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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by nilkn on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:48PM (#20763577)
The above poster is saying that Trump shouldn't have been allowed to be president because he didn't win the popular vote. This means that, under the above poster's scheme, they wouldn't have any president fighting for them at all, and I doubt CA would suddenly start caring about them were that the case. I see this as an abandonment of the poor in favor of the rich and powerful.

If Trump fails, then he fails. But that's a lot different from completely disenfranchising many states when it comes to the presidency.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by krapp on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:28AM (#20767266)
>I see this as an abandonment of the poor in favor of the rich and powerful.

Trump represents the rich and powerful, though, arguably more so than Hillary Clinton, who's rich and elite but not even in the same league as Trump, or as entrenched with multinational business interests (although as far as the common voter is concerned, the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire may be irrelevant.)

And realistically, electing any President based on a laundry list of partisan grievances is going to disenfranchise the rest of the country. The Electoral College is no more or less fair than a popular vote in that regard.

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