You know that the electoral college is a vestige of slavery days to equalize the south with the more populated north? Today it tips the scale to smaller states and a Wyoming vote counts 3.6 times as much as a Californian.
The shit needs to be abolished.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.You know, it is really more about metropolitan mentality vs rural than it is region vs region. California has a lot of big city populace to outweigh their small towns and countryside. I, too, would love to see the electoral college abolished but am not holding my breath.
MikeInBatonRouge
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Nov 9, 2018
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The electoral college was designed as an oversight of our election process. It wasn't based on slavery it was based on distrust of the common voter. The Senate was established to give slave states equal representation in one congressional body and the 3/5 rule was a compromise to give those same states more representation in the House of Representatives. That compromise also gave them a greater number of electoral votes.
The purpose for the electoral college was to insure that we, the people, didn't elect a demagogue who would profit from the presidency at the expense of the country. It is obviously a failure.
JimG
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Then, what do you call Trump? [lh3.googleusercontent.com] Lee Scott AirForceNurse1 here and [facebook.com] Lee Everett Scott
JimG:
@AirForceNurse1 read my last sentence.
1[lh3.googleusercontent.com] An electoral college by the Rich! And For The Rich! That keeps people ignorant! Bend over and Fucked the People over! It is an out of date system and needs to go straight popular vote! Lee Scott AirForceNurse1
@AirForceNurse1 You are a typical foul mouthed liberal.
An antiquated system that does not serve the population.
NorCalFreethinker
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more than 60% of all VOTERS, only decide about 40% of the SENATE SEATS.
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