The 2016 Coup Attempt Begins

The Republicans are looking to change electoral vote allocation to favor Republicans in 2016:

Earlier this week, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus endorsed a Republican plan to rig the next presidential election to make it nearly impossible for the Democratic candidate to win the White House, no matter who the American people vote for. The election-rigging plan, which would allocate electoral votes by congressional district rather than by states as a whole in a handful of states that consistently vote for Democratic presidential candidates, would have allowed Mitt Romney to narrowly win the Electoral College last November despite losing the popular vote by nearly four points.

On Monday, seven Pennsylvania Republican state representatives introduced a bill to make this vote-rigging scheme a reality in their state. Under their bill, the winner of Pennsylvania as a whole will receive only 2 of the state’s 20 electoral votes, while “[e]ach of the remaining presidential electors shall be elected in the presidential elector’s congressional district.”

Under this scheme, Obama would have only gotten 7 electoral votes from Pennsylvania.

There would have been similar losses of electoral votes in Ohio, and Wisconsin, Florida, and Virginia.

This is part 94 of why the Electoral College sucks wet farts from dead pigeons.

This also explains why Republicans accuse people of acting like Stalin so often, they are projecting:  Because they try to act like Stalin, they think that everyone else does so too.