This is pure dishonesty and against our Constitution-based government, and takes advantage of the poor education that most people have regarding our federal government.

It’s pathetic.

Voters were asked “How do you think we should elect the President: Should it be the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states, or the current Electoral College system?”

By political affiliation, support for a national popular vote was 79% among Republicans, 84% among Democrats, and 75% among others.

By gender, support was 84% among women and 69% among men.

By age, support was 84% among 18-29 year olds, 70% among 30-45 year olds, 75% among 46-65 year olds, and 82% for those older than 65.

With National Popular Vote, everyone would still know where Oklahoma stands. Every vote would be included in the state counts and national count.

Kerry won more electoral votes than Bush (21 versus 19) in the 12 least-populous non-battleground states, despite the fact that Bush won 650,421 popular votes compared to Kerry’s 444,115 votes. The reason is that the red states are redder than the blue states are blue. If the boundaries of the 13 least-populous states had been drawn recently, there would be accusations that they were a Democratic gerrymander.

Oklahoma (7 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 455,000 “wasted” votes for Bush in 2004 — larger than the margin generated by the 9th and 10th largest states, namely New Jersey and North Carolina (each with 15 electoral votes).
Utah (5 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 385,000 “wasted” votes for Bush in 2004. 8 small western states, with less than a third of California’s population, provided Bush with a bigger margin (1,283,076) than California provided Kerry (1,235,659).

Federal law (Title 3, chapter 1, section 6 of the United States Code) requires the states to report the November popular vote numbers (the “canvas”) in what is called a “Certificate of Ascertainment.” They list the electors and the number of votes cast for each. You can see the Certificates of Ascertainment for all 50 states and DC containing the official count of the popular vote at the NARA web site.

Most Americans don’t ultimately care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state or district . . . they care whether he/she wins the White House. Voters want to know, that even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was directly and equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans think it would be wrong for the candidate with the most popular votes to lose. We don’t allow this in any other election in our representative republic.

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No sir, Oklahoma the last 2 times did not give Obama 1 county. The ONLY state the first time AND second time. I know we dont count for much when it comes to points and the larger plan of the nation but by God man, the other 49 states KNOW WHERE OKLAHOMA STANDS. We are Conservative Constitutionally funded. If we are gain say mrs Clinton runs and she dont get 1 county. But all our votes go to her because she wins ny and California and even Florida she gets ALL our points even though not 1 country went her way, it will look like Oklahoma gave up and is just as liberal as NY and California.

No sir, that dont sit right.