OuterBanksVol
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He is the master at it.
Sad thing is, the media keeps falling for it every single time.
Oh, I don't know. They took the bait the first 30 times. But now ? Meh, I think people know at this point that he's ALWAYS trolling. He loves the attention. It's what he's all about. So he says stuff he knows is goofy because that gets people to pay attention to him. It's really kind of sad, when you think about it.
We arent a Democracy. Were a constitutional representative Republic. Always have been from our forming documents. The fed does not derive its mandate from the people. It derives it from the states. Thus the electoral college.
And each state can decide how to allocate their electorate. Either proportional or total. The feds have no authority over that Im pretty certain.
There is only one federal elected official. POTUS. And he is not nor ever has been elected by the people
The one smart thing he has said. The people in rural areas votes literally count more. Even though they get more welfare, pay less taxes, and are less educated.
That or reallocate the votes by current population levels. Make it fair so each vote counts the same towards EC votes. Each quarter-million should count for one EC vote or something like that.
Yup. Trump never stepped foot in Cali.California and New York and Fla would get all the attention. If you can flip California by 10% more D or less D you get 1.4 million votes (using 2016 data).
That's more than the total votes from 21 individual states (not combined; 21 states have total votes cast less than 1.4 million).
I completely understand that. Doesn't make my point invalid, though.
The one smart thing he has said. The people in rural areas votes literally count more. Even though they get more welfare, pay less taxes, and are less educated.
That or reallocate the votes by current population levels. Make it fair so each vote counts the same towards EC votes. Each quarter-million should count for one EC vote or something like that.
Possibly. You could be correct if we use a place like New York or California as a guide for the whole country. Especially when a single City or a couple controls the entire state.
The one smart thing he has said. The people in rural areas votes literally count more. Even though they get more welfare, pay less taxes, and are less educated.
That or reallocate the votes by current population levels. Make it fair so each vote counts the same towards EC votes. Each quarter-million should count for one EC vote or something like that.
There's one problem with that: we're the United STATES of America. We elect a Preaident with 50 separate elections that run simultaneously precisely so the central government doesn't become overbearing.
Wtf are you talking about? You apparently just were dying to make a slavery reference.
Make each vote equal. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand the concept. One million votes = 4 EC votes. Each person has the same impact on EC votes.
There's one problem with that: we're the United STATES of America. We elect a Preaident with 50 separate elections that run simultaneously precisely so the central government doesn't become overbearing.
The one smart thing he has said. The people in rural areas votes literally count more. Even though they get more welfare, pay less taxes, and are less educated.
That or reallocate the votes by current population levels. Make it fair so each vote counts the same towards EC votes. Each quarter-million should count for one EC vote or something like that.
There's one problem with that: we're the United STATES of America. We elect a Preaident with 50 separate elections that run simultaneously precisely so the central government doesn't become overbearing.