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In reply to the discussion: If the Electoral College was to really be designed for fairness [View all]Goodheart
(5,264 posts)19. No. Just no.
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I'm not wealthy. But my brother is. I live in a giver state, he lives in a taker state.
Squinch
Jan 2019
#27
Do you really want Texas, California and New York deciding who your President is?
marble falls
Jan 2019
#3
W's wasn't the EC's fault. It was the Secty of State in Florida and Michigan's doing ...
marble falls
Jan 2019
#11
Only if every state and region were balanced. They are not. The fact is that because of Texas's ...
marble falls
Jan 2019
#14
It ebbs and flows. I got here in 1999. The headlines were: "Democrats gain strength in ...
marble falls
Jan 2019
#31
Do you think that state interests are all the same? Then why are there still agriculteral ...
marble falls
Jan 2019
#40
The EC was set up to prevent two or three states from determining who the President was ...
marble falls
Jan 2019
#42
Why should urban people have the last word on rural policies? Why should a racist white ...
marble falls
Feb 2019
#50
Or just make it like the House of Lords, an interesting artifact of a bygone era with no real power.
Voltaire2
Jan 2019
#26
That's because the Senate was never meant to represent the interests of the people
Revanchist
Jan 2019
#21
My intent was to show that the "argument" I proposed was just as inane as the one we have.
randr
Jan 2019
#45
The difference is only 4% (23 vs 27?) I'd have thought it'd be larger a diff % frankly ...
mr_lebowski
Feb 2019
#52