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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by UncleMeat on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:57PM (#20770730)
> We are not a democracy, seriously no one wants a democracy of 300 million plus.

I do. This sounds much better than a federation of states with weird layers of indirection based on borders drawn by historical accident or anachronistic geographic boundaries like rivers.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by TbobbyZ on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:33PM (#20772990)
Say you are in the 49% in the democracy that is for a policy, but 51% are against it. Do you really want that 51% to tell you what to do?
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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by UncleMeat on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:00PM (#20782505)
That is preferable to having only the people in a handful of swing states pick the president (who, by executive orders, tells me what to do).
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