Did you intentionally miss my implication we won’t overall the electoral college when I said it came “bundled” with the creation of the nation or are you simply obtuse? Gerrymandering and voter suppression, which voters can do something about - as evidenced by the links I found within two seconds of a Google search,…

Except when the electoral college was established, along with the two senators per state, the population of the U.S. wasn’t as skewed between high population cities and low population rural areas. 8.5 million people didn’t live in New York City in 1789, for example.

Other than the electoral college, which was bundled with the creation of the United States, nothing else in the system requires Americans to work within “the rules.” The current system was created by Republicans:

He was an exceptional candidate who possessed the ability to get more than enough votes to overcome the inequity of the electoral college.

I am beyond fed up with how the corporate media portrays the electoral weakness of the Democrats. Three million more people voted for Clinton. The Democrats’s problem is the way votes are counted. It’s very hard to win when the Electoral College is weighted toward a rancher and their cows over people in cities, voter…

Everyone knows you learn history by visiting statues in public parks.

These people are truly heroic. I’m disturbed by the thought of crack downs by this administration and their flunkies, though. You know they want to.

Thank you. Been saying this for years, often to fellow (and shocked by the info) progressives, but it’s like spitting into the wind.

Wapo is reporting that Manafort told one of the investigators into Russiagate about the meeting. So the emails might have been leaked from the Justice Department.

Trump is already bald, hence the elaborate comb over.

I’ve been tempted on more than one occasion to create a similar horrible troll account, one that craps on everything dear to progressives, simply to see how quickly I can get posting rights. I never do, though, so I’m in the perpetual greys everywhere.

I agree it isn’t fair or reasonable to get upset with folks who vote third party unless they are these fools who continue to insist that they still can’t see the difference between the two candidates, their consciences are clear and they’d vote the same way again tomorrow.

The US has a binary system. It is a fact that either the Democrat or the Republican is going to win, so it’s entirely reasonable to ask people to vote for either the Democrat or the Republican. And I say this as someone who voted for Nader in 2000 in Florida. I wanted to “send a message!”

I hate answering in the grey, but here goes.

True, but while people are at the polls, they are generally still also voting in their local elections. We need every vote, up and down the line. (Just want progressives to get in the habit of voting every two years.)

The next elections are less than two years away! (And yes, since the GOP has terrible ideas unless you are wealthy, then it’s all gerrymandering and voter suppression, all the time.)

Redistricting happens after a census, which as you note, will be conducted in 2020 again.

Aww. She’s lucky to have you. What a beautiful girl.

Except my dogs not only go to the dog park, which greatly enriches their lives, but also to my office, where they get to lounge and hang out with their person, which they love doing. I mean yeah, sure I want this, but they want it, too.

Your typo “studebts” is the saddest and most ironic typo I think I’ve ever seen.