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Jan 25, 2017 17:22:47   #
ken hubert Loc: Missouri
 
DEBJENROB wrote:
actually he is correct ..... one of the reasons for the establishment of the Electoral College .... was because the United States in the 18th and early 19th century was mostly rural .... voters did not have access to newspapers and because the U.S. was so vast .... candidates could not talk to voters and explain their positions on important matters ..... members of the Electoral College were usually the most informed in a voting district ..... to get some incite as to what the founders of the republic thought ..... you have only to think about a statement by Thomas Jefferson .... democracy to survive depends on an informed citizen (not a literal quote) .... today every voter has available to him or her .... newspapers, tv, radio and each candidate has the ability to campaign in every corner of the nation ... so yes the Electoral College has out lived its usefulness ...
actually he is correct ..... one of the reasons fo... (show quote)


Dream on. If you think we are going to let you lefty wing nuts on the coasts run things, you are very sadly mistaken.

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Jan 26, 2017 00:38:34   #
RRS Loc: Not sure
 
Kalskag2 wrote:
The electoral college has outlived whatever usefulness it once had. The person with the most votes should be President. Time to have a true democracy where every vote counts equally.


No, our founding fathers had the wisdom and saw this coming way back when. As they sat there drinking their tea and wondering if the "Pats" were going to win again this year they also knew that California was so screwed up that they couldn't run their own state and saw to it that they wouldn't screw up America too! Every vote does count but the problem for you and many others that maybe didn't learn in History class is that it's a game of Chess not Checkers. If the Liberal media had not done such a good job of fabricating the mood of the country and if Ms. Clinton, whom I do have a lot of respect for, had known the facts and spent time in the "Rust Belt" she'd be sitting in the White House right now instead of President Trump. Hell, I was shocked when she did not win, how do you think she must have felt. We can't change the rules in the middle of the game just to please some, as the Republicans can't change the number of votes from 60 to 50 either so that they can get their way too.

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