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Practically,sure , the

Flavius — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 04:23:51 +0000

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Practically,sure , the electoral college could be dismissed as a King Charles' Head.

But it demeans this country. And I'm enough of a "patriot"/ "chauvinist" (take your pick) to be annoyed by that,

Sensible countries don't tolerate anachronisms which significantly distort current life.

We don't burn witches any more. Even though that might have been the Founding Fathers'

"original intention."

Still don't understand the

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:56:46 +0000

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Still don't understand the big focus on electoral votes.

California has 12.2%, Texas 8.5%, Florida 6.3%, New York 6.2%, Illinois 4%, PA 4%, Ohio 3.6%, Georgia 3.2%, North Carolina 3.1%, Michigan 3.1%. The top 10 states have 53.2% of the population. 5 of them were this year's battleground states. We lost all 5 of the battleground states.

If Trump had campaigned more in Illinois, New York & California under a popular vote election, he may have picked up enough to ignore Michigan.

As important is whether the GOP can disenfranchise voters in the Midwest as much as the south. Can they get the FBI to mangle the vote. ETc.

Constitutional amendments

Obey — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:26:55 +0000

In reply to Ah, irony!

Constitutional amendments required the support of two-thirds of the House and Senate, as well as three-fourths of state legislatures.

So the democratic party managed to lose to an unqualified scandal-ridden sociopathic leader of an extremist white nationalist movement, and is now weaker on both the national and state level. And now you people are saying the strategy we are supposed to coalesce around is to hate on that all-powerful lower east side ping pong hall impressario Susan Sarandon harder, and try to convince this new expanded extremist white national movement to kindly change the electoral system in favor of the democrats.

Very promising.

I don't think you get the

Obey — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:02:49 +0000

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I don't think you get the urgency of the situation. Unless the democrats pick up their game at state level very fast, the party is finished. Redistricting is coming up after the 2020 election and unless the democrats can win back some state houses it will take not a 60% but 70% vote majority landslide to retake Congress.