why we need electoral college:Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states

[Weatherman2020]

why we need electoral college:Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states

One person, one vote. People vote - not acres. Or, are acres now people, too? That would make humans competing with corporations and acres.

Only in the world's most advanced democracy can one gather fewer votes and yet win.

And it is telling that some posters on this thread hold their fellow Americans in such disdain. Are they arguing there is a "real America" and a "contemptible America" existing side by side?

As for me, I'll take the places with universities, concert halls, museums and art galleries. The places with major sports franchises and restaurants and cosmopolitan outlooks. They can keep the soy bean fields, the cattle ranches and the trailer parks.

I'm happy so many of you love to be crammed together like sardines in polluted crime infested cities. Makes life so much more enjoyable for the rest of us to spend a quite morning watching the sunrise.

 

[Pogo]

If ever there was an argument for the Electoral College... this may be it.

You didn't even make an argument here, Dumb Shit.
Nor are you even capable of making one.

You gotta spell it out for the braindead lib.

OP makes a reference to "these 41 states" ---- and then forgets to even list any. Typical.
And it wouldn't make a point if he had.

 

[Meathead]

If ever there was an argument for the Electoral College... this may be it.

You didn't even make an argument here, Dumb Shit.
Nor are you even capable of making one.

You gotta spell it out for the braindead lib.

OP makes a reference to "these 41 states" ---- and then forgets to even list any. Typical.
And it wouldn't make a point if he had.

That illustration with the red and gray areas is called a map.

 

[rightwinger]

Really shows what an advantage people in small states have over people who live in cities

It gave us Donald Trump

 

[Meathead]

Really shows what an advantage people in small states have over people who live in cities

It gave us Donald Trump

As if it weren't enough that people who didn't live in urban shitholes didn't already have an advantage.

 

[rightwinger]

Really shows what an advantage people in small states have over people who live in cities

It gave us Donald Trump

As if it weren't enough that people who didn't live in urban shitholes didn't already have an advantage.

What difference does it make where you live?

A vote should be a vote regardless of where you live

 

[Pogo]

Really shows what an advantage people in small states have over people who live in cities

It gave us Donald Trump

As if it weren't enough that people who didn't live in urban shitholes didn't already have an advantage.

What difference does it make where you live?

A vote should be a vote regardless of where you live

More people live in my county seat than in the rest of this rural county.
Therefore their votes should not count.

OP logic.

 

[Pogo]

Really shows what an advantage people in small states have over people who live in cities

It gave us Donald Trump

Why does the word "hayseed" spring immediately to mind....

 

[Pogo]

If ever there was an argument for the Electoral College... this may be it.

You didn't even make an argument here, Dumb Shit.
Nor are you even capable of making one.

You gotta spell it out for the braindead lib.

OP makes a reference to "these 41 states" ---- and then forgets to even list any. Typical.
And it wouldn't make a point if he had.

That illustration with the red and gray areas is called a map.

Maybe he should have posted one.

Again --- wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference. People are what vote -- not acres.

 

[Meathead]

A vote should be a vote regardless of where you live

And so it is.

 

[Meathead]

If ever there was an argument for the Electoral College... this may be it.

You didn't even make an argument here, Dumb Shit.
Nor are you even capable of making one.

You gotta spell it out for the braindead lib.

OP makes a reference to "these 41 states" ---- and then forgets to even list any. Typical.
And it wouldn't make a point if he had.

That illustration with the red and gray areas is called a map.

Maybe he should have posted one.

Again --- wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference. People are what vote -- not acres.

Seriously, you can't see this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO989U1XcAAM_5C.jpg

 

[rightwinger]

A vote should be a vote regardless of where you live

And so it is.

No it isn't

For President, A vote in Wyoming counts five times what a vote in California counts

 

[Richard-H]

If ever there was an argument for the Electoral College... this may be it.

You seem to present a very good reason for eliminating the electoral college.

 

[Nosmo King]

why we need electoral college:Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states

One person, one vote. People vote - not acres. Or, are acres now people, too? That would make humans competing with corporations and acres.

Only in the world's most advanced democracy can one gather fewer votes and yet win.

And it is telling that some posters on this thread hold their fellow Americans in such disdain. Are they arguing there is a "real America" and a "contemptible America" existing side by side?

As for me, I'll take the places with universities, concert halls, museums and art galleries. The places with major sports franchises and restaurants and cosmopolitan outlooks. They can keep the soy bean fields, the cattle ranches and the trailer parks.

I'm happy so many of you love to be crammed together like sardines in polluted crime infested cities. Makes life so much more enjoyable for the rest of us to spend a quite morning watching the sunrise.

It's the Green Acres scenario.

Redirect Notice

 

[Pogo]

You didn't even make an argument here, Dumb Shit.
Nor are you even capable of making one.

You gotta spell it out for the braindead lib.

