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  1. SpecialKO

    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Hamilton also believed that voters (which, let's not forget, were limited to white property owners at the time) would have a direct say in the election of those electors. While we might technically do that on paper, we definitely don't in practice, which upends the entire notion.
  2. SpecialKO

    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    That's better than the current system, but it runs smack into the gerrymandering problem. That you have congressional districts in the country that are literally double the size of others in population makes this a poor fit. The EV distribution nominally already adjusts for population centers...
  3. SpecialKO

    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    If we use the current distribution of EV votes by state, that should work. We would just apportion them according to the individual state's popular vote instead of winner-take-all. In theory, it should add some amount voting power back to red voters in deep blue states and blue voters in deep...
  4. SpecialKO

    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Apologies if someone mentioned already, but I think fully-proportional apportionment by state popular vote is a good way to assign electoral votes as opposed to our current system. It makes the EV much closer to the popular vote, which is general good for democracy, but maintains the...
  5. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    I would accept that if Trump hadn't run his campaign with the racism and misogyny literally on the tin as a selling point. You may be a marvelous non-racist or sexist person in your day-to-day life. But if you voted for Trump, then you signaled at least a willingness to accept the outright...
  6. SpecialKO

    [Question] clueless brit heading to TEXAS!

    It's not close to Plano, so don't do this if you're not already in the Austin area to see other things. But if you do happen to visit Austin on a day trip or something, go to the Salt Lick, and drown yourself in BBQ'd meats.
  7. SpecialKO

    Movie News & Miscellany

    I wanted to condemn this list, because no one mentioned REC, but then Zero Esc mentioned Pontypool, and we got Dog Soldiers and the Descent, so we're good. I would also include: In The Mouth Of Madness Vampires (admittedly more for the intentionally kitschy lols than anything else) From Dusk...
  8. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    Silver's saying that the best result for Democrats now that seems at all likely is an EV split and the hope that Paul Ryan won't actually pick Trump. Seriously, that's how fucked we are.
  9. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    I'm really genuinely afraid that he'll actually try selling our home-owned debt to foreign creditors and will start declaring treaties null and void. I also think Putin will run circles around him.
  10. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    Just the thought of him having Chris Christie and Rudy on his cabinet is terrifying.And just because of course, the NYTimes thinks she'll win the popular vote anyway.
  11. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    We're at the point where we need to hope that Trump was exaggerating for effect on everything he promised to do.
  12. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    All in all, Weld seems like a real solid guy with a good history of getting things done. I'm honestly quite surprised that the Libertarians preferred Johnson.
  13. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    I did see one poor guy storm off because they wouldn't let him vote because the genius poll workers couldn't find him in the book and I wasn't able to grab him and tell him he could always fill out a provisional. :( This was at 630am, so I'm hoping he got it sorted and came back.
  14. SpecialKO

    November 2016 pre-election poll

    Voted for Clinton. Even if Trump wasn't running against her, I don't agree with the standard GOP platform, and the Green party isn't going to get my vote as long as Jill Stein and her inner circle are in charge. Held my nose and voted for the incumbent rep, because the alternatives don't...
  15. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    EDIT: NVM, video embed got real unhappy. Was trying to link the South Park Obama/McCain heist episode.
  16. SpecialKO

    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Silly noob-ish question. What is the difference between a missile and a precision-guided rocket artillery shell? The coverage of that ship's gun is unclear or assumes you know already.
  17. SpecialKO

    November 2016 pre-election poll

    We can replace Arsenio with her. We're not moving Sammo.
  18. SpecialKO

    a Trump vs Clinton United States Presidential Election in 2016

    The version of the NC Voter ID law that got struck down by the Federal Appeals Court did not allow student IDs, utility bills, or employee IDs, and specifically denied any IDs that were expired. These are all things that were explicitly allowed before 2014. The court found that the GOP...
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