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Old 12-18-2016, 12:12 PM   #221 (permalink)
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Because the US has an electoral college. That's your system that selects the winner of the presidency.

Copy and paste it or whatever.

Unless you decide to ditch that system and go for a straight majority vote, what's the point even bringing up the majority vote?
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Old 12-18-2016, 12:14 PM   #222 (permalink)
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Because the US has an electoral college. That's your system that selects the winner of the presidency.

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I get your point, but it's a stupid point. We don't want this stupid ****, so pointing at that said stupid **** is the law of the land does not make us think it any less stupid.
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There's arguments for and against it. I tend to like it more than a straight up majority vote, but I think there needs to be some changes to the points being awarded for certain states.
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Unless you decide to ditch that system and go for a straight majority vote, what's the point even bringing up the majority vote?
Because it shows what people actually want. Duh. What's the point in voting at all if the majority vote means nothing?
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Old 12-18-2016, 12:21 PM   #225 (permalink)
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So this thread is basically the donald trump 4 prez thread again. Wonderful.
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Old 12-18-2016, 12:22 PM   #226 (permalink)
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Strange how threads with no real difference between them on the same person are similar.
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Why is a straight popular vote any better or less corruptible than the Electoral College system? Going by the popular vote, the populations of California and New York would determine every single election cycle. Which is another of way saying "if you live in any of these 46+ something other states across thousands of miles, your vote doesn't matter if you don't live in Los Angeles or New York City".

If you want to create even easier, more obvious targets for America's foreign enemies to literally hack our elections in ways you can't even begin to imagine, then I can't think of a better scenario than a popular vote, especially in our society today where the American left are just as easily led by the media as Trump's supporters were led by his rhetoric.
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It's almost like it's pointless to have either.
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Why is a straight popular vote any better or less corruptible than the Electoral College system? Going by the popular vote, the populations of California and New York would determine every single election cycle. Which is another of way saying "if you live in any of these 46+ something other states across thousands of miles, your vote doesn't matter if you don't live in Los Angeles or New York City".
I say: that's life. One man, one vote. More men=more votes. That doesn't change if you live near a lot of other men. What the electoral college says is that if you live in a populous city, your vote is only worth half because you don't live in a sparsely populated area. That's not to mention the loads of people whose votes don't count at all due to the winner take all system. It strips minority rights in that way.
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How so?
1. He brought his daughter along for a face to face meeting with the prime minister of Japan. His daughter just happens to be in negotiations with the largest clothing line in Japan to take on her personal line. Oh, and they are owned by the Japanese government.

2. He's appointed Tillerson for SOS. The dude who had a $500 billion dollar oil deal with Russia put on hold due to sanctions Obama approved. If Tillerson gets in how soon before those sanctions get lifted? And how greased does Trump's palm get?

And he's still about a month from actually becoming the POTUS.

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