Hillary Clinton says the Electoral College 'needs to be eliminated'

floridafan said:
President Obama did not lose the popular vote, nor did any other President that i can remember.
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700,000 votes in five states and Obama would never have been president......he won Michigan by 35,000 votes and it was wonderful, but it was horrible that Trump won by 11,000.....
 
cawacko said:
Was reading yesterday that sometime in the '70's removal of the EC was going through Congress and came up five votes short in the Senate or something like that? Anyone remember that?
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it would still require ratification by popular vote in a majority of states......California and New York would approve it.......would anyone else?......
 
floridafan said:
The votes and opinions of the American public are far more important than an electoral college. Thats why it needs to be eliminated. Should the roles had been reversed, you would be demanding an end to the electoral college. Thats just how your kind operates.
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No, they are not.
 
floridafan said:
Did Obama lose the popular vote in either election, as did trump, my dear?
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wtf does the popular vote mean?

that's like the Yankees saying we got 14 hits and you only got 8, and our pitcher threw a 4 hitter and yours gave up 9 hits.

And I say , uhhh look at the scoreboard moron RED SOX 4 Yankees 1..

is there something else you wanted to say?
 
Once again for the last time, the popular vote means everything. It tell just who the voters want, and who they don't. If you don't like the popular vote, try the Russian system, or don't even bother to hold an election
 
floridafan said:
Once again for the last time, the popular vote means everything. It tell just who the voters want, and who they don't. If you don't like the popular vote, try the Russian system, or don't even bother to hold an election
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LOL. Too bad you can't talk to the Founders
 
anatta said:
Hillary Clinton made an argument for dissolving the Electoral College in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night.

"I think it needs to be eliminated. I'd like to see us move beyond it, yes," Clinton said.

Clinton made the assertion while discussing her book, "What Happened," which recounts the turbulent 2016 US presidential election. Clinton lost the Electoral College to Donald Trump, who pulled in 306 votes to Clinton's 236 last November.

The Electoral College has 538 members who select the US president based on the popular vote in every state, as opposed to the national popular-vote tally, which is why a candidate who loses the popular vote can still win an election.

Clinton won the popular vote by nearly three million ballots, an achievement her supporters have frequently called up in protests during the first half-year of Trump's presidency. Clinton herself has touted it — most recently when she promoted the news website, Verrit, an outlet that calls itself "Media for the 65.8 million," a tagline that references Clinton's popular vote total.

The former Democratic candidate is not the first to suggest the Electoral College should be abolished. Al Gore, who won the popular vote in 2000, but still lost the election to George W. Bush, continued to support the current system, until Trump won in 2016.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/hillary-clinton-says-electoral-college-035524117.html
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why at this stage in America's development do we need it ?
 
evince said:
see these fucking idiots hate Democracy
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I will assume as you do not know how to use the quote button you are answering me. With a true democracy there is a real danger in tyranny of the majority. As every failed true democracy throughout history has found out.
Just some history for you.
 
Sailor said:
I will assume as you do not know how to use the quote button you are answering me. With a true democracy there is a real danger in tyranny of the majority. As every failed true democracy throughout history has found out.
Just some history for you.
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the founders created the EC so I guess they hated democracy according to Desh
 
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