Well, the Nevada State Senate has decided to go the way of Delaware, Colorado and a dozen other states by allocating their electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote. The bill will now go to Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak’s desk for his signature. This puts Nevada in 15th placevol state to join this movement (via Hill):
The Nevada Senate passed a bill that would award the state’s Electoral College votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote in the presidential election, sending the bill to the desk of Gov. Steve Sisolak (D-State).
The state Senate passed the measure on Tuesday by a 12-8 majority, CNN reported.
If Sisolak signs the measure, Nevada will become the next state to join the National Popular Vote interstate compact, an agreement among several states to give their Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote.
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The total is now 189, and Nevada’s six electoral votes will bring that total to 195…
Guys, we’re already approaching 270 people. However, some Republicans support an interstate compact on the popular vote. For this right-wing crowd, the reason for this shift is threefold. First, the ever-increasing odds of Florida becoming a blue state, which is on hold due to the 2016 and 2018 election results. The Florida GOP has done a good job of winning key races over the last few cycles. Still, if Florida goes as reliably blue as California, Democrats will have control of the Electoral College. Second, it is about reducing the power of swing states and limiting the flow of bad policies designed to win those states. No Child Left Behind was designed to appeal to Volvo-driving soccer moms in Hamilton County, Ohio. Third, to energize the hundreds of thousands of GOP voters in blue states who tend to stay home because they feel their vote doesn’t count. Without any swing states to moderate or dilute the message, the GOP can run on freedom, less government, less regulation and low taxes. Democrats can advocate abolishing ICE, the Green New Deal, job-killing economic policies, and political correctness. I still think we would have won that argument. It’s certainly a topic worth discussing, and that’s where I’m at in all of this, although I lean towards keeping the system as it is simply because I think it has done a good job electing our leaders. Sour grapes over the 2016 race are a bad, bad reason to change entire institutions.
