he opposes the change because he thinks it would diminish Iowa as a fall swing state, as it has been for the past several presidential elections.

"If we require our Electoral College votes to be cast to the winner of the national popular vote, we lose our status as a battleground state," Culver said in a statement Tuesday.


Culver, as well as Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro and leading Republicans, said the move would allow candidates to bypass Iowa for higher-population states. Such a change would mute Iowa's concerns in the White House, they said.

Senate File 227 is like legislation that has cleared at least one chamber in 23 state legislatures. The Iowa bill passed the Senate State Government Committee in the Democrat-controlled Senate last week.

Iowa has seven electoral votes, cast by state electors. The votes traditionally go to the candidate who carries the state by popular vote.

The bill would create a compact whereby Iowa would join other states in agreeing to certify their electors for president on the basis of the national popular vote.

Advocates say the bill would prevent situations like the presidential election in 2000, when Republican George W. Bush received fewer votes than Democrat Al Gore.

"It is mystifying to me why anyone would cling to an antiquated, winner-take-all Electoral College system that allows a person to be elected to the presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide," said Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a Council Bluffs Democrat.

[joseph]

the only way i would want to change our current system would be to have a pure general election without an electoral college