Proposed solution

[Ibanez]

12 years is a long time?

5 of the last 6 popular elections lost by the right

Yeah, but that's just cherry picking elections.

If you look at the last 13 elections (1968-2016) The GOP has won 6/13 (46%) popular elections.

What's interesting is that the Republicans have all benefited. The Democrats lose the popular vote and the GOP wins.

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OR you can say that Republicans have won 24 Presidential Elections and the Democrats have won 22, Democratic-Republicans won 7 and the Whigs won 4, Federalist 1 and Non-Partisans 1.

John Quincy Adams was a Democratic-Republican then a Republican then a Whig. We've had 4 Whig Presidents, which was the predecessor to the Republican party so...I think overall you can say the Republicans have won more in total. But recently...sure.

[Thumper 76]

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Winner could be who wins the most counties

Interestingly this map is giving my home county a blue when it went heavy red in northern WI.


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[Ibanez]

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Winner could be who wins the most counties

That's a map from 2012.

[Bronco]

Thanks
I thought it looked a little blue

[Ibanez]

Every time I see this thread and JSO, I assume it's titled, " Final Solution."


That was probably a working title.

[BDKJMU]

Hamilton saw the Electoral College as a way of keeping the corrupt out of the office.

Yes, both him and Madison, in a remarkable bit of agreement following Madison's descent into Jeffersonian Republicanism, were both horrified and opposed to when states began to have elector slates that were bound to vote for a particular candidate (so you voted for a declared elector like today). They both always saw the independence of the Electoral College as a plus. But I still think they would've appreciated this outcome.

That James Madison, he was the man..

[DSUrocks07]

Every time I see this thread and JSO, I assume it's titled, " Final Solution."


That was probably a working title.

Well we all know his opinion of people with "low intelligence".

What I'm waiting for is the first liberal to suggest some sort of an "educational requirement" to be able to vote. A "poll test" if you will.

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[SDHornet]

Saw a good post on FB, went something like this:

The electoral college is the affirmative action for historically under represented small states.

Clever.

[YoUDeeMan]

Saw a good post on FB, went something like this:

The electoral college is the affirmative action for historically under represented small states.

Clever.

LOVE IT!

That line will be used when we visit my uber-liberal SIL in Brooklyn.

[HI54UNI]

No.

[HI54UNI]

Saw a good post on FB, went something like this:

The electoral college is the affirmative action for historically under represented small states.

Clever.

[Gil Dobie]

No.