On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:24:23 -0500, Califbill
wrote:


Over the years our government has changed. States Rights, seem to have
been killed. How we pick the President has changed somewhat. Used to be
the state legislatures picked the Electoral College members. That mores in
to the citizens of each state voting on the members. Some states have
inner take all, others split the vote. But the we are going the Republic
may have a hard time surviving.

Those were constitutional changes via amendments and over reaching
SCOTUS decisions. I think BAO is just talking about the legislative
process and that is mostly guided by senate and house rules. They are
not even laws.