The Hawaii State Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 1956, which would turn all of Hawaii's electoral college votes over to whichever presidential candidate won the national popular vote.

Given Hawaii's tiny population, would mean that Hawaii's votes would virtually always go to whoever won on the Mainland.

Only four Democrats in the legislature voted against this bill (Reps. Bellati, Berg, Manahan, and McKelvey), even though in the most recent presidential election this bill would have given all four of our electoral votes to George Bush, despite John Kerry winning this state by a comfortable margin.

In fact, the only time Hawaii has voted for a Republican for president was during the 1984 landslide election, when Reagan won 49 states.

If I was a Democrat, and the Democrat representing me voted to disenfranchise me by periodically handing over Hawaii's votes to a Republican presidential candidate who had lost the vote in Hawaii, I'd never vote for such a blithering idiot ever again.

In fact, I'd run against that Democratic incumbent in the 2008 primary, under the slogan "(insert blithering idiot's name here) endorsed George Bush and Dick Cheney" -- with some fine print explaining the nuances, of course. Now that would be a landslide!