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Barbara Boxer introducing bill to abolish Electoral College
 Barbara Call me Senator!Boxer Senator-for-Life from Caliphornia... (D-Calif.) will introduce legislation on Tuesday to get rid of the Electoral College, after  Hillary Clinton... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world,usually described by the rest of us as a crook... lost the presidential election despite leading in the popular vote. "In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the winner of the general election did not win the popular vote," Boxer said in a statement. "In 2012, Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... tweeted, 'The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.' I couldn't agree more. One person, one vote!" She added that Clinton, whom she supported, is "on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... ." "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately," she said. Clinton is currently leading Trump by nearly a million votes, according to a Cook Political Report tracker of the national popular vote, but Trump won the Electoral College, leading the former secretary of State 290-232. According to Pew, Clinton would be the fifth person to win the popular vote but lose the election, with the most recent being Al Gore  Former Vice President, Nobel Prize winner, and crazed sex poodle Al Gore in 2000.Boxer's legislation would amend the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College. Even if it is approved by Congress it would need to be approved by three-fourths of the states within seven years before it would take effect. Trump called the Electoral College "genius" on Tuesday morning, despite past criticism. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-16 |
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