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2016 Postmortem

Yurovsky

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4. The math just doesn't work, at least not now...

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 08:02 PM

Dec 2016

no way will smaller states, especially those in the south and Great Plains, give up the disproportionate power the EC grants them. It only takes 1/3 of them to block any amendment that would dissolve the EC.

I'm afraid we'll need an uprising unlike any we've seen in our lifetime to end this travesty of a political dinosaur. It is the vestigial tail of our Republic, only we can't seem to get it surgically removed...

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Virtually ALL Dems and progressives want the Electoral College abolished [View all] Ken Burch Dec 2016 OP

Well that means it will never happen dhol82 Dec 2016 #1

I don't disagree with you. Ken Burch Dec 2016 #2

The math just doesn't work, at least not now... Yurovsky Dec 2016 #4

The electoral college will be abolished, sooner or later. The majority simply won't stand for WestSeattle2 Dec 2016 #3

Unfortunately, probably way too difficult to change in short-term. Hoyt Dec 2016 #5

Why didn't we try between 2004 & 2014? MichMan Dec 2016 #6

It only takes 17 states to stop an amendment kudzu22 Dec 2016 #7

Very few of our Congress critters are in favor of doing away with it? nt doc03 Dec 2016 #8