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crickets

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3. If the decision had gone the way you wanted it to, you would not be talking about this.
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 06:06 PM
Feb 2020

I have no argument with scrapping the Electoral College. It is outdated and thwarts the popular vote.

However, regarding our bicameral Congress:

The Senate is set up to represent land: the individual states. It is the House of Representatives that is set up to represent those states according to population. The two houses balance one another so that small states or states with lower populations are still accorded enough power not to be drowned out by larger, more populous states.

This is intentional, and when relatively honest people hold office, it works.

Our institutions did not let us down here. The PEOPLE in them did.

No one is going to get rid of the Senate. It's not going to happen. Get rid of lousy Senators the same way we get rid of lousy Representatives and lousy Presidents. VOTE.

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