re: #181 goddamnedfrank

Only true for certain values of meaningless. Trump’s Presidency will be weakened as a result, viewed as illegitimate and stolen via undue foreign manipulation along with the official complicit corrupt actions of James Comey. If anything this election helped set in motion the destruction of the Electoral College and the incipient overreach by Trump and the GOP will only further undermine and delegitimize this anti-democratic system.

In other words, pandering to the racial prejudices and scientific illiteracy held sacred by a clear minority of hate filled, small state, aging rural voters simply isn’t the answer.

Nope the Electoral College is not going to be overturned. The states with lower populations are not going to pass such an amendment. Start counting states that won’t ratify it, and when you get to thirteen, your amendment fails. That is why several other attempts to eliminate the Electoral College have failed throughout history.

Moreover, states such as mine are not “hate filled, small state, ageing rural voters.” Wasn’t someone here yesterday telling me I shouldn’t paint all Evangelicals with the same brush? Rural states are okay though. Got it.

Hillary Clinton, despite the lack of campaigning on her behalf here, got 34% of the vote. (She did make a campaign stop in Omaha - which has only a minority of the state population.)

Unless and until the Democratic Party actually wants to compete for all the states, they will keep losing those two electoral votes in every state they cede without a fight.