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re: "Hillary won this election, and when the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes."

No she didn't. I'll remind you all that absentee ballots in many states are only counted if there are enough of them to change the outcome.

Quite apart from that, the Electoral College is the system used in 2016. I'd be fine with changing that for future elections. But in 2016, it was the system and it dictated how people campaigned. Donald Trump, for example, spent no time campaigning in California, realizing that its votes were pointless to pursue. If the rules were changed so that they did, he would have campaigned there and would STILL be our President. Why? Because his strategists were more intelligent than Hillary's. And because the Electoral College disenfranchises more conservatives than liberals.

In eight or twelve years, when power again returns to the Democrats, watch them NOT do anything about the Electoral College. They know full well it helps them more than it helps the Republicans.

 




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OF COURSE,,,,,,,,,,,,, Dukakis calls for end to Electoral College
By: capt_nemo
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Mon, 14 Nov 16 10:56 AM
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Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, who lost to George H.W. Bush in 1988, re-upped his call to abolish the Electoral College after Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump on Tuesday.

“Hillary won this election, and when the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes. So how come she isn’t going to the White House in January? Because of an anachronistic Electoral College system which should have been abolished 150 years ago,” he wrote Sunday in an email to POLITICO.

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