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Mayberry Machiavelli

(21,096 posts)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:52 AM Nov 2012

Push all the angry righties you know towards paper ballots and abolishment of the EC.

There is a significant current among angry righties to say the election was stolen. They have no evidence of any of this, it's more a matter that they just can't believe the results so it MUST be that.

I don't want people to think that because I think it causes problems governing for the President and it keeps those people from realizing where they are wrong.

But, if they're going to think things like that, we should utilize their unreasonable bitterness to move the country towards a better election system. If they're going to be paranoid about stolen votes, point out that electronic voting systems with no paper ballot to recount offer the best chance to do this. That a national popular vote makes the votes of people in Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama mattter (as well as New York and California, hehe but you don't have to point that out).

Also, you should ask people promoting the stolen election idea how it was that Obama stole the election in so many huge states run by GOP governors, secretaries of state and legislatures?

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Push all the angry righties you know towards paper ballots and abolishment of the EC. (Original Post) Mayberry Machiavelli Nov 2012 OP
Once Texas goes blue they will be screaming for an end to the EC, except one thing... JaneyVee Nov 2012 #1
Paper ballots perhaps, but they still remember that Gore won the popular vote. n/t PoliticAverse Nov 2012 #2
They hide behind the EC. It's their only hope for the office. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #3
To heck with the angry right...this happy leftie wants this too n/t Sheepshank Nov 2012 #4
 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
1. Once Texas goes blue they will be screaming for an end to the EC, except one thing...
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:54 AM
Nov 2012

They haven't won a popular vote since 1988. LOL, damned if they do, damned if they don't.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
3. They hide behind the EC. It's their only hope for the office.
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 01:08 PM
Nov 2012

It didn't work this time, but without the EC, the GOP would NEVER get elected. They know this.

And the only thing you need to respond to them with is, "At least Obama didn't need to be appointed by the USSC either time. The shrub did both times."

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