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Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.
Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:22AM (5 children)
No, you won't. That already happens*, and you don't hear people whining about it. Not necessarily because rural people don't whine+, but because the voices that get heard are all urban, even the ones that claim to identify with rural values in order to exploit rural people (e.g. Republican party, Fox News).
*Consider the state laws the rural people of southern Illinois or upstate New York suffer under. Even states without a megapolis are often politically dominated by their two or three largest cities, and rural people often have to put up with (or ignore) laws that could only make sense to a city slicker.
+We don't whine; we air our well-justified grievances. Only a city slicker would accuse us of whining.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday October 07 2018, @02:56AM
And you completely miss my point. With or without the electoral college, and I'm not gonna argue either way, there will be winners and losers. As it is you can win the election without the majority of the popular vote. Don't like it? Work to change it.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:01AM (2 children)
You completely miss my point. With or without the electoral college, and I'm not gonna argue that one either way, there will be winners and losers. Don't like it? Change it. But quit bitching that more people voted for the other guy, cuz it's irrelevant.
Me? I think unless you have the money to "donate" tens or hundreds of thousands of $$$ then your voice really doesn't matter. The 1%ers have figured out how to slice and dice the voters, and they screw the average person over in every election.
IMHO, more effective than changing the electoral college is getting the big money out of politics. I'm more likely to vote for a candidate that gets a thousand $10 donations than I am one who gets 10 $1000 donations. I don't care where they stand on the issues, it means they haven't yet drunk the kool aid.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:20AM
That's odd. I was composing my post and got email. Read it and went back to my post. Now I see my half formed post got posted a few minutes before my final draft.
Whatever, I've been sick for a couple days and I probably fucked up somewhere.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:23AM
Wolf-PAC [wikipedia.org] is still a thing [wolf-pac.com].
(Score: 2) by termigator on Sunday October 07 2018, @06:21PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/upshot/as-american-as-apple-pie-the-rural-votes-disproportionate-slice-of-power.html [nytimes.com]