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boston bean

(36,961 posts) Thu Dec 15, 2016, 09:57 AM Dec 2016

If the EC is just a rubberstamp, why have the system at all?

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If the EC is just a rubberstamp, why have the system at all? (Original Post) boston bean Dec 2016 OP

Good question. eShirl Dec 2016 #1

It's not just a rubberstamp dumbcat Dec 2016 #2

Why ask rhetorical quesitons? truebluegreen Dec 2016 #3

eShirl

(20,429 posts)

1. Good question.

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 10:01 AM

Dec 2016

dumbcat

(2,161 posts)

2. It's not just a rubberstamp

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 10:05 AM

Dec 2016

It's was (as still is) a mechanism to allow the STATES to elect the President of the United STATES. Some people just cannot accept the fact that the PEOPLE do not elect the President, the STATES do.

If we don't like the system we can change it. The mechanism to change it exists. Just do it.

truebluegreen

(9,033 posts)

3. Why ask rhetorical quesitons?

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2016, 10:06 AM

Dec 2016

The only reason that it was included in the Constitution was to protect smaller population (slave) states from larger ones, and the reason it remains is that it was not an issue, until recently.

And the reason we will keep it now is that it works as designed, and protects the (minority) party in power.

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