GOP House Members AFRAID Of LOSING THEIR OWN SEATS Push Back Against Gov.Corbett’s VOTE RIGGING PLAN

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" Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s (R) plan to rig the Electoral College for the GOP by guaranteeing that as many as a dozen of his state’s electoral votes go to the Republican candidate even if the state as a whole votes for Obama. Under Corbett’s plan, each of the state’s 18 congressional districts — which are being gerrymandered to overwhelmingly favor Republicans — would choose how to allocate a single electoral vote rather than having all of the state’s votes go to the winner of the state.


Corbett’s plan may have hit a snag, however. Turns out, GOP members of Congress care more about keeping their own jobs than they do about electing a president who will eliminate Medicare:

o several Republicans in marginal districts, the plan has a catch: they’re worried that Democrats will move dollars and ground troops from solid blue districts to battlegrounds in pursuit of electoral votes — and in the process, knock off the Republicans currently in the seats.


Suburban Philadelphia Reps. Jim Gerlach, Pat Meehan and Mike Fitzpatrick have the most at stake, since all represent districts Democrats won in the last two presidential elections. They and the rest of the Republicans in the delegation are joining with National Republican Congressional Committee officials to respond and mobilize against the change.


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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/15/319666/gop-house-members-afraid-of-losing-their-own-seats-push-back-against-pa-gov-corbetts-vote-rigging-plan/



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[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

There is much regret about Democrats not voting last fall as well as the "swing" voters going over to the GOP.

[Historic NY]

2. Take them out at right at their own doorstep, its time to go after them with cash.

[barbtries]

3. this was on Rachel Maddow.

even if it goes through the unintended consequences could be quite grave for republicans. they should look before they leap; this is a bad idea, not to mention one rooted in bad faith and as Rachel put it, putting a thumb on the scale. bastard republicans have no fucking ethics or shame or compunction. every day i hate them more. and i don't like that.

[tblue]

4. B L O W B A C K ! ! ! !

It's a mofo. Sometimes.

[Sheepshank]

5. Just when the slime bucket GOP think they've got it in the bag...

...someone gets creative and finds a legal leg up on it, and throws a monkey wrench into the plans :)

[saras]

6. It's NOT just the Republicans' fault.

The creation of a system in which a single political party manages redistricting was a stupid idea in the first place, and one that took bipartisan support to implement. I really don't know why so many states choose to do it this way.