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RE: What if... - 11/1/2012 10:30:57 PM

Edwynn

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Wow, you politicos ...

With out the EC rendering 49% of the vote in each state meaningless and impotent, we could never have gotten to the media's greatest heighth of oversimplification with the "blue state" vs. "red state" thing, one of their crowning achievements in eliminating rational thought from the process, along with 'Madoff-ing' the populace into thinking any of this matters.

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RE: What if... - 11/2/2012 6:25:34 AM

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That's nonsense. Republicans and Democrats compete over the high vote states and ignore the low vote states. It's simply the only way to campaign that makes sense. Look at recent elections, the campaigns have concentrated on the very urban midwest and mid atlantic (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina) while next to no attention is paid to nearby very rural states (Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia) or to rural states in general. In this cycle New Hampshire and Iowa are both within the margin of error in polling but neither campaign is putting much if any effort into either.

Dumping the EC makes every vote equally valuable and would actually make rural votes in urban states important. Consider the rural vote in California, New York and Illinois.

No, the high vote states like New York and California are already decided... as well as the low vote states It is the middle vote states that are contested.

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One man one vote. Why isn't this the way we elect our leader?

I already said why... it will hand the presidency over to the big cities, the little guy out in the country will no longer matter.

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RE: What if... - 11/2/2012 6:29:12 AM

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So is the EC a form of affirmative action for rural folks?

I'm not sure what you've got against affirmative action but if you want to call it that. I prefer to think of it as not screwing over people by cutting them out of the political process.

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