Michael Moore Urges Support for the National Popular Vote Plan

In this interview in Fast Company, Michael Moore urges the nation to pass the National Popular Vote Plan bill.  He says without it, President Donald Trump will be re-elected in 2020.

Fast Company is a monthly business magazine, which has existed since 1995.


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Michael Moore Urges Support for the National Popular Vote Plan — 7 Comments

  1. Very doubtful. Oregon is the only state with a Democrat governor and legislature that has never passed this anti-Electoral College “National Vote Plan” and they still haven’t passed it.

    The one reform I would support would be at the state level with the winner of the state carries two electoral votes and each of the remaining electoral votes decided in each Congressional district.

  2. Bob, I would go one step further and advocate that each state have unique presidential electoral districts for the entirety of their electoral votes and NO winner take all. Just because each state gets two extra ones to match their Senate representation does not mean that those EVs must be winner take all. With this plan, minor party and independent candidates could realistically run for presidential elector. These contests would be much more local and necessarily be more issue-oriented as per the original plan.

  3. WTA for allocating EVs has to go. Anything else would be an improvement, but I would favor proportional allocation of electors. Electing them by CD or specially made electoral vote districts sounds appealing, but let’s not forget that these districts can be gerrymandered. Congressional districts already are.

    Having said this, I think pure proportional allocation is my favored reform. However, I don’t think it’s achievable because a state would give up too much of its influence. As a modified proposal, I’d be OK with WTA but only for a candidate who got an outright majority of votes cast; proportional otherwise. I would also favor having an option to vote for “none of these” and the votes for “none of these” count in the denominator for determining whether a candidate has a majority.

  4. Alexander Hamilton proposed after 1801 that electors be elected by electoral districts drawn by Congress.

    It is ironic that the so-called Hamiltonian electors were acting more like Burr conspirators.

  5. Two Round would be my preference. A national first round uses single-transferable voting to select the top 4 candidates, nationwide. The second round would use Approval Run-Off Voting (ballots are marked as Limited Run-Off Voting – where you can only rank a maximum of 3 of the 4 candidates – but the first round tally is tallied as Approval Voting treating each rank number as if were simply a mark not a number. If nobody got over 50% of the Approval vote, then it shifts to Instant Run-Off). Each state would award electoral votes based on the second round.

    Vice-President and Secretary of State should be popularly elected, and both should follow the same method, but be off-set from the Presidential vote such that the candidate that comes in second from the presidential vote would be placed in the VP election, and the person who came in third would be placed in the Secretary of State election.

    Not to mention the elections should be moved from November to late April (first round) into May (second round) on a Saturday, and congress should be elected on a separate day then the president/vp/sos (ideally early April).

  6. To get the three-fourths of the state legislatures to pass it, Trump would probably already be in his second term.

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