Why the Electoral College is trash and needs to be removed.

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by Sackeshi, Nov 7, 2018.

  1. RodB

    RodB Well-Known Member Donor

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    You have no clue on how the number of electoral college votes are determined, do you?
     
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    fmw Well-Known Member

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    6. It prevents every national election from putting those you consider the "wrong" people in office.
     
  3. RodB

    RodB Well-Known Member Donor

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    How is it you know what the other 240 million people [sic] want?
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Did you really miss the point or just being obtuse?
     
  5. RodB

    RodB Well-Known Member Donor

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    Sackeshi said he knew what 240 million Americans want. I think he is the only person that knows that, and I asked how he knew?
     
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    mitchscove Well-Known Member Donor

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    If that's all, your beef is nothing compared to building in at least 15 electors that represent Mexico. Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in Blue state sanctuaries where illegals will be counted in the census.
     
  7. Sackeshi

    Sackeshi Well-Known Member

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    Who else would, they are uneducated, with the intelligence of middle schoolers who form towards cliques, hence why they vote for those who steal from them because they make them feel important.

    They should stick to farming our food and stay out of politics! Since as the founders wanted to keep it clear of the uneducated/ignorant/low intelligence people.
     
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    It can happen without a Constitutional Amendment if enough states decide to send electors according to the nation's total popular vote!
     
  9. ocean515

    ocean515 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    My goodness, what a remarkably arrogant and elitist point of view. And you've even managed to warp the intent of the Founding Fathers while expressing it.

    I rarely see someone cancel out all future consideration of their points of view in as few words as you did.
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    Please read about the Great Compromise. If it weren't for the electoral college, we wouldn't have a nation.
     
  11. perdidochas

    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    We don't know that. Presidential candidates (that were smart anyway, unlike Hillary) would have campaigned differently for a popular vote vs. an EC vote. Trump specifically campaigned to get electoral votes, while Hillary foolishly wasted much of her time in California.

    Virginia is a southern state. Not sure your point. Also, you are simply wrong. Our 2nd President was John Adams, and he was from Massachusetts. Are you really that ignorant as to not check SIMPLE facts? Or do you simply not care about the truth. (6th President, Andrew Jackson, was from South Carolina, and 7th President, John Q. Adams, was from Massachusetts as well). That means only 4 of 7 were from Virginia.


    States will change. Red states today, and blue states today could switch in 20 years.
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    If something happened to me in Georgia, but I live in FL, why shouldn't I be able to sue Georgia?
     
  13. Sackeshi

    Sackeshi Well-Known Member

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    How does this cancel out all future consideration for my points of views? I spoke the truth. The only adults that I have seen with no common sense have been rural amendments.
     
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    No you didn't. You arrogantly labeled 10's of millions of people based on your warped and bigoted perspective.

    Perhaps you should look at the first three words in the preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America.

    Canceled and voided.
     
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    Sackeshi Well-Known Member

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    no, because you don't live their.
     
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    How is the Dems super delegates any different than the E.C.? It ensured Hillary would win the nomination before the first vote was cast and the whole Dem primary was a sham.
     
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    Theoretically.

    But, with so many state legislatures controlled by the GOP it seems exponentially unlikely.
     
  18. chris155au

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    Show me the raw data on them being uneducated and of low intelligence.
     
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    Would you have posted this thread if she was president but only won the via college vote?
     
  20. HTownMarine

    HTownMarine Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Because then Democrats would flood the country with illegals promising free everything which would destroy this country and they would win every election...

    "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."

    The EC is meant to not allow the stupid masses control of our government. That's called mob rule, and it has never successfully worked in history.
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    There, not their. You're having problems this morning with facts and spelling.

    That, and it makes no sense whatsoever. Per the 14th Amendment, a citizen of any state has all the rights of the citizens of any state.

    Amendment XIV
    Section 1.

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
     
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    They make perfect sense; the EC is exactly the right system for our republic.
    Let us know when you amend the constitution.
     
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    Ignorant posts like the above are a graphic example as to why the school system needs to re-state their mandatory civics classes.
     
  24. TOG 6

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    No no no!
    He's a highly-intelligent, well-educated man of the world!
    Just ask him!
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There is nothing more comical than listen to some over educated elitist leftie/socialist flap their gums and tell the rest of us deplorables how it "should be"
     

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