OP makes a reference to "these 41 states" ---- and then forgets to even list any. Typical.
And it wouldn't make a point if he had.

That illustration with the red and gray areas is called a map.

Maybe he should have posted one.

Again --- wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference. People are what vote -- not acres.

Seriously, you can't see this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO989U1XcAAM_5C.jpg

Nope. I see it now when I click. Was it in the OP?

People who think they make points posting Googly Images still don't get that at least half of them are wiped out by AdBlock Plus. There's no image in the OP on my screen, just a single sentence.

Even with the map it doesn't make the point. Again, there are more people in the county seat of this rustic little county, than in the outlying areas. Should the votes for Sheriff that come from the county seat therefore be trashed, on the basis that they're goddam "city folk"?

Doesn't make any sense.

 

[Richard-H]

The electoral college defies the principal of:

"That all men are created equal"

 

[Pogo]

A vote should be a vote regardless of where you live

And so it is.

No it isn't

For President, A vote in Wyoming counts five times what a vote in California counts

Funny how the same wags who rail against what they think is "socialism" ----- nevertheless want the vote-wealth distributed in Presidential elections, and the irony sails right over their heads.

 

[Care4all]

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I have no problem with the Electoral College and neither did the democrats, until Hillary got beat.

Democratic winning presidents have always won the popular vote along with winning the electoral college....

The Republican presidents as of late, not so much...and that's when it's the issue...when a president doesn't even come close to winning the popular vote of the people yet wins the presidency through the electoral college only...and not by its citizen's choice too or even close to its citizen's choice too....

And it makes sense for there to be discontent among citizens, when that happens....imo

Democrats all reside in very few states. Imagine if the Senate was like the House and based on population by political parties. The Democrats would have about 40 votes. You libs should be thankful that the Senate is as close as it is, or you would become irrelevant.

the problem with the electoral college is the States changed the way they count electoral votes from the original way they were used by our founding fathers....

the Political parties in power, changed their States so that no one or near no one in any of the independent parties can garner any electoral votes, because the states decided to make laws to protect the big two parties within the State.....and made their electoral college votes for the State, as winner takes all electoral votes....

As example, Ross Perot garnered 20 MILLION votes but the way the parties set it up within the states, he got ZERO electoral votes.

THIS IS THE OPPOSITE of what our founding fathers created with the electoral college and Madison's and Adam's intent.....

Also the only electoral advantage of smaller states was suppose to be the 2 extra electors each state was given for their 2 senators....just like in the Senate, small states have equal voice as the largest states because all get just 2 senators.... the advantage given to small states was only suppose to be these two electors given for their two senators.

It's the way the parties manipulated the electoral college in each state, that makes the system not work in allowing the best and the brightest have a chance, becuase of this winner take all electors crud.

 

[Pogo]

The electoral college defies the principal of:

"That all men are created equal"

It does indeed -- more like "all men are created equal but y'all slave states can count those human possessions at a rate of 60% even though they get to vote at 0%".

That was probably too complex to write into the D of I. Won't fit on a bumper sticker.

 

[Pogo]

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I have no problem with the Electoral College and neither did the democrats, until Hillary got beat.

Democratic winning presidents have always won the popular vote along with winning the electoral college....

The Republican presidents as of late, not so much...and that's when it's the issue...when a president doesn't even come close to winning the popular vote of the people yet wins the presidency through the electoral college only...and not by its citizen's choice too or even close to its citizen's choice too....

And it makes sense for there to be discontent among citizens, when that happens....imo

Democrats all reside in very few states. Imagine if the Senate was like the House and based on population by political parties. The Democrats would have about 40 votes. You libs should be thankful that the Senate is as close as it is, or you would become irrelevant.

the problem with the electoral college is the States changed the way they count electoral votes from the original way they were used by our founding fathers....

the Political parties in power, changed their States so that no one or near no one in any of the independent parties can garner any electoral votes, because the states decided to make laws to protect the big two parties within the State.....and made their electoral college votes for the State, as winner takes all electoral votes....

As example, Ross Perot garnered 20 MILLION votes but the way the parties set it up within the states, he got ZERO electoral votes.

THIS IS THE OPPOSITE of what our founding fathers created with the electoral college and Madison's and Adam's intent.....

Also the only electoral advantage of smaller states was suppose to be the 2 extra electors each state was given for their 2 senators....just like in the Senate, small states have equal voice as the largest states because all get just 2 senators.... the advantage given to small states was only suppose to be these two electors given for their two senators.

It's the way the parties manipulated the electoral college in each state, that makes the system not work in allowing the best and the brightest have a chance, becuase of this winner take all electors crud.

And that --- the snowball of WTA states all monkeying the same system each to protect its own favorite sons --- is why James Madison, who structured the EC in the first place, called for a Constitutional Amendment that would abolish the WTA system.