This Yahoo News article talks about how the “Popular Vote Plan” – the idea that all of the agreeing states will cast their electoral votes with the popular vote, regardless of how their state actually voted – is pretty much dead.

Killed by Montana and North Dakota, no less. And no wonder – the reason we have an electoral college is so that the small states actually have a say-so in the election; as the article mentions, if it were any other way then the election would be selected by New York, L.A., Houston, Chicago and Miami. Considering the morons that are voted into the leadership of those towns, well, let’s not be too rash about changing things, eh?

Seriously, the reason for this is that there is a very good reason this country is named the United States – it is a federated republic of soveriegn states, not individuals. As such, the states are the basis of the vote system for the supreme executive. This is not a democracy, it is a democratic republic.

Time to drag out the link to Math against tyranny again, it seems.

Mind you, this is far from the first time the “popular vote” canard has been brought up in this country, and I doubt it will be the last. Good riddance until next time.