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Two magazines in one![W:29]

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late said:
But your OP was all about them not being consistent....

So tell us, oh sage of the internet, what do you use for sources, for they most be outstanding in the field!
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So, let's all make note that his OP has no sources...
 
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Lachean said:
Only losers or the mob want a repeal of the Electoral college.
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So Donald Trump's a loser? I agree.
 
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Lachean said:
I see that you're the former.
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"The Electoral College would likely have been jettisoned long ago were it not for the fact that, prior to the 21st century, the winner lost the popular vote only three times, all of them way back in the 19th century...
The sample is less than scientific, but one can’t help noticing that popular-vote losers make subpar presidents. The 19th-century crop (John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison) did not, historians tend to agree, rank high in achievement... How did we end up with such a screwy system? Blame slavery. It’s considered bad manners in Washington ever to suggest that anything might be wrong with the U.S. Constitution, but any document premised on the legality of slavery is going to have a few glitches in it...There were several reasons for this, but the most urgent was that choosing a president by popular vote threatened to disadvantage the South because so much of its population consisted of slaves (who, being “property,” were not permitted to vote)."
The Trouble With the Electoral College - POLITICO Magazine

It's an anachronism, and the arguments to keep it are largely based on myths:
3 Arguments for Keeping Electoral College Are All Wrong

And there are plenty of reasons to ditch the EC:
https://ventrellaquest.com/2013/04/09/top-5-reasons-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college/

Reality, what a concept!
 
Harshaw said:
Slate vs. Slate:

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These were written 4 years apart, possibly by different individuals or by the same individuals whose views may have changed.
 
DiAnna said:
These were written 4 years apart, possibly by different individuals or by the same individuals whose views may have changed.
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Yes, they were indeed.
 
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Harshaw said:
But if you want author vs. same author, you've got that, too.

November 2015:

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November 2016:

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These may have been written by the same person, but they are a year apart. I can't tell the tone of either article from the first paragraph. Certainly last November the country hadn't been treated to what we've all heard from Trump's own mouth over the past twelve months, so it could have been a person whose opinion of candidate Trump took a nosedive during that time. I recall quite vividly as long ago as February/March of this year the most prominent members of the GOP literally laughing at the mere thought that Trump could be president. Many of them are now lining up for positions in his administration with their hats in their hands.

Opinions change. I honestly don't know what the point of this thread is except that you apparently dislike Slate quite a bit. Personally, I've never even been to the site unless an article was linked from a DP post.
 
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DiAnna said:
These may have been written by the same person, but they are a year apart. I can't tell the tone of either article from the first paragraph. Certainly last November the country hadn't been treated to what we've all heard from Trump's own mouth over the past twelve months, so it could have been a person whose opinion of candidate Trump took a nosedive during that time. I recall quite vividly as long ago as February/March of this year the most prominent members of the GOP literally laughing at the mere thought that Trump could be president. Many of them are now lining up for positions in his administration with their hats in their hands.

Opinions change. I honestly don't know what the point of this thread is except that you apparently dislike Slate quite a bit. Personally, I've never even been to the site unless an article was linked from a DP post.
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Yeah but opinions are changing based upon whether the EC works for them or against them. Undisciplined weathervaning.
 
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late said:
Slate is an outlet. The problem an editor has is that he has to fill an aching void every day. Some days he's going to have to shovel crap. That's true for most of them.

I go through about a dozen websites in the morning looking for something worthwhile. I start with the papers, Guardian, BBC, CNN, and a couple others. Then I move onto to liberal sites like Slate and Daily Beast, and then grab a few magazines ( I mix them up to have some variety) Atlantic, Time, New Yorker, etc. Watch what I post, you will see the variety.

Someone like you should spend some time looking at foreign perspectives, the Economist, the Beeb, Al Jazeera, etc.
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The Economist is an establishment rag. If I want the globalist perspective I'll just go to Hillary Clinton's campaign website.
 
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DiAnna said:
These may have been written by the same person, but they are a year apart. I can't tell the tone of either article from the first paragraph. Certainly last November the country hadn't been treated to what we've all heard from Trump's own mouth over the past twelve months, so it could have been a person whose opinion of candidate Trump took a nosedive during that time. I recall quite vividly as long ago as February/March of this year the most prominent members of the GOP literally laughing at the mere thought that Trump could be president. Many of them are now lining up for positions in his administration with their hats in their hands.

Opinions change. I honestly don't know what the point of this thread is except that you apparently dislike Slate quite a bit. Personally, I've never even been to the site unless an article was linked from a DP post.
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Oh horse****.

When it's time to vote, Republicans usually choose an "establishment" candidate to lead their party: George H.W. Bush in 1988, Bob Dole in 1996, George W. Bush in 2000, John McCain in 2008, and Mitt Romney in 2012.
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Donald Trump ran a campaing of racist demagogery against Muslim Americans, Hispanic immigrants, and Black protesters. He induldged the worst instincts of the American psyche and winked to the stream of White nationalists and anti-semites who backed his bid for the White House.
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Donald Trump's primary campaign in mid-2015 was the exact same General Election campaign he ran. Nothing, absolutely nothing, changed about Trump's method. In fact that was one of his biggest criticisms: one I actually lobbied against him. He literally didn't change tactics. Trump can't go from "moderate Republican" to "anthropomorphized embodiment of racism". You just can't defend this author. I would also like to point out the number of errors in the Author's second paragraph: but only for fun...

The author himself is a flamboyant racist. Refusing to capitalize the word "Blacks" in his first sentence, even though he gladly capitalized "Hispanics" and "Muslims". The bigotry and racism on the left manifests itself in many ways. It's despicable.
 
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