To be clear I didn't say it should be eliminated entirely, but as for what would happen if it was...
Legolas Send a noteboard - 08/07/2024 10:50:57 PM
View original postWhen that direction is to thwart the will of cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, and New York, I'm all for it. When those being disenfranchised are the leftists who think crimes against property should be de-emphasized and those who try to defend their property are liable for arrest for assault, I say good! If those being left behind are these cities where illegals are given up to $1,500 dollars per month while American citizens get zilch, then fuck 'em.
View original postEliminating the Electoral College would mean the candidates that pander to the far left would always win. If that is going to happen, let it happen after I'm dead and gone.
No, it wouldn't - if you look at voters on a simple left to right spectrum, obviously an oversimplification but it'll do for now, the winner of a popular vote presidential election would be whichever candidate could capture the vote of the most centrist voter in the country, the person who had precisely as many voters to his/her right as to his/her left. A far left candidate would definitely not be able to do that, nor one that was too far right.
Among current prominent politicians, more likely winners would be people like Joe Manchin, Nikki Haley, Larry Hogan, Susan Collins, probably a bunch of governors - centrists and moderates.
When the NYT Editorial Board calls for the incumbent President to step down...
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Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
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Re: Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
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Re: Now the Biden campaign is calling the people who are sounding these alarms 'bedwetters'
- 01/07/2024 06:03:52 PM
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That term has been used for months if not years, they didn't just make it up...
- 01/07/2024 11:52:54 PM
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Right, but since Joe (and Donald) probably both wear adult diapers...
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Re: Right, but since Joe (and Donald) probably both wear adult diapers...
- 02/07/2024 03:50:08 PM
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Honestly, the word's been used so much it's an established term by now. Don't think they invented it
- 02/07/2024 08:54:50 PM
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How can you say this with a straight face?
- 04/07/2024 03:24:48 PM
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Very easily, I assure you - though there's a difference between 'did' (past) and 'would' (future)
- 04/07/2024 07:23:44 PM
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Re: Very easily, I assure you
- 08/07/2024 05:35:19 PM
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I'm not fool enough to think I can go toe to toe with you on the Russian-American relationship.
- 08/07/2024 09:33:57 PM
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Security doesn't exist in a vacuum
- 09/07/2024 02:42:36 AM
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Sure, but Russia is a threat to others far more than others threaten it.
- 10/07/2024 09:45:58 PM
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That's actually empirically not true
- 11/07/2024 02:35:23 PM
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You're right that I was thinking of Eastern Europe re: NATO, not Central Asia or the Caucasus.
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Let's not fool ourselves about Montenegro and Macedonia
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A smarter NATO
- 16/07/2024 11:35:46 AM
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Sure, for those two it was clearly more the political factors. For others not, it varied.
- 16/07/2024 06:02:47 PM
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I would pay quite a bit of money for us to switch to even only six months of campaigning. *NM*
- 07/07/2024 01:58:18 AM
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It was a bad debate, but I can't imagine a lot of people are actually swayed by it.
- 07/07/2024 01:56:44 AM
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I'm centrist enough to consider voting Red over voting Blue this year due to
- 08/07/2024 10:51:46 AM
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I've voted Libertarian for President the last two times
- 08/07/2024 02:55:35 PM
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You make a good point about the popular vote.
- 08/07/2024 03:01:42 PM
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Re: You make a good point about the popular vote.
- 08/07/2024 03:26:20 PM
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This is the part that bothers me as well.
- 08/07/2024 03:46:15 PM
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I agree he's putting his ego ahead of the Republic.
- 08/07/2024 04:44:15 PM
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I will vote for who I think will do best at standing up to Xi and Putin.
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Sensible enough as as criterium for your vote - but unsurprisingly I don't agree with the reasoning.
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Your analogy is pretty poor honestly.
- 08/07/2024 04:54:45 PM
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You also are trying to redefine how the score is kept
- 08/07/2024 05:44:02 PM
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Sure, that's how it has always been - doesn't mean it's fair or that the popular vote is irrelevant.
- 08/07/2024 08:06:01 PM
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If popular votes were paramount then Rassemblement National
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FPTP sucks in general, yes, whether in the US, in France, or elsewhere.
- 08/07/2024 09:53:57 PM
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Re: FPTP sucks in general, yes, whether in the US, in France, or elsewhere.
- 08/07/2024 10:34:12 PM
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To be clear I didn't say it should be eliminated entirely, but as for what would happen if it was...
- 08/07/2024 10:50:57 PM
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You're wrong.
- 09/07/2024 01:19:30 AM
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You're still looking at it from the current two-party system framework.
- 09/07/2024 07:17:39 AM
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Re: You're still looking at it from the current two-party system framework.
- 09/07/2024 01:45:33 PM
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I meant California
- 08/07/2024 08:43:35 PM
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The popular vote is the popular vote - one citizen, one vote, wherever they may live.
- 08/07/2024 10:37:56 PM
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I'm concerned about a lot of things.
- 09/07/2024 04:41:03 AM
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From a left of center/liberalish substack author about the Republican national platform
- 09/07/2024 11:15:00 AM
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It's an interesting read.
- 09/07/2024 09:46:47 PM
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It would be an interesting read, if it actually meant anything, but does it?
- 12/07/2024 04:42:21 PM
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James Carville has a pretty interesting suggestion in today's NYT
- 08/07/2024 06:32:51 PM
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I think Biden and his Inner Circle are playing the clock
- 10/07/2024 12:41:20 PM
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I don't care for Biden, but I think that time has long since come and gone. *NM*
- 10/07/2024 02:25:13 PM
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Agreed that it wouldn't be a good idea for Obama and Clinton to take a leading role.
- 10/07/2024 09:49:28 PM
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