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Zing Zing Zingbah

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3. Why did the electoral college make such a poor choice for president?

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Thu May 4, 2017, 09:56 AM

May 2017

The electors are supposed to protect the electorate from their bad choices due to lack of education, etc, but it seems that the roles are reversed. The electorate is actually smarter than the electoral college. If we had popular vote then this whole situation would have been avoided.

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Trump is becoming more and more unhinged. [View all] L. Coyote May 2017 OP

At least Trumpy knows that he can't defend his lies, Eyeball_Kid May 2017 #1

I think those are not his tweets. The staff is doing the political strategy tweeting. L. Coyote May 2017 #2

Why did the electoral college make such a poor choice for president? Zing Zing Zingbah May 2017 #3

The EC has been destroyed zipplewrath May 2017 #4