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To: C19fan

LOL!
it was meant to stop states like NY and California from imposing unpopular cheating frauds like Hillary on the entire nation


5 posted on 11/21/2016 8:58:07 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf
it was meant to stop states like NY and California from imposing unpopular cheating frauds like Hillary on the entire nation

Correct. The Founding Fathers strongly feared demagoguery from the cities, and put in the Electoral College to stop that type of mob rule.

13 posted on 11/21/2016 9:02:51 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: silverleaf

LOL!
it was meant to stop states like NY and California from imposing unpopular cheating frauds like Hillary on the entire nation

——with money from other nations & George Soros


41 posted on 11/21/2016 9:24:01 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: silverleaf

I’m sure crooked dems were stuffing ballot boxes with dead peoples names over a hundred years ago..Founding fathers knew it would happen...


49 posted on 11/21/2016 9:40:51 AM PST by Hambone 1934
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To: silverleaf
...it was meant to stop states like NY and California....

Especially California. Read the debates at the Constitutional Convention or The Federalist Papers. Full of fretting about California.

Of course northern California rightfully belonged to Virginia, until the Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended England's territorial claims at the Mississippi River.

I don't think they foresaw block voting by electors, which is what gives California and New York such importance now. Rather they thought men were not likely to know much about politicians in other states so would be likely to vote for men from their home state...which is why the electors had to cast at least one of their two votes for someone not from their own state.

The Framers built better than they knew.

74 posted on 11/21/2016 11:23:09 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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