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Liberal Regression: 2008 Democrats Revered the Electoral College
Black & Blonde Media ^ | 12/31/16 | Black & Blonde Media

Posted on 12/31/2016 4:34:12 PM PST by impetrio1

Call it intellectual regression or timely hypocrisy, but there was a time when liberals understood and articulated the wisdom of the very Electoral College system that has them unhinged today.

Although back in 2008, it wasn't about so-called voter suppression of blacks by Republicans. It was even more important: the possible "disenfranchisement" of white Democrats by Hillary's Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at blackandblondemedia.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; electoralcollege; hillary; trump

1 posted on 12/31/2016 4:34:12 PM PST by impetrio1
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Democrats were bragging about their electoral advantage right up until the day of the election. They called it their “great blue wall”. They weren’t even a little bit interested in changing the electoral college until it stopped being advantageous to them. I never heard a single Democratic lamenting about how unfair and undemocratic the electoral college was. I just heard them bragging about their blue wall.


2 posted on 12/31/2016 4:51:39 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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democrats

when we win by the rules the rules are awesome

when we lose by the rules the rules are awful and must be changed


3 posted on 12/31/2016 4:57:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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the video had nothing to do with the electoral college ???


4 posted on 12/31/2016 5:43:23 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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