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Maybe next time, Arizona?
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David Moon, Demand Progress <info@demandprogress.org>
1:43 PM (5 hours ago)
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Jack,
We just finished a presidential election in which President Obama made campaign visits to just eight states after being nominated, and Governor Romney to only 10.

Two-thirds of the campaign visits this fall were to just four “key” states: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Iowa. 100% of the visits were to just 12 “key” states.

This is the time of year when legislators decide which bills to sponsor, so please tell --or remind -- your Arizona legislators to support the National Popular Vote bill. Let’s make 2012 the last presidential election in which four out of five Americans were ignored. For your convenience, we provide a suggested letter (which you can edit).

A voter in Arizona should matter as much as a voter in a “key” state such as Nevada, Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, or Ohio.

Let’s put all 50 stars back onto the flag, including Arizona’s.

Presidential campaigns ignore Arizona because electoral votes are currently awarded to the candidate who gets the most popular votes within each separate state. Candidates ignore states (like Arizona) where they are either comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind and therefore have nothing to gain by paying attention to us and the issues we care about.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states. It would make everyone’s vote equally important. The National Popular Vote bill would ensure that every voter, in every state, will matter in 2016.
The states have the constitutional authority to change the method of awarding electoral votes and thereby establish a national popular vote for President.

The National Popular Vote bill has already been enacted into law by Vermont, Washington State, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, California, Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii. In addition, the bill has passed at least one legislative house in an additional 12 states.

If you believe that a vote cast in Arizona should count as much as a vote cast in a swing state, please take a moment to e-mail your Arizona legislators and officials to tell them to sponsor and support the National Popular Vote bill when it comes up in the Arizona legislature.
The bill has been endorsed by newspapers such as the Oregonian, Hartford Courant, New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee, Daily Astorian, Kent County Times, The Columbian, Connecticut Post, Westport News, Fairfield Citizen News, Baxter Bulletin, Fayetteville Observer, and many more.

As the Sarasota Florida Herald Tribune said: "The most compelling and practical alternative is promoted by a bipartisan group called National Popular Vote. The NPV proposal calls for legislatures to pass bills committing their state's electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide; the bill would take effect only when enacted by states that together have enough electoral votes to elect a president."

Thus, when the National Popular Vote bill takes effect, the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC will be guaranteed a majority in the Electoral College (and thus become President).

So far, the National Popular Vote bill has been enacted by states with 132 electoral votes. This is about half of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring it into effect.

The current system has elected a second-place candidate in 4 of the nation’s 57 presidential elections. That’s 1 in 14.

The National Popular Vote bill fixes the shortcomings of the current system of electing the President while preserving the Electoral College, preserving state control of elections, and leaving our Constitution unchanged.

Your action NOW can make the difference. Please take a moment to e-mail your Arizona legislators and officials to tell them to support and sponsor the National Popular Vote bill.

Learn more at www.NationalPopularVote.com.

Thank you.

Demand Progress and Arizona National Popular Vote
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