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Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.
Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:47PM
We could import food from anywhere but your State. You're welcome to compete on agriculture in the free market though.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:49PM
You realize you'd be paying out the ass no matter which state you bought from, yes? They'd have you over a barrel and damned well know it because without them you starve and die.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Friday November 18 2016, @04:47AM
So you have the rightish view with Buzzard, let me give you the lefty view.
Whenever you grow a population density so thick it can't feed itself, it will take what it needs from those surrounding it. The pillage will extend as far and wide as required to sate the city's needs. In other words, cities, for all their faux-progressives, are founded on violence, fueled by violence, and sustained by violence.