Eliminate GM? or Eliminate the Electoral College?
Would Republican Senators kiss off Michigan autoworkers if the electoral college were abolished? This year they hoped McCain could carry Michigan, but when he didn’t, Senators saw no need to treat factories the way they treated banks just three months ago.
Many of Michigan’s own Republican state legistlators have now voted to close the electoral college(scroll down). On the same day the US Senate scorned them, Michigan voted for the National Popular Vote.
When Iowa was a swing state (2000 and 2004), we were unlikely to want the electoral college repealed. If we are now seen as increasingly Democratic, maybe our legislature will also pass the National Popular Vote lest we be left out of the fall campaign. The bill was in our legislature last session but went nowhere.