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99th_Monkey

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31. I would agree with you more

Reply to Proud Liberal Dem (Reply #30)

Sun Jan 27, 2013, 04:16 PM

Jan 2013

if it were not for the Electoral Collage chicanery going on right now, to award
delegates piece-meal by Congressional District, rather than "winner takes all"
at the state level. <-- (this is my rudimentary understanding of what's now
happening).

I see that you are also aware of this, where you say "GOP can't continue with
their extremism without bald-faced cheating (which, of course, they're working
on as we speak)".

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/26/1496981/electoral-college-rigging/?mobile=nc

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Get real. Let's face it. We are DOOMED. But are we really? [View all] 99th_Monkey Jan 2013 OP

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