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2016 Postmortem

kudzu22

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7. It only takes 17 states to stop an amendment

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 08:52 PM

Dec 2016

Here are 24 I'm pretty sure would never go for it: AK, MT, ID, UT, WY, ND, SD, NE, KS, AZ, TX, OK, NE, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, NC, SC, WV, KY, TN, IN.

So, you'd have to persuade 8 of those AND hang on to all the small blue states like CT, VT, ME, HI, MN, NM, RI, DE and purple ones like IA, WI, NV that currently enjoy their "disproportionate" representation.

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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