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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust voting for the dem nom seems a lot easier then having to do all of this to protect a scotus
Seat. Hopefully this will be a memorable lesson about letting perfection kill your nominee.
Autumn
(45,085 posts)than the Republican nominee will win the electoral vote, those are the votes that count. We should focus on making the electoral college fair or do away with it.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)Neither the electoral college or the senate will change, however, because it helps the oligarchs retain absolute power.
Autumn
(45,085 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)do we love our nominee, then we will vote for them.
If some don't, then they will come up with all sorts of grips and tell us the Supreme Court really isn't all that important or enough of a reason because they are a neoliberal or some other thing and there's no real difference between the parties.
Their side gets it all of the time, our side only gets it in extreme duress.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Nothing will. The same mindset that elected Bush in 2000 defeated Hillary in 2016. Ignore their bullshit about Russian interference, the Russians just saw what they did in 2010 and took advantage in 2014 and 2016.