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Obama Suggests Electoral College Is Outdated [VIDEO]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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To: ColdOne

To the collectivists, independence and non-compliance are to be punished, not encouraged.

They do not approve of your thinking. It must be adjusted.

You will enter the collective.

They are Borg.


81 posted on 12/17/2016 11:48:56 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: broken_arrow1

Obama WANTS the whole country to be RULED by California and
the big cities bordering “flyover country”. He’s full of
HIMSELF. The ELECTORAL COLLEGE is GENIUS and the “popular
vote” thing is suicide for “flyover country”. HUSSEIN
OBAMA actually ENCOURAGED illegals to VOTE. He is a
dangerous man.


82 posted on 12/17/2016 1:39:36 PM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: ColdOne
Obama thinks that states are outdated and that we should be ruled as one giant land mass.

-PJ

83 posted on 12/17/2016 1:44:32 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: ColdOne

There is a solution.. Pass a constitutional amendment ‘constitutional law professor


84 posted on 12/17/2016 2:25:06 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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To: ColdOne

We may yet determine that in 2016 the Electoral College was our last line of defense against tyranny.


85 posted on 12/17/2016 6:08:33 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: ColdOne

This Video of Celebs Urging Electoral College to Change Their Votes is So Bad It’s Retroactively Why Trump Won

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3505868/posts


86 posted on 12/18/2016 3:09:17 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: Will88

In the article he seems to imply they should be allocated by districts vs. states.


87 posted on 12/19/2016 8:11:53 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: ColdOne

But it was what got him elected in the first place, it got him the nomination over Hillary in 2008, and I can pretty much tell you if the complete opposite happened this election (Trump Wins popular vote, but loses electoral vote), Obama would praise the electoral college, and all the people salty about it right now would be heralding it as “savior of America”


88 posted on 01/11/2017 8:11:44 AM PST by Mitchy
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