(01-14-2019, 09:02 AM)jj82284 Wrote: Childish.  Did u watch election night?  Trump was ahead by close to two million votes and the race was called....  Then they counted California.  I think California itself constituted a C + 4 million advantage almost all of her advantage in the popular vote.  

As for eliminating the lines....  Sigh...  State sovereignty mean ANYTHING to u?

I went to bed.  I set an alarm to check a news website at 1 AM for the outcome.  Checked it, went back to sleep instantly.  Either way it meant a lot less to me that my child crying at about that time, as he often did.

The TV news needs things to talk about, and they need them to sound important.  So they amp up that vote total number, that today determines nothing, as if it matters. If we decide it matters, the players will adjust their strategies.  Think about how baseball would change if every base counted as a point. A single would be one, and if that runner made it home, he would have accumulated four points. RBI wouldn't be an important stat anymore. Batting order strategy would change completely.  Attempts to steal bases would go way up. Intentional walks might not be a thing anymore.  Comparing stats before and after would be interesting but would not predict anything about particular players or teams.

State sovereignty does mean a lot to me.  The Senate is the vehicle for state sovereignty.  The Senate would work better in it's intended role of giving the states a check on the feds if senators were appointed by the state government, but there are two really big reasons we don't do it that way now, and libertarians tend to ignore both.  And it works decently well as a check on federal overreach even with direct election.

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