(10-17-2019, 09:53 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-17-2019, 08:44 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: Nah, I don't see it.

Middle America hates the democrats right now and everything they're doing. My staunchest liberal friends have all but given up on Trump losing - because they see the hateful environment both sides have allowed to exist.

That's why Mikesez needs the Electoral College to be abolished, that's the only way the enlightened city dwellers and coastal elites can win.

I never said it should be abolished.

I said it's not working as designed. James Madison commented before he died that no one had intended for states to hold a popular election on a winner-take-all basis, and he was worried that this ruined his system. And today 48 out of 50 states do exactly this.

But my main concern is more how each party selects its candidate. if you add up the results of all of the 2016 Republican primaries Trump got only 45% of the vote.  The Republican National Convention should have been contested, and there should have been horse trading on the floor to see who the nominee would be. If we are going to have a two party system each of those two parties has to do better than that.

But I knew how you probably read all that and thought yourself y"he just said it should be abolished" because in your simple mind there are only two possible opinions on the matter. Either  "it's good and works as designed" or "it should be abolished."

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