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Won't this make Texas less likely to flip blue to stop these kinds of laws?

Does Texas really need to flip blue if the country transitions away from the electoral college? The arguments being made for doing so recently have quite a bit of sense when you think about it.

Good luck actually doing it.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/09/how-to-get-...

Almost all of the states needed to ratify the national popular vote interstate compact have either done so or will do so soon.

It’s definitely not a done deal yet but it’s within reach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...

What states that are left are actually going to sign on?

And do you really think the current Supreme Court would let that stand? It seems unlikely to me.

Individual states are allowed to choose how to apportion their own electoral college votes.

In the pst those votes were allocated proportionally to the votes but now almost all states assign all EC votes to a single candidate.

I’m not sure what the supreme court can do here if the states change the way they want to assign votes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact seems like it would be at least close enough to a problem that the current Supreme Court would kill it.

Is Texas flipping blue a real thing?

Any more than lets say California flipping red?

It was before the abortion law. The trends suggested it would be a battleground state in two to four years. I won't touch on the irony of anti-imperialists colonizing Austin, TX.

The recent voting laws they passed are more of an obstacle towards TX going blue.

True. I see it all as a collective effort to maintain control. In the same vain that firing unvaccinates federal employees is a quiet ideological purge.

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