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Originally Posted by Guest
Every one is blaming Trump for all the election problems. Well its not. Its every one else. Give it up libs this is the process we have had for years. America voted and this was the out come live with it and wait 4 years and do it again. I do agree get rid of the Electoral College.
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Why? It let "you" win.
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Originally Posted by Guest
So all the small states in the USA should just sit back and be dragged along with the likes of CA/NY??
There is a reason for the electoral college. Discuss an alternative that solves the problem....not just default back to the system that excludes too many voters desires.
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Each state gets one vote. With 26 you win. With 25 each, the popular vote total wins. CA shouldn't overrule 15 states because it happens to be big and coastal...why should Wyoming be 1/15th of California? Are blacks 3/5th a person?
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Electoral College works to some extent but is now mostly just an expression of the wills of each party as they seem to have a great deal of say in who becomes Electors.
That's why Trump was assured election despite what the popular vote was. It is just more party politics and politics as usual. And from his appointments Donald Trump is showing that he is just part of the same old same old group of people mainly looking out for themselves and their friends and families and keeping things just like they have been. No swamp draining here that I see. Bigger government with Donald Trump and more entrenchment of the rich and powerful.
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The parties choose the electors. Answers are easy to get if you try...
"They may be state elected officials, state party leaders, or people in the state who have a personal or political affiliation with their party's Presidential candidate. ... When the voters in each state cast votes for the Presidential candidate of their choice they are voting to select their state's Electors."
U. S. Electoral College: Who Are the Electors? How Do They Vote?
There will be NO draining of the swamp...the swamp just got swampier.