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2016 Postmortem

sarisataka

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4. It is forgotten that in addition to one person, one vote

Reply to jmg257 (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:52 PM

Dec 2016

(and of course at that time "person" meant white male 99.99% of the time) they also believed in one state, one vote. The system is working as intended.

Luckily they knew that the "Great Experiment" was imperfect and so included a process to make changes.

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Seriously folks, [View all] sarisataka Dec 2016 OP

K and r. nt cwydro Dec 2016 #1

A little research confirmed my memory... sarisataka Dec 2016 #2

People forget how much power the States had early on. Called the "United States" for a reason. jmg257 Dec 2016 #3

It is forgotten that in addition to one person, one vote sarisataka Dec 2016 #4

I believe it was even more restrictive than white males BigBadDem Dec 2016 #6

Isn't this what is mostly going on? NCTraveler Dec 2016 #5

No, what is going on is sarisataka Dec 2016 #8

I haven't seen an argument against this being made. NCTraveler Dec 2016 #11

It's not "whining". The EC is dumb and undemocratic. DanTex Dec 2016 #7

Why didn't we start an Amendment sarisataka Dec 2016 #9

Probably because it would have gone nowhere, and Obama wanted to get ACA passed. DanTex Dec 2016 #10