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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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:40PM
You seem to be confusing the senate with the presidency.
> fly-over states '
I live in a "fly over state." I don't even live in a big city. And you know what? The only people I ever hear use that phrase are whiners with persecution complexes. toughen up, stop projecting your insecurities on other people and own your shit crybaby
(Score: 1, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:51PM
You don't listen to many libtards then. They know nothing and care less about anything not on a coast.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:26PM
Lol. I am a "libtard."
Own your shit crybaby
(Score: 0, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:52PM
Give us a kiss, sugar. It'll hurt more than your weakass attempts at trolling. Maybe go practice in a mirror some more before you come back.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday November 19 2016, @07:36AM
I read that in Moxxi's voice. Thanks a lot.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by frojack on Friday November 18 2016, @12:03AM
I ever hear use that phrase are whiners with persecution complexes.
That's because the people that invented the phrase, and still use it, would never stop in your little burg - even if the plane was on fire.
Its real, very real. I've got relatives on both coasts that actually think the rest of the country exists only to grow food for them.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @04:02AM
This is a patent lie, since they actually have NO idea where their food is grown.
Signed, a flyover redneck
;)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Funny) by hemocyanin on Friday November 18 2016, @04:43AM
Darn it -- ran out of mod points by the time I got to you. Virtual +1 funny.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @04:59AM
[bowing] We here knows where the eats is, cuz we's got forks in the road... ;)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @10:26AM
Pshaw! Yes, they do. Food is grown at Zabar's [zabars.com].
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @02:24PM
Who knew??! My goodness, they're really expert at it -- look at those prices!
The bones of a conversation I had *twice* while living in SoCal, with nominal adults of apparently-average education:
Them (munching hamburger): Killing animals is wrong!
Me: So where'd you get that hamburger??
Them: McDonald's.
*facepalm*
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday November 18 2016, @06:21AM
>its real, very real
>trust me, I've got anecdotal evidence
Here's some competing anecdotal evidence. I grew up on the west coast, went to college on the east coast. I've had exposure to both the (middle-ish class) ivory tower and the plebeian masses (high school with sea level graduation rates). Yet the first time I heard the term "fly over state" was during this election cycle.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @10:24AM
I've never gotten that attitude from the West Coast. Washington and Oregon have too much exchange with Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, and Utah through blood ties, frequent travel, etc. California's a little different. There you have to break out the Bay Area, LA, and San Diego from the rest of the state. Its north, central valley, and east are like the rest of the West. The Bay Area, LA, and San Diego are not so much dismissive of the rest of the country as self-absorbed.
People in the Northeast are broadly dismissive of the rest of the country, with slight allowances made for the economic and population might of the aforementioned urban areas in California, and a faint footnote for Seattle.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @10:14AM
I live in Brooklyn and hear East Coast natives use the term "fly-over country" with frequency. I grew up in the West and spent my childhood travelling to see relatives in Washington, Oregon, California, and the rest of the intermountain West. I even spent a good bit of time in Texas and the Deep South. But I never even heard of the concept of "Fly-over country" until I went to college in Chicago and my roommate from Philadelphia used it in orientation week; it was a concept that none of us Westerners or MidWesterners seemed to know, but which the people from New Jersey, New York, New England, and DC all did--they used it reflexively.
Washington DC delenda est.