Nicodemus
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Switching to a proportional system while keeping the electoral college... what a brilliant idea.Just a food for though.
Where every state is in play.
Switching to a proportional system while keeping the electoral college... what a brilliant idea.Just a food for though.
Where every state is in play.
Switching to a proportional system while keeping the electoral college... what a brilliant idea.
If you had the votes to switch to the system used in the video, you would also have the votes to switch to a popular vote system without electoral college makeup, because the results are pretty much the same.It actually is, this is still major improvement and it has much larger chance that it becomes a reality, since it isn't a complete remake of the system. After all sometimes you have to "cook" step by step. While on the other hand this is pretty much how we elect EU parliament and everything that comes out of it. Every country/state for itself for the most part.
If you had the votes to switch to the system used in the video, you would also have the votes to switch to a popular vote system without electoral college makeup, because the results are pretty much the same.
As usual, I disagree with your assessment. Selling it to the people would be easy: Everybody matters now. Selling it to Congress is the difficult part. There, every Republican would be able to tell, or would be told, that it any such change would spell the end of Republican power on the federal level - because in total numbers, Republicans usually lose elections.Yes, concrete results are pretty much the same, but one "scenario" would be easier to sell to the ones that want to keep it as it is. Since the states are kinda remaining relevant in it. What makes a major difference in trying to pass the change, even if this is pure sugarcoating in a way.
The comments underneath the actual "The Conservative Beaver" article are the kicker, though.
One is claiming Obama and Biden are actually actors and the real guys are already under arrest, another says they are actually dead, one claims Obama is a pedophile and another one demands "They should all be hanged just for being homosexual".
Also, Biden is obviously hiding a police surveillance anklet.
I clicked on it to see if it was satire or genuine crazy but it looks more like clickbait (tons of advertisement!) disguised as crazy disguised as news.
Pelosi and Schumer back $908 billion bipartisan COVID proposal as basis for talks
Way to go "Master Legislator" Nancy Pelosi. If you were gonna cave on a shitty deal from the Republicans, why didn't you cave on the less shitty deal Trump proposed? At least it provided more robust aid for actual people and not just more business relief. Seriously, Democrats continually move forward as Republicans take steps back and say "meet me in the middle", and the Dems cave every goddamn time. You had a better chance at getting things done working with Trump on hill bill and using his power over the Republican voters to pressure his party into voting for his bill -- that would've been the best route. Instead you didn't get any of the things you said you wanted to even from Trump's bill -- in fact you got much less. And you still caved, while dragging this thing out way further than it needed to be at the expense of the people you aren't going to end up helping anyway.
Democrats have come down over 2 trillion and the Republicans have come up 400 Billion thus far.