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inthewind21

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36. Healine should

Reply to intelpug (Reply #21)

Wed Sep 27, 2023, 10:56 AM

Sep 2023

read "Big Majority needs civics lessons!"

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Big Majority Favors Moving Away from Electoral College [View all] applegrove Sep 2023 OP

Enough of the minority (least populated) states electing Presidents. no_hypocrisy Sep 2023 #1

What the majority wants in America is meaningless. walkingman Sep 2023 #2

Yep, sure seems that way. mountain grammy Sep 2023 #10

Isn't that the point of the Electoral College? tinrobot Sep 2023 #34

Looking at it closer, conservative Repubs are the only group that like the EC Rstrstx Sep 2023 #3

If we got rid of the EC montanacowboy Sep 2023 #4

11 Scotus? It would still be 5-6. Wonder Why Sep 2023 #14

E C intelpug Sep 2023 #21

I suspect you'll wait a very long time for a cogent response ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 #33

Healine should inthewind21 Sep 2023 #36

Right on, Montana Cowboy! Firestorm49 Sep 2023 #24

Key LiberaBlueDem Sep 2023 #5

Bush won the popular vote in 2004 n/t MichMan Sep 2023 #7

Not his first theft LiberaBlueDem Sep 2023 #8

But if Democrats had won Ohio in 2004... Polybius Sep 2023 #12

What is really weird LiberaBlueDem Sep 2023 #13

The Republicans say that about voting machines now. LeftInTX Sep 2023 #20

yeah, so? LiberaBlueDem Sep 2023 #22

And what will they do when Republicans don't support changing the Constitution? brooklynite Sep 2023 #6

And an even bigger majority in Congress favor keeping it n/t Polybius Sep 2023 #9

Easy. Then change the Constitution. WarGamer Sep 2023 #11

The electoral college was designed by slave owners to protect the rights of slave owners BOSSHOG Sep 2023 #15

Honest answer? Polybius Sep 2023 #16

They always favor an angle BOSSHOG Sep 2023 #17

that means they are lying sacks of shit with "marketplace of ideas" propaganda Recycle_Guru Sep 2023 #18

It doesn't matter...it will never get the votes needed and if by some miracle, it did... Demsrule86 Sep 2023 #19

If we have another EC and popular vote mismatch that puts Dump in the WH next year... roamer65 Sep 2023 #23

agree republianmushroom Sep 2023 #25

Polls are worthless ripcord Sep 2023 #26

We wouldn't have had Trump and G DUHbya but for the electoral college Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2023 #27

Even better Oldvet Sep 2023 #28

I'd like to speak in defense of the Electoral College on a number of points Wonder Why Sep 2023 #29

The only public college the GOP likes. applegrove Sep 2023 #30

A few centuries past time! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2023 #31

Enough to amend the constitution? That's what counts. n/t Phil01 Sep 2023 #32

BIG MAJORITY inthewind21 Sep 2023 #35