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2019-02-04 -Land of the Free
Get Rid Of The Electoral College? It Would Lead To The Break-Up Of America, Or Worse
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-04 08:11|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 Powerful, Soviet style central government (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Baltimore) is actually the dem goal.

Our own 'Airstrip One', and the global utopia of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia cannot be realized under the current construct.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-04 08:25||   2019-02-04 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Get rid of the electoral college? A very bad idea. POTUS would always be elected by a handful of large Dem States. The rest of the voters would be disenfranchised. As the Dems go farther left, POTUS would be elected by a handful of States with mostly crazy voters.

Just think, if only the popular vote mattered (and if you included all the stolen votes in the count), Hillary would have been elected last time.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-02-04 10:18||   2019-02-04 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 That's the plan.
Posted by charger 2019-02-04 11:26||   2019-02-04 11:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Being elected by the Electoral College may not reflect the popular vote but it is not a cake walk either. Took 63 million votes for Trump to win it.
Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-02-04 11:48||   2019-02-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Urban Socialist cities would rule the nation and the path to civil war would become certain.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-02-04 12:52||   2019-02-04 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Ever heard of proportional representation - and voter ID?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-04 13:13||   2019-02-04 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 How do you apportion the Presidency?
Posted by Tholuth Noodleman9851 2019-02-04 13:26||   2019-02-04 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Ah, yes. Well, IMO, the problem with POTUS position is that it's actually two jobs: Titular head of state (like British queen) and chief executive.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-04 14:18||   2019-02-04 14:18|| Front Page Top

#9 

Los Angeles county has larger population than all but 6 states

So NO
Posted by Beavis 2019-02-04 14:23||   2019-02-04 14:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I heard that 62 counties (out of 3,142) would control the election.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-02-04 16:25||   2019-02-04 16:25|| Front Page Top

#11 It is cute that Colorado thinks it would have a chair at the table in a nationwide popular vote system.

Southern California, Pennsylvania and northeast of, maybe Great Lakes coastline, and that is all a candidate needs. That is where all those government dollars, vote fraud, and attention will go.
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-04 16:33||   2019-02-04 16:33|| Front Page Top

#12 You want Texas to secede? This is how you do it. Probably take Oklahoma and other states with it.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-02-04 16:52||   2019-02-04 16:52|| Front Page Top

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