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"I find a little irony that the liberals bemoan the electoral college where six or seven swing states decide the outcome of the election. Their remedy of direct popular vote reduces the deciding factor to just three or four high population states."

Huh?

Maybe you don't understand how a popular vote works. It doesn't depend upon states. It depends upon individual people regardless of where they live. A person's vote in Wyoming is the same as a person's vote in California. When you stupidly vote for Trump, your vote counts the same regardless of which state you are in.

How can you not understand this?

Now, maybe you are just playing dumb because you know Republicans and Trump would constantly lose badly under a popular vote. They have only won one national popular vote in 32 years and they needed the sympathy of 9/11 to do that. Republican policies are very unpopular. The only reason they can win is because of an archaic Electoral College from a long ago different era.

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