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In reply to the discussion: Can Someone Become President With 24% Of The Popular Vote? [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)And I remember back in 04 when many Dems were ecstatic when they thought Kerry could win Ohio... thus having an EC victory and yet still lose the popular vote.
Sure, I've seen Dems complain about the EC but I've seen virtually no liberal Dem EVER go after the very concept of state suffrage as inherently antidemocratic... if you know of any in Congress or in liberal organizations... please cite them. And yet that is just the beginning of trying to flesh out democratic principles. And that's my point. If someone VALUES democracy as the basis of morally legitimate government, then they'd bother to define what it means in practice. So where are all these Dems having these discussions on these basic principles a nation is founded upon? Virtually all Dems... even the liberal ones, take our federal system as a given and don't question it.