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2016 Postmortem

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12. Someone already did that analysis

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 10:51 AM

Dec 2016

And Hillary would have still lost by roughly the same margin.

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If that means that Hillary would win alot of California's electoral applegrove Dec 2016 #1

almost half of Iowa and Ohio's as well. Ken Burch Dec 2016 #2

This is much more likely to happen than abolishing EC. jackson Dec 2016 #3

The Compact will be found unconstitutional, unfortunately Grey Lemercier Dec 2016 #6

There are some constitutional scholars that agree with you, most do not etherealtruth Dec 2016 #20

I would lay wager that a RW SCOTUS (if it gets that far) will strike it down Grey Lemercier Dec 2016 #21

I am not an attorney, nor am I a constitutional scholar; however .... etherealtruth Dec 2016 #22

will read it, thanks Grey Lemercier Dec 2016 #23

I think you can multiply the size of the EC Ken Burch Dec 2016 #14

Yeah, but then we'd get a chunk of TX, where radius777 Dec 2016 #19

It's a good idea, but getting there is almost impossible. DanTex Dec 2016 #11

Someone already did that analysis philosslayer Dec 2016 #12

The limit on the House of 435 needs to be separated from the EC. Persondem Dec 2016 #13

That would require a constitutional amendment. BzaDem Dec 2016 #16

Oh yes, the size of the house is just a statute. BzaDem Dec 2016 #24

problem w/our entire system is blue votes don't matter radius777 Dec 2016 #18

Blue states would split there vote; Red states won't. briv1016 Dec 2016 #25

that is a very bad idea flyingfysh Dec 2016 #26