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2016 Postmortem

CincyDem

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1. It's a way to ensure that the little regressive states that contribute little to the GDP...

Reply to Barack_America (Original post)

Mon Nov 28, 2016, 10:15 PM

Nov 2016

...get to stay relevant. It's an asinine system with such amazingly bad unintended consequences. I also believe that our inability to move beyond it will be our ultimate undoing as a country. I join your rant. It is the cockroach of our system.

Someday, when the future archeologists are surveying the history of what was America...they will conclude the country died but somehow, this thing called the electoral college still seems to have some life in it.

My hope is that day of reckoning is far in the future and my fear is that this election brought it much closer.

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I'm so done with being fucked by the Electoral College. [View all] Barack_America Nov 2016 OP

It's a way to ensure that the little regressive states that contribute little to the GDP... CincyDem Nov 2016 #1

I have been saying for quit a few election cycles PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2016 #2

Time to drop out of Electoral College!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2016 #3

Well cry as you might the Electoral College is here to stay..forever.. pipoman Nov 2016 #4

Yeah, I'm a Midwestern populist so...thanks? Barack_America Nov 2016 #5

Yes they are....37 states will need to be on board with the elimination pipoman Nov 2016 #6

Well, then, it seems to me that you achieve one to get to the other. Barack_America Nov 2016 #7

If you are really interested in considering the needs of rural democrats pipoman Nov 2016 #8

All you need to do is get 2/3 of the House and Senate and 3/4 of the States to agree with you. brooklynite Nov 2016 #9

I like big goals. Barack_America Nov 2016 #10

National popular vote interstate compact pat_k Nov 2016 #11

Except....We have a better chance of being hit by lightning than that happening. Nancyswidower Nov 2016 #12

This, the second the compact goes live it will be fast tracked to a SCOTUS decision Amishman Nov 2016 #13

That assumes the "compact" would go live...it won't. It wouldn't survive the court challanges. Nancyswidower Nov 2016 #14