re: #185 Anymouse

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.

We don’t need an amendment. Demographic changes in Texas and Florida will doom the EC.

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.

Sorry but I’ve been there. The people are nice as long as you’re white, don’t stand up for your own lack of Christian beliefs and tolerate the endemic racism.

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.)

At 34% no Democrat has any hope whatsoever of taking the State. None-At-All. I get that you think NE and other small mostly rural states deserve Dem Party attention but as a practical matter that needle just isn’t getting moved far enough to carry these States.

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.

Again, there’s no chance in hell that Nebraska as a whole is going D in a general election. I get that you’re feeling better about your neighbors at the moment but a couple months ago you wrote about how you’d been explicitly threatened and you still feel the need to keep a loaded shotgun under your bed just in case these decent people turn on you again. I know it’s not all of them, but it’s enough of them to make direct appeal a lost cause as long as the EC holds sway, and the only thing that’s being ceded to here is a pragmatic assessment of that reality.