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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 "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately.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: 2) by edIII on Friday November 18 2016, @06:42AM
That doesn't fit part would be justice, prosperity for the working class, evidence of decreasing income inequality, etc. If I'm suffering that, then there are millions of us curiously suffering in the same way, with the same narratives, the same observations.
Particularly good evidence would've been strong Wall Street reforms and people brought to justice, but that never happened. How many instances of injustice need to occur before it's not confirmation bias? Is Dupont seriously not going to be brought to justice for knowingly poisoning a family across generations? It would help when things like this happen, and we hear of the corruption, that it would be accompanied by the justice.
All it would take is for some things to be getting better, but they've only been getting objectively worse for a long damn time. There have been smatterings of progress, but still a one step forward, three steps back game.
I'll take it all back if things get substantively better for the American worker, we don't lose any of our rights (no stop-and-frisks), we don't create the internment camps, and corporations don't abuse the shit out of us when unchained. Which is highly unlikely given the fact they treat the American worker slightly above dirt.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 18 2016, @11:32AM
We're talking what voters are voting for here, not what they're getting. Unless you think what Democrat politicians do actually has some relation to their platform? Did you vote to live in a surveillance state, outright ignoring the 4th amendment? For prosecuting and persecuting more whistleblowers than all other administrations combined? For the President be able to use the IRS against his political enemies? For drone strikes on American citizens with no due process?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, yo. You really need to get to know some Republicans. They're some of the nicest, most generous people you'll ever meet when you're not calling them assholes.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.