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King_Klonopin

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2. The Electoral College functions (barely)
Tue Jan 29, 2013, 07:57 AM
Jan 2013

because it is corrected and weighted according to population
of each state, and it applies to every state in the country.

If these racist states get their way, Black folks are going to
be relegated back to being "3/5ths of a person" once
again... but only in the swing states where republicans
lost.

Romney won 24 states, all really big in size (not population)
Obama won 26 states + D.C.
Sounds close, doesn't it?

Romney won 59.1 million votes.
Obama won 62.6 million votes.
Not so close after all.

Romney won 206 E.C. votes.
Obama won 332 E.C. votes.
That looks like a stomping-of-the-balls, I would say.

Republicans are still trying to convince people that
"dirt votes" (i.e. all the "red" areas in a state -- which
represents dirt, not people who voted.)

Elections are decided by VOTES -- NOT GEOGRAPHIC AREAS!

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