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Won't this make Texas less likely to flip blue to stop these kinds of laws?
by belltaco 5y ago
Won't this make Texas less likely to flip blue to stop these kinds of laws?
- gamechangr 5y agoIs Texas flipping blue a real thing? Any more than lets say California flipping red?
- iratewizard 5y agoIt was before the abortion law. The trends suggested it would be a battleground state in two to four years. I won't touch on the irony of anti-imperialists colonizing Austin, TX.
- kadoban 5y agoThe recent voting laws they passed are more of an obstacle towards TX going blue.
- iratewizard 5y agoTrue. I see it all as a collective effort to maintain control. In the same vain that firing unvaccinates federal employees is a quiet ideological purge.
- tommymachine 5y agoHard to win (cheat) with all these pesky voting laws going into effect!
- jjeaff 5y agoNo one was cheating before. The voting laws are put in place to disadvantage blue counties while increasing the opportunity to vote in red counties.
- tommymachine 5y agoSeems like you would be able to argue an equal protection case then? Would you complain if you felt it was the other way around? (Hint: no, you wouldn’t, because you’re a cheating democrat)
- corpo_punisho 5y agoDoes Texas really need to flip blue if the country transitions away from the electoral college? The arguments being made for doing so recently have quite a bit of sense when you think about it.
- belltaco 5y agoGood luck actually doing it. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/09/how-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/09/how-to-get-...
- alasdair_ 5y agoAlmost all of the states needed to ratify the national popular vote interstate compact have either done so or will do so soon. It’s definitely not a done deal yet but it’s within reach. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...
- kadoban 5y agoWhat states that are left are actually going to sign on? And do you really think the current Supreme Court would let that stand? It seems unlikely to me.
- alasdair_ 5y agoIndividual states are allowed to choose how to apportion their own electoral college votes. In the pst those votes were allocated proportionally to the votes but now almost all states assign all EC votes to a single candidate. I’m not sure what the supreme court can do here if the states change the way they want to assign votes.
- kadoban 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact seems like it would be at least close enough to a problem that the current Supreme Court would kill it.