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Is it time to scrap the Electoral College?
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| 10/21/08
| Tom Curry
Posted on 10/21/2008 11:14:49 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
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To: Jagman
That’s “Dear Great Leader” /puke
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:20:43 AM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(Obamao's pay grade doesn't even come close to Sarah's pay grade, let alone McCain's)
To: Obadiah; Steely Tom; Vaquero; xcamel; jersey117; AT7Saluki; Mr Fuji; Jagman; stefanbatory
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:22:23 AM PDT
by
impeachedrapist
(Bill Clinton, as Arkansas Attorney General did you make Juanita Broaddrick pay for her rape kit?)
To: jersey117
Go sell Communism some place else, Curry. The Electoral College was set up by our Founding Fathers so that all people are represented and have a say on whom they choose to lead this country, even the “rednecks” from the fly over country.
L.A., NYC, and Chicago does not reflect most American’s and what we stand for.
To: AT7Saluki
Here it comes again. If Obama gets in with a dem supermajority in both houses of congress you can expect a big push to get a constitutional amendment pushed out to the states.
To: AT7Saluki
#1—Getting us ready for BO to rid us of the pesky Electoral College? —or— #2-Nervous about a BO loss via college but winning in the popular vote? Scenario #2 will help the media realize their dream of stores, cars and city streets ablaze on Nov. 5.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:23:43 AM PDT
by
albie
To: impeachedrapist
Is this being trotted out because all the goldfish decided to stay home and not vote this year?
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:24:02 AM PDT
by
elk
To: AT7Saluki
Just what we need - a few populous states dictating to the rest of the country who’s to be president. The EC was instituted for the purpose of preventing that scenario.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:24:16 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts")
To: AT7Saluki
“Is it time to scrap the Electoral College?”
No.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:24:20 AM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: AT7Saluki
Gee, it must be an election year...this topic comes up every time.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:24:25 AM PDT
by
jagusafr
("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
To: txroadkill
we live in a deep blue state that will give all its electoral votes to Obama.....I tell my kids they need to vote anyway just to keep the popular vote up.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:24:31 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: The_Reader_David
I think the better thing to do would be to require all states to abide by the Electoral College system in order to prevent what some states have already promised to do: award all of their Electoral votes to the winner of the national popular voter regardless of how the people of that particular state voted. This mob rule mentality must be confronted and defeated!
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:24:54 AM PDT
by
frankiep
(Every socialist is a disguised dictator - Ludwig von Mises)
To: TommyDale
The libs would write a new “constitution” declaring all sorts of rights that aren’t rights -
right to a job (where you live)
right to housing
right to healthcare
right to childcare
right to die
right to kill (abortion)
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:25:04 AM PDT
by
MrB
(0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
To: AT7Saluki
Ah, the Libs would love it. All they have to do is control the Ignorant Masses in the metropolitan areas.
Forget about small town/rural America.
This is the reason the Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College!
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:25:29 AM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
To: AT7Saluki
If I recall my High School Civics correctly, such a change would require a Constitutional Amendment and Ratification by 38 State Legislatures? States that have very little influence (with 3 to 5 electoral votes) on the National Elections would be very hesitant to surrender complete control to the will of the Inner City "Ignoratti"...
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:26:07 AM PDT
by
Friend_from_the_Frozen_North
(If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)
To: AT7Saluki
Their focus? How to better engineer the system... How to better engineer the system...to aid the Democrats.
And, for sure, giving voter fraud a chance to have a nationwide impact would do the trick.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:26:07 AM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: The_Reader_David
Though it might be a salutory reform to force all states to go onto the Maine/Nebraska system. I don't know about that either. Assume that an election ends with the loser being with 10 EVs (maybe within 20 EVs) of being the winner. Imagine the chaos as the parties look around the country to pick out specific congressional districts to contest. Sort mini-Florida 2000 or mini-Ohio 2004, but instead in dozens of congressional districts. Ouch!
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:26:20 AM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: TADSLOS
The librats bring this up every Presidential election cycle
they lose.
Fixed.
To: albie
their dream of stores, cars and city streets ablaze on Nov. 5 those stores, cars, and streets will all be in "heavily democrat representation" areas.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:26:31 AM PDT
by
MrB
(0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
To: AT7Saluki
Yeah sure why not....then no sheople would have to actually get their sorry fat butts off the couch to vote. NY and CA can pick our President and all the politician vote buying can be done there. Yeah, there's a plan only a liberal could love.
Anyone who proposes this has to be an idiot with an agenda aka: loony liberal.
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:26:38 AM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: Huck
Oh, you mean like it was before FDR?
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posted on
10/21/2008 11:27:16 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Vote for Obama so he can spread your wealth!)
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