I truly wanted to stop using content from electoral-vote.com, but this one just seemed too good to pass up. 

In yesterday’s post they had an item on Canada and how its annexation might affect US electoral politics:

O, Canada

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. Have we mentioned that before? We forget. Donald
Trump is operating on the spheres of influence model, in which the U.S. gets to run the Western
Hemisphere, Russia gets to run Europe, and China gets to run Asia. So naturally he wants to annex
Canada. He hasn’t thought this out very well.

Let us
first consider the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state. If it were one state, it would be geographically the biggest state by far—after all, it is now the second biggest country in the world by area. Texans wouldn’t like being demoted to third place (after Canada and Alaska). They barely tolerate Alaska, but it is far away near the North Pole and, as far as they know, people live in igloos and eat raw walruses, so it doesn’t count. Canada isn’t like that.

The population of Canada is 40.1 million—more than the population of California at 39.4 million.
It would be the biggest new state ever. When new states are added to the union, the allocation of the
House of Representatives is increased to accommodate the new state. Since Canada has more people
than California, it would probably get 52 or 53 House seats. Almost all politicians in Canada are
way to the left of the Republicans and most are way to the left of the Democrats. Private health
insurance? No thanks. Abortion bans? Not going to fly. Probably 40 or more of the new
representatives would either be Democrats or would be a Canadian party that would caucus with the
Democrats. The Republicans would never win the House again. They seem to have missed that. Of
course, Canada would get only two senators, but both would almost certainly be Democrats.

What about presidential elections? There was a
poll of Canadians in October 2024 asking who they would vote for in the U.S. election of they could. The results were Harris 64%, Trump 21%, 15% uncertain. But wait, if Canada got 54 or 55 electoral votes and went with a winner-take-all system, Harris would have won the presidency in a landslide. In fact, if Canada became a state, Republicans could probably never win the presidency again. Or the House. So all the Republicans could hope for would be the Senate.

Now suppose the Canadians were smart and said: “OK, we’ll join, but our provinces and territories
each have their own characters, so each one wants to be its own state.” Canada has 10 provinces and
3 territories, so that would be 13 new states—meaning 26 new senators, probably nearly all of
them Democrats or parties allied with the Democrats. Also, then the number of electoral votes would
be 52 or 53 + 26 = 78 or 79 EVs, probably all of them going to the Democrats. The Democrats would
then have the trifecta permanently and Canada would be such a powerful bloc that it could basically
dictate terms to the rest of Congress. Also, on Jan. 20, 2029, President Trudeau would be
inaugurated. This might not have been what Trump was thinking of.

But none of this is going to happen because Canadians are having none of it. They used to like
Americans, but their love is slipping away on account of Trump and, especially, his tariffs.
Recent
polling shows that Canadians are very skeptical of Trump’s tariffs, much more than Americans. Here are the respective numbers for the questions of whether the tariffs hurt the economy.

As you can see, Canadians are much more negative about all the effects of the tariffs than Americans for all the questions that were asked in both polls. The only number than was under 50% was that only 44% of Americans think they will hurt the U.S. economy. The other 56% was split between “help the economy” (31%) and “neutral” (9%), and “unsure” (16%). (V)

Count me in!

Maybe like Nixon needed to be the one to go to China, TCF needs to be the one to annex Canada.

It sounds like it would be a win-win for everyone. Everyone except the Republicans, that is. But shhhhh! Don’t tell them.

Republicans are very stupid people and they’ll never figure it out for themselves, but someone might tell them about the downsides for them, so we need to get this done quickly.

The way I figure it, Canadians ought to opt for the 13 province/territory solution. Then once they have the power, they can set about remaking the old US of A in their image.

Of course, they’d force every state to change their constitutions to designate them as provinces. Then once that was accomplished, they’d rename this country to the United Provinces of Canada. UPC. (Haven’t I seen that abbreviation somewhere else?)

I mean what’s in a name, as the Bard once said. Right?

And that would only be the beginning.

The beginning of the transformation of this country into the paradise I’ve been dreaming of for over 50 years.

So are you with me, Canada? Act now, before it’s too late!