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Old 11-18-2016, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by ZeroJunk View Post
Yep.


You know the next one is going to be a move to abolish the electoral college by the left. And, despite what happened in 2000 and this year it is quite possible that in the long run a Republican has better odds in the popular vote since the Democrats get 100% of the electoral votes fairly reliably in the largest states with some variable percentage of the popular vote.
I know that for right wingers political advantage is all that counts but I'd be willing to risk political advantage for the sake of fairness. There's nothing fair about a 'democracy' in which loser gets a couple million more votes than the winner.
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