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CJ-NJ

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16. Thoughts
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 12:27 PM
Jan 2017

I'm new to the site and yours was the first post I read. You touched on some very important points and I appreciate the time and effort you took to put it together. There is one point I did not see addressed, (apologies if I missed it), and it is for me, the most frustrating aspect of the debacle that was Nov 8, 2016. We DID win the popular vote. By a very comfortable margin. To me, this says we are still very clearly the majority. The latest Gallup poll I found shows that most Americans would vote to abolish the Electoral College, though that gap has narrowed considerably. What are your thoughts on what we need to do to see that happen? I understand that a call to action for this now, probably gives the other side more fodder for their 'sore loser' argument, but numbers are numbers. Not negotiable and we WON the numbers. Yet, lost to the minority. The antithesis of the democratic process. That this is the 2nd time since 1888 and both times it was our party that was disenfranchised is extremely disturbing to me.

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