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In reply to the discussion: Can Someone Become President With 24% Of The Popular Vote? [View all]Egnever
(21,506 posts)9. In my opinion the defect comes from
The electoral college actually voting according to the popular vote. That is not at all what was intended.
The electoral college is intended to prevent exactly what it has enabled in this last election.it us meant as a bulwark against mob mentality where hopefully cooler heads prevail.
The way it is being done now where it just mirrors the popular vote makes it useless and worse creates outcomes that are detrimental to us.
Not sure if or how to fix what is going on with it now but I do think there is a good reason to have a check on the masses. The general public is very susceptible to mass hysteria.
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With help from Russia and the continuing of gerrymandering it could be possible.
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#1
Gerrymandering and vote suppression YES. And yes it does have to do with Russia
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#3
If you think election integrity is a right wing meme then you're speeding trumps story.
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#13
Im Talking about all the machines the suppression the cross check. The INTEGRITY
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#40
If there were NO voter suppression that would never happen. It's only happened 3 times
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#42
Not saying there is no bias. And the EC should absolutely vote with the winner of popular vote.
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#58
They wrote all men are created equal but what they really meant are only white men
onecaliberal
Jul 2017
#61
Trump job rating in Michigan as of May was 61% unfavorable only 12% positive
stevenleser
Jul 2017
#15
Back in March Trump approval level in Wisconsin was 41% and disapproval was 47%
stevenleser
Jul 2017
#16
That is not correct. You need one more than half the electoral votes to win. Otherwise...
stevenleser
Jul 2017
#18
I did understand what you were saying and my response remains: it's unsupported.
stevenleser
Jul 2017
#53
It'll happen only after a Republican candidate wins the popular vote but loses the EC vote.
NYC Liberal
Jul 2017
#46
"which also deprive the Dems control of the Senate." - are you proposing eliminating states? n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2017
#52
Isn't it absurd enough that the losing candidate got 3 million more votes than the winner?
Tiggeroshii
Jul 2017
#63