{"id":1086,"date":"2016-12-20T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2016-12-23T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T16:35:28","slug":"good-news-everybody-we-finally-know-for-a-fact-that-the-electoral-college-has-outlived-its-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/12\/good-news-everybody-we-finally-know-for-a-fact-that-the-electoral-college-has-outlived-its-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Everybody! We Finally Know for a Fact that the Electoral College Has Outlived its Function"},"content":{"rendered":"

I outlined my thinking more fully about two weeks ago\u00a0(here’s the\u00a0post: The Final Test of the Electoral College<\/a>), but I think it’s fair to say that the Electoral College has finally proven itself\u00a0to be, at best, a quaint vestigial<\/p>\n

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growth on the Republic, and at worst a systemic effort at the national level to generally discount the value of votes in the most populous states\u00a0(which are also, incidentally, where the densest populations of immigrants and people of color live) in favor of giving undue weight to those in the least populous (and, entirely coincidentally, predominately white) sections.<\/p>\n

Please contact your state reps<\/a>\u00a0and encourage them to support the\u00a0National Popular Vote.<\/a>\u00a0Abolishing the popular vote has seen support left, right, and center in recent years, including that of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. \u00a0I have it on good word that the\u00a0National Popular Vote<\/a>\u00a0way of going about getting this done is basically the only way it’s gonna happen; support them.\u00a0\"usa-american-flag-waving-animated-gif-26\"<\/p>\n

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I outlined my thinking more fully about two weeks ago\u00a0(here’s the\u00a0post: The Final Test of the Electoral College), but I think it’s fair to say that the Electoral College has finally proven itself\u00a0to be, at best, a quaint vestigial growth on the Republic, and at worst a systemic effort at the national level to generally … Continue reading “Good News, Everybody! We Finally Know for a Fact that the Electoral College Has Outlived its Function”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[39,74,53,40],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}