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The Constitution is no longer in line with our expectations regarding the role of the people in selecting the president. Yet several previous attempts to eliminate the Electoral College through a constitutional amendment have failed, scuttled by the difficulty of the process itself and the tyranny of small-state logic.

The demise of the U.S. Constitution is the leftist-globalist wet dream.

1 posted on 12/14/2008 6:55:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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Hmmm.... wonder if Soros is a bit worried about all of these citizenship lawsuits?????
2 posted on 12/14/2008 7:04:30 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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Better grab a rag. They are getting close!


3 posted on 12/14/2008 7:05:11 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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He thinks he will be president to ALL Americans? Rubbish.

That joker will NEVER be my President.


4 posted on 12/14/2008 7:05:44 PM PST by Concho (Bitterly Clinging to Guns and Religion)
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I’ve seen it argued that junking the electoral college might actually take the massive power of the big left wing cities away.......Imagine New York City, LA and Chicago, not being the entire voting block of their entire state.


5 posted on 12/14/2008 7:06:25 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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The libs hate it because they haven’t figured how to steal electoral votes yet.


6 posted on 12/14/2008 7:07:15 PM PST by Ikemeister
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My guess is they will try to keep “winner take all” in NY and CA and have proportional representation in the Red States.


8 posted on 12/14/2008 7:12:38 PM PST by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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What am I missing? I thought Obama won.


9 posted on 12/14/2008 7:13:00 PM PST by stevem
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The election and subsequent financial mayhem proves this man correct.

Our Constitution has been neutered.


14 posted on 12/14/2008 7:28:36 PM PST by Coachm
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Haven’t you heard? The dismantling of our constitution is nothing but a nutjob conspiracy theory. Pay no attention to it.

[/sarc]


17 posted on 12/14/2008 7:30:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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It's time to junk Soros.

P8riot

29 posted on 12/14/2008 7:48:08 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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The Electoral College is one of many, many safeguards against tyranny contained in the Constitution. Therefore, it is a target of the left.


38 posted on 12/14/2008 7:57:28 PM PST by redpoll
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it’s time to junk the soroses.


41 posted on 12/14/2008 8:05:11 PM PST by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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Is this bozo related to Georgie? If he is, I think it’s time to “junk” him! In fact, go ahead an “junk” him anyway. I don’t need morons screwing around with MY Constitution. He needs to stick with pondering his genitals and knock off this kind of BS. There is a reason for the Electoral college.


43 posted on 12/14/2008 8:10:22 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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folks: the EC is about small states vs large states, not Republicans vs Democrats. Abolish the EC and Obama wouldn’t talk about “tax cuts” and McCain wouldn’t even try to get the conservative base with Palin.


57 posted on 12/14/2008 9:06:32 PM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
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According to the Constitution, the Fed is to guarantee to the states a republican form of government, The first falf of this was destroyed with the 17th Amendment. The second half would be destroyed by eliminating the electoral college.

We not only need to keep the electoral colloege, buyt we also need to repeal the 17th Amendment.


58 posted on 12/14/2008 9:19:16 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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*Instead, he and John McCain devoted more than 98% of their television ad spending and campaign events to just 15 states which together make up about a third of the U.S. population.*

And if the EC was abolished, they’d spent time in even fewer states.

Do people even think anymore before the type or publish crap like this up?


59 posted on 12/14/2008 9:23:12 PM PST by j-damn
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INTREP


60 posted on 12/14/2008 9:28:20 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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It’s time to clean and inspect another gun. That’s what time it is.


63 posted on 12/14/2008 10:40:39 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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It's Time to Have Soros and His Cohorts Climb the King's Rope.

King Charles I therapy for this kingmaker would also be a satisfactory alternative.

67 posted on 12/15/2008 6:58:59 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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Keep the Electoral College. Toughen up voter registration and identification requirements instead!


74 posted on 12/15/2008 1:57:31 PM PST by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice.)
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