If the Virginia legislature succeeds in passing a bill to allocate Electoral College votes by Congressional district, here is what the result could be. According to Charles Blow in a column in today’s New York Times, if the plan had been in effect in 2012, Obama voters would have received 30.7 % of the Electoral College vote as opposed to the 51% of the popular vote actually received. Do the math. It is almost exactly 3/5ths.
If that fraction sounds familiar, it is what the Constitution allowed Southern states to count slaves for purposes of reapportionment.
Would Republicans be that crass? Yes, they would. The Virginia Senate is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. On inauguration day an African-American state senator was in Washington to celebrate. The temporary Republican majority quickly rammed through a gerrymander on a 20-19 vote, permitting almost no debate.
These people have no shame, no morals, no sense of fairness, no honor.
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