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Obama Suggests Electoral College Is Outdated [VIDEO]
dailycaller.com ^ | 12/16/16 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 12/17/2016 8:50:27 AM PST by ColdOne

A former constitutional law professor criticized the Electoral College system on Friday, saying that it is a “vestige” of an “earlier vision” of how the U.S. government was going to work.

“The Electoral College is a vestige, it’s a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work that put a lot of premium on states,” President Obama said during an end-of-the-year press conference.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electoralcollege; obozo
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1 posted on 12/17/2016 8:50:27 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Hey Obozo, there still is a lot of premium on states.


2 posted on 12/17/2016 8:52:00 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Sea levels are rising- from liberal tears.)
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To: ColdOne

Yeah well he also suggested that illegals aliens should vote, so....


3 posted on 12/17/2016 8:52:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ColdOne

“Professor”?

Or lesser “Lecturer”?


4 posted on 12/17/2016 8:52:25 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: ColdOne

Again Zero proves he doesn’t believe in the constitution.


5 posted on 12/17/2016 8:52:35 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Rennes Templar

Zero wants the whole country to be California.


6 posted on 12/17/2016 8:53:07 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: ColdOne

The electoral college proved its worth to me by preventing California from stealing the election with illegal votes.


7 posted on 12/17/2016 8:53:32 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (A fool's money and Jill Stein are soon partners.)
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To: ColdOne

The electoral college is only outdated when Democrats lose.


8 posted on 12/17/2016 8:53:48 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: ColdOne

FUBO. It is difficult to believe a moron like this served two terms in this country and his statement shows just how ignorant many people are.


9 posted on 12/17/2016 8:55:12 AM PST by Navin Johnson
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To: ColdOne

EC was the only thing that saved us from 4 more years of POTUS Obozo’s shit!


10 posted on 12/17/2016 8:56:11 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: ColdOne

Then try to amend the Constitution. However, I couldn’t disagree more.


11 posted on 12/17/2016 8:56:54 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: broken_arrow1

And he knows it.


12 posted on 12/17/2016 8:56:57 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ColdOne
The whiny Democrats lost.

The states should have more power, not less.

13 posted on 12/17/2016 8:58:42 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Navin Johnson

Obama knows full well why the regional representation of the Electoral College was put into place. He disagrees with it because it slows the Leftist (pro-Islamist and racist as well) dictatorship he wishes to impose here. He uses his bully pulpit to agitate for popular vote elections, while keeping the borders open and fighting against voter validation through ID and purging of the dead, felons, non-citizens, and the multiply registered from the voting lists.


14 posted on 12/17/2016 8:58:55 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ColdOne

[it is a “vestige” of an “earlier vision”]

OBAMA doesn’t understand that the U.S. CONSTITUTION is GOD-inspired.


15 posted on 12/17/2016 8:59:32 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: ColdOne
“The Electoral College is a vestige, it’s a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to work that put a lot of premium on states,” President Obama said during an end-of-the-year press conference.

The Electoral College is a brilliant and thoughtful feature of our government to prevent bullies from forcing their policies on the rest of the country.

Socialist states with large populations (like California and New York) would ensure the demise of our country by making slaves out of the rest of the country to pay for their ever growing entitlements. Such states tend to give illegal aliens the right to vote to ensure that the working class would be forever their slaves. Is that fair?

Thank God we have an Electoral College!

16 posted on 12/17/2016 9:00:58 AM PST by olezip
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To: ColdOne
If anything, the electoral college is being shown as a bulwark against the tyranny of a few big cities over the rest of the country. Take away four or five counties in California, and Trump wins the popular vote.

The left loves to talk about "community," but if you look at an electoral map, 85% of the communities in the country - mostly medium to small communities - voted for Trump.
17 posted on 12/17/2016 9:02:05 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: ColdOne

Go ahead and say what you really believe Obama - which is that sovereign states are outdated. They would retain states as local administrators with zero power under complete control of the federal government.

At least that is what they want if THEY are controlling the levers of power. What they have not thought through is what happens if Republicans and conservatives control the federal government and start telling California what to do.


18 posted on 12/17/2016 9:02:59 AM PST by plain talk
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To: ColdOne

The removal of the Electoral College is the CORE of communist/socialist/marxist/democratic efforts.

At that point, we will be a democracy - Which was the day 1 goal of... Democrats !

When we have this democracy, we will quickly divide into sub-classes of society. We watched how quickly that could happen with the 2016 elections. If we were a democracy we would have seen most of America become the second-class citizen, or slave, to the elites on the coast.


19 posted on 12/17/2016 9:04:21 AM PST by Celerity
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To: ColdOne

This asshat obviously never took a class in Constitutional Law...


20 posted on 12/17/2016 9:04:38 AM PST by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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