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Originally Posted by whell
Uh huh. If the situation were reversed and a Dem lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote, the EC would be talked about as the greatest idea ever.
The US is not a democracy. It is a representative republic. The EC was devised to be consistent with idea of a representative republic. The left doesn't get to kick that to the curb just because they lost one election.
I agree with you on the campaign financing laws. Get rid of tax favored status for PAC's and the favored tax treatment of political contributions. That would certainly be a good start.
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I hate to break this to you but the electoral college was there to elect the Pres and VP simply because the framers of the Constitution did not believe that they could trust the Senators to do an honest job of it. The first proposal was to let the Senators elect Pres and VP. Then when it was decided that both be elected by the people the EC probably should have been disbanded but was not.
11-20-2016, 11:22 AM
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