RE: Steve Bannon Out As White House Chief Strategist - It's About Time or Does It Matter ?

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Steve Bannon Out As White House Chief Strategist - It's About Time or Does It Matter ?

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"Does it matter?" That is a question I avoid asking myself. After Trump became president even though he lost the popular vote by 3.2 million, does anything matter? Oh well, life goes on. The personal is political but the political is not personal (or at least it shouldn't be).

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    Elections are not decided by the popular vote, if that were the case only the large pop states would matter. The electoral college was created knowing that'd be a problem.

    Until we can create a better system it's the only one that makes sure each state gets representation in presidential elections. I like the idea of replacing the president with a group of people. Get a group of 4-8 people, each elected.

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      The Electoral College was created to protect the slave states. The founders who wrote the Constitution knew that direct elections would be a problem, because there were so few qualified voters in the south.

      Electoral College—a prototype of which Madison proposed in this same speech—instead let each southern state count its slaves, albeit with a two-fifths discount, in computing its share of the overall count.
      Quoted from The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists by Akhil Reed Amar.

      If I can vote directly for Mayor, Governor, Congress Representative, and Senator, I damn well should be able to vote directly for President!

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