Pennsylvania looks to alter electoral vote system

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12. Pa has FIVE democrat congressmen

The state has nearly 1,000,000 more registred Ds than Rs, and the democratic candidate for President has won by good margins for two decades now. This last election, the president and Bob Casey won by over 5 points, but SOMEHOW we had 13 republicans win in the 18 House districts.

This state has BY FAR the worst gerrymanded districts in the country, and it goes to the state level. The state Senate has a MORTAL republican lock, and the House only swings in BIG democratic years.

We got the worst ID law in the state passed and upheld by one jackass judge, who was forced by the state supreme court (which punted it back to him instead of rightly repealing it) to put a one year stay on it. And, while some fought it tooth and nail, overall people just slept through it.

I worked my house and senate guys (both Rs) when this divide the electoral vote thing came up a year ago, and when the morons in Harrisburg put their fingers to the wind they felt the best way to go was the voter ID law.

But, the issue here is a state where people simply are willing to let Republicans be partisan jackasses. The core democratic base is loaded in smaller geographic areas and will come out on the big elections, but the overall populace is more than willing to let republicans run the state however they want.