I have seen writers say that we conservatives are unduly afraid of the National Popular Vote Initiative. To that I reply that our fear is not undue. If the NPV is adopted, then the huge population centers on the coasts (LA, NTC, SF, etc.) will indeed control the vote, rendering the rest of the country without voice.
For proof, I point to my state, Virginia. If you look at the map, 91% of the state is Republican (proof of this claim was seen Monday at the gun-rights rally in Richmond). Yet the governor and both houses are Democrat. Why is this? Because the large population centers, although small in acreage, have more than enough people to control the voting results. Fairfax county, Norfolk, and Richmond are solidly Democrat, and they carry the state.
So for those who want to see what the National Popular Vote Initiative would do, look at Virginia. That is the result.
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I would counter a claim of fear with the fact that most are not “afraid” but find a national vote Unfair.
We could counter with fact that universities admit people in various groups, it is not fully first come, first serve.
Sports leagues do not just pick the team with the best record and name them Champion, there is a playoff.
Even the DNC, that bastion of right-thinking people put their thumb fully on the scales for the preferred nominee and the very presence of super delegates (absent in the Republican party, that den of oligarchs and rich people pulling strings from behind the curtain) shows that the Democrats do not even believe in a true, democratic voice of the people and instead need a mechanism to make sure the “correct” person is picked.
The only thing we fear is the inevitable downfall of the republic when mob rule is allowed unchecked and those idiots in the city starve to death because they don’t know where food comes from.
I understand your position. The reason I used “fear” is because that is what the writers said. And, in fact, I do fear that the NPV will silence 90% of the country.