Careful What You Wish For

The movement to corrupt the Electoral College rolls on -- today it was Maryland's turn.

The plan, passed Monday by the state House, would take effect only if states representing a majority of the nation's 538 electoral votes adopted the same change.

Some states are considering the move as a way to avoid a scenario in which a candidate wins the national popular vote but loses in the Electoral College, as Democrat Al Gore lost to George W. Bush in 2000.

Supporters of the Maryland bill said the state, which has 10 electoral votes, gets passed over by presidential candidates who head to larger battleground states.

Wrong.  Maryland gets passed over by presidential candidates because it's the proverbial lead-pipe cinch to vote Democrat.  No one bothers spending his time or money there because it would be wasted and this law wouldn't change that.

Now, this is a hypothetical situation and I usually try to stay away from hypotheticals.  But!  Do you suppose for a second that had Bush won the popular vote in 2000 but Gore the electoral vote, that the overwhelmingly Democrat Maryland legislature would have sat back and allowed its states' electors to cast their votes for Bush because of this silly, constitutionally-indefensible law?

Good.  You're learning.