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111Balz
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Don’t think they have enough population between them to decide a vote
Perhaps there is a compromise solution that recalibrates the electoral college to current population distributions
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Will Virginia Drop the Electoral College?
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Hoos Operator
02/18/2020 09:09AM
The same people that shriek about election integrity continue to make it
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HokieDan95
02/18/2020 10:39AM
The shenanigans cut both ways, of course
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Fuzzy Dunlop
02/18/2020 2:58PM
Essentially making VA voters' votes less valuable/impactful than voters
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CharlestonSC
02/18/2020 10:13AM
How dare we treat the Presidential Election like every other US election
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WahooMatt05
02/18/2020 09:41AM
Yay, let’s let California and New York pick our Presidents for us. **
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JMHoo
02/18/2020 09:14AM
It seems odd that any state would surrender their voting/political power
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HWA
02/18/2020 10:11AM
Or, let's let the candidate with the most votes be the winner **
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wahoo138
02/18/2020 09:36AM
Don’t think they have enough population between them to decide a vote
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111Balz
02/18/2020 09:19AM
Truth is, it is calibrated to current population distributions.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 09:58AM
I am not sure how you can say that when millions of voters have their votes
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111Balz
02/18/2020 11:07AM
The electoral college is recalibrated when the House is recalibrated.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 12:06PM
But again this is for one election, one branch of the government.
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111Balz
02/18/2020 12:37PM
Right. Including all those regions that would have no say without the
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 12:57PM
You mean, if the people who choose to live in
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111Balz
02/18/2020 1:17PM
There doesn’t need to be a recalibration
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TomKazanski
02/18/2020 09:22AM
When millions of citizens essentially don’t have a vote
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111Balz
02/18/2020 09:26AM
Don't you think that's what the Va idea would do?
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 10:08AM
I am not in favor of the Va idea, for the reasons you expressed **
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111Balz
02/18/2020 10:53AM
And it would be even worse with a national popular vote
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Faz d. Hoo
02/18/2020 09:39AM
How do you figure? **
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 09:50AM
If you live in "fly over" country, and the coasts + maybe Chicago and a
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 10:12AM
Sounds like you are saying that all the votes in
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 10:21AM
Those are two mutually exclusive scenarios.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 10:34AM
But that was more of an issue of getting "independent states" to give up
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111Balz
02/18/2020 10:59AM
For the very reason that we have Donald Trump. Not a result I like.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 12:02PM
A case can be made that Trump proved the system doesn’t work
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111Balz
02/18/2020 12:39PM
The electoral college provides protections in this day and age
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 1:08PM
So affirmativeaction for rural voters? As for the framers, the also
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 10:53AM
Of course not, but since the vast majority of states that get a say in
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 11:00AM
STATES should not get a say, people should. 10 million farmers spread
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 11:09AM
Yes they should, that's the federalist structure intended.
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hoodeyo
02/18/2020 12:45PM
The nation is organized into smaller political units called states.
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hoolstoptheheels
02/18/2020 11:51AM
Who doesn’t have a vote
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TomKazanski
02/18/2020 09:35AM
His point is that Alabamans and Wyomingites don't really have a vote
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Faz d. Hoo
02/18/2020 09:41AM
And the poor millions of GOPers in CA, NY, IL, etc. **
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Hoodafan
02/18/2020 09:44AM
And Texas and Florida **
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tchoo
02/18/2020 09:18AM
Rather than WI and PA? I have an idea... let's give everybody a vote then
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81_Hokie
02/18/2020 09:20AM
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