Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast
https://www.foxnews.com/media/polling-guru-nate-silver-predicts-trump-has-64-chance-winning-electoral-college-latest-forecast
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glimse@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
The only people who like the electoral college are people who lose the popular vote
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -11 pts · 1y
glimse@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
What is superior about it at all? That it gives disproportional voting power to a few states?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -8 pts · 1y
glimse@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
...the electoral college keeps the union together...??
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -6 pts · 1y
glimse@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I'm thinking you shouldn't talk about the electoral college until you understand what it does because you're dead wrong
Power IS held by a few states....the swing states...that are made important because the electoral college gives them disproportionate votes. States aren't people and where you live shouldn't matter for the presidential election.
[https://fairvote.org/archives/the_electoral_college-population_vs_electoral_votes/](A vote in Wyoming has the same "power" as 2 1/2 votes from Oregon). What about that sounds right to you?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -8 pts · 1y
amerika@annihilation.social · -2 pts · 1y
@wintermute_oregon @glimse
Diversity killed unity
amerika@annihilation.social · -1 pts · 1y
@wintermute_oregon @glimse
Remember the articles of confederation.
Federalism has always been a tricky balance.
We are the United States, not United Citizens.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -5 pts · 1y
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Ending slavery is not a conservative position by definition. Conservatism means continuing the system that is currently in place and accepted.
amerika@annihilation.social · 1 pts · 1y
@Zeppo @wintermute_oregon
Not correct. Conservatism aims for the eternal. Our system is feudalism, which chattel slavery replaced.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
amerika@annihilation.social · -1 pts · 1y
@LookBehindYouNowAndThen @wintermute_oregon
By definition, the Radical Republicans were progressives.
Back then it had a lot more to do with industry than Communism.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
amerika@annihilation.social · -2 pts · 1y
@wintermute_oregon @LookBehindYouNowAndThen
Democrats were conservative back then.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I guess if you knew basically nothing about US history that would be a convincing statement.
amerika@annihilation.social · -3 pts · 1y
@wintermute_oregon @LookBehindYouNowAndThen
Slavery sucked because it was diversity.
It was also cruel and pointless, since it was low quality labor.
The solution is ending diversity.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -7 pts · 1y
squid_slime@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
aged like fine milk
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee · -2 pts · 1y