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Old 11-03-2020, 08:29 PM   #981 (permalink)
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You gotta come up with a better plan than that if you want me to sign on to it. Aint nobody want to see that. Black Mirror is great though.

Uh-oh - Ohio is tightening. And if not Ohio, Trump could pull Michigan.
Would you ever vote for someone who had sex with either McConnell or Pelosi?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 11-03-2020, 08:33 PM   #982 (permalink)
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Would you ever vote for someone who had sex with either McConnell or Pelosi?
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Old 11-03-2020, 08:34 PM   #983 (permalink)
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Would you ever vote for someone who had sex with either McConnell or Pelosi?
Depends if consent was invovled.
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Old 11-03-2020, 08:38 PM   #984 (permalink)
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Don't people have a problem that a president can be elected even though most people haven't voted for them?
Idgaf everyone in America voted for Trump if the EC elected Biden I’d be jumping for joy. I don’t give a **** about popular vote or democracy. I want who I want and I don’t want Trump.
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Old 11-03-2020, 08:40 PM   #985 (permalink)
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Biden will almost certainly win the popular vote

Biden is currently up in Texas and NC FTR

Not that I put much stock in that this early on
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Old 11-03-2020, 08:48 PM   #986 (permalink)
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If you dip**** ****s vote for four more years of this arsehole you can stick your heads up your arse and **** off because I’ve had it with that ****ing moron and you deserve whatever **** you get. See you in four years you ****tards.
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Without going into the mechanics of this convoluted system, is this ever going to change? Is that even possible? Don't people have a problem that a president can be elected even though most people haven't voted for them?
Yep, it's been heavily contested for a while. It's possible to abolish it, but this would have to be enacted by american politicians (2/3 of congress I believe). Not likely to happen since they don't operate in the interests of the people though.

Quick overview of the mechanics: each state gets a certain number of electoral college votes. Most states use a winner take all system where all of their electoral college votes go to the majority winner. This causes a popular vote/electoral college vote split because someone can win (for example) 40 percent of a state's vote which would go toward their popular vote figures, but these votes wouldn't be represented in their electoral college figures because the state's EC votes went to the other candidate.

It was partially designed to keep people like Trump out of office, but it was largely put in place to entice less populous states into joining the country since they were afraid of being drowned out politically by more populated (and urban) states (there are more layers but that's the overview). It's failed at the former and the latter has invalidated the concept of one man one vote. Pretty cool country huh.
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Old 11-03-2020, 09:02 PM   #988 (permalink)
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If you dip**** ****s vote for four more years of this arsehole you can stick your heads up your arse and **** off because I’ve had it with that ****ing moron and you deserve whatever **** you get. See you in four years you ****tards.
See you in eight more years when Biden's centrism leaves us in the exact same position that got Trump elected in the first place.
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See you in eight more years when Biden's centrism leaves us in the exact same position that got Trump elected in the first place.
Still confident in a Biden win?
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Yep, it's been heavily contested for a while. It's possible to abolish it, but this would have to be enacted by american politicians (2/3 of congress I believe). Not likely to happen since they don't operate in the interests of the people though.

Quick overview of the mechanics: each state gets a certain number of electoral college votes. Most states use a winner take all system where all of their electoral college votes go to the majority winner. This causes a popular vote/electoral college vote split because someone can win (for example) 40 percent of a state's vote which would go toward their popular vote figures, but these votes wouldn't be represented in their electoral college figures because the state's EC votes went to the other candidate.

It was partially designed to keep people like Trump out of office, but it was largely put in place to entice less populous states into joining the country since they were afraid of being drowned out politically by more populated (and urban) states (there are more layers but that's the overview). It's failed at the former and the latter has invalidated the concept of one man one vote. Pretty cool country huh.
Thanks! Saves me some googling!
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