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dumbcat

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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.

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