PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on August 31, 2019, 05:34:29 PM
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/08/31/msnbcs-chris-hayes-conflates-history-when-explaining-why-the-electoral-college-s-n2552468
Seriously? :o
the MSNBC host asked a live audience. "And the weirdest thing about the Electoral College is the fact that if it wasn't specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional."
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Unbelievably stupid is my response.
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Unbelievably stupid is my response.
But he’s a “journalist”.......
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That dumb fuck, this is the United STATES, not the United PEOPLE. The Senate represents the states and they each get 2 votes; the House represents the people, directly. The president presides over the confederation of states, not the people. Don't they teach civics anymore?
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Don't they teach civics anymore?
Nope.
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Nope.
Teachers haven’t been taught civics, so it is impossible for those pansies to pass it on to anyone.
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/08/31/msnbcs-chris-hayes-conflates-history-when-explaining-why-the-electoral-college-s-n2552468
Seriously? :o
He's an idiot counting on the unwashed masses to accept his bogus view of history.
That said, the author of that article, Beth Baumann, wrote this non-historical zinger: "The Electoral College was established so that large metropolitan areas, like Los Angeles and New York City, don't trample on smaller flyover states like Kansas or Wyoming." She made the mistake of following his lead on Wyoming as an example, which didn't exist when the constitution was written.
The population of the original 13 colonies around the time the became the U.S. (1770 is the last decade they list) is down at the bottom of this page:
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/thirteen-colonies/ (http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/thirteen-colonies/)
Georgia, Delaware, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire were the runts (the latter 3 still are because are physically small) but Virginia was the population heavyweight. Virginia and the larger states felt a union was important enough to give those smaller colonies an equal voice in the Senate. The founders understood the need for compromise and that the states with the majority of the population needed the areas of smaller population. Direct popular vote was just one leg of the stool they built the Republic on - it wasn't supposed to hold the whole thing up.
Liberals like to mention states like Wyoming (Trump) but never mention Delaware, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire (Clinton). Or that a red state like Texas is underrepresented in the electoral college by the same fraction as blue state California. Western red states stand out on a map, while northeastern blue states do not. It wasn't the small electoral states that mattered anyway.
If liberals want to rail against the electoral college - let them - it wont matter for the 2020 election. The probability of the popular vote going one way and the electoral vote the other is, based on history, pretty low.
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If the popular vote mattered with respect to who wins a national election, the every campaign would address it.
It would be stupid to try to win the popular the vote and ignore the electoral college. Kind of like having more hits in a baseball game but fewer runs.
You win the national election by getting more electoral college votes.
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If the popular vote mattered with respect to who wins a national election, the every campaign would address it.
It would be stupid to try to win the popular the vote and ignore the electoral college. Kind of like having more hits in a baseball game but fewer runs.
You win the national election by getting more electoral college votes.
Wait, but I thought football games were won by the team that gained the most yards, not scored the moist points. Now I'm really confused.
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Wait, but I thought football games were won by the team that gained the most yards, not scored the moist points. Now I'm really confused.
yeah, I know, it's just not fair.
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Elections are racist.