AOC takes heat from heartland after calling Electoral College a racist 'scam'
By Ronn Blitzer

Dana Perino on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticizing Electoral College

Political figures from the American heartland are torching Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., after the coastal congresswoman posted an Instagram video where she claimed the Electoral College was a racist "scam" that needs to go.

The post featured her driving on an empty highway in a desert landscape and joking about how "many votes" there are out there.

AOC CALLS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE A 'SCAM,' SAYS IT HAS A 'RACIAL INJUSTUCE BREAKDOWN'

Eliminating the current system in favor of electing the president via the national popular vote would shift power to more heavily populated states, such as Ocasio-Cortez's home of New York.

Midwestern states like Michigan and Wisconsin, now heavily sought-after swing states, and smaller ones like Iowa would have less of an impact should this happen, as Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst pointed out.

"Actually @AOC, eliminating the Electoral College would silence our voices here in Iowa and in many other states across the country," the Republican senator tweeted, adding, "This is just more evidence of how out of touch the Democrats have become."

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said that Ocasio-Cortez's statements were evidence that she never took a civics class, asserting the "Electoral College is good for Dems and GOP."

Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington also took Ocasio-Cortez to task for believing that "it's a 'scam' to allow anyone but coastal elites" to determine how elections are decided.

The cause of eliminating the Electoral College has picked up support among some 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, in the wake of President Trump beating Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite losing the popular vote.

Ocasio-Cortez claimed in her Instagram post that, "Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the Electoral College effectively weighs white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a 'one person, one vote' system where all our votes are counted equally."
Fox News' Dana Perino fired back Wednesday night on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," calling Ocasio-Cortez's remarks "bad for civics education," because of the impact she has on social media.

"Think of how many people follow her on Instagram and are going to think, 'OK, the Electoral College is racist' -- because she's... driving through flyover country, then she thinks that it's OK to say that these people don't matter -- the people that live here don't matter," Perino said, reminding viewers that the Electoral College was not considered racist when it yielded two victories for President Barack Obama.

Proponents of the Electoral College, like Ernst, fear that if the status quo is changed, presidential candidates would overlook smaller states in favor of larger or more densely populated ones.

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Got to give her one thing, she's not afraid to prove that she is ignorant on a daily basis.

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When America was "great"

Eliminating the current system in favor of electing the president via the national popular vote would shift power to more heavily populated states, such as Ocasio-Cortez's home of New York.

That is untrue. Suburban and rural areas hold more people that urban areas.

A vote is a vote and should be counted as such.

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Edited: 08/22/2019 at 02:06 PM by Cole

YOU LYING SACK OF SHIT!!!!!

New York City holds more people than the entire states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maine, Montana and Hawaii...COMBINED!!

ASSHOLE!

Did you just try to pull that shit out of your ass...and think it was going to fly?!?!

Fucking MORON!

New York City 2019 estimated population: 8.70 Million

Rhode Island 2019 estimated population: 1.06 million.

Connecticut 2019 estimated population: 3.58 Million

Maine 2019 estimated population: 1.37 Million

Montana 2019 estimated population: 1.07 Million.

Hawaii 2019 estimated population: 1.42 million.

THIS is exactly why we have the Electoral College!

It's so that ASSHOLES like you cant get a president elected with 5 fucking large cities!

SHITFORBRAINS!

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Edited: 08/22/2019 at 04:42 PM by Fish Killer

Yawwwn.....
Yahbut aoc. Yahbut hilary, yahbut obammy
etc, etc, etc......
Bot central directive update: lie, spin, distract comrades!
Change subjekt as maximum leader flounders!
We have installed the perfect useful idiot, it is up to you loyal fellow travelers to explain away his senile idiocy!
Do your duty!


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It's a democratic hoax

Dear stable moron, now take the numbers for all of suburbia and all rural America, then add them up.

K-rist, it's a wonder you can even tie your shoes.



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Edited: 08/22/2019 at 05:47 PM by Cole

You do that SHITFORBRAINS!

You lost!

Your POS ploy is still a LOSS!

ASSHOLE!


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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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He can't reach his shoes.

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Susan B. Anthony
1896

Impeach Trump

No wonder you are a muck raker, its not all suburbia and rural Americal as a country total, its state by state, thats your lesson on electoral college. Raise your hand for more questions

Another Republican myth debunked.

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That is one seriously fucking funny thread title

Way to go Fish Killer

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

LOL Looks like the FK'er fell into Cole's trap.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

This has to be from a bot farm. No one talks like that...no one.


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One of primary reasons the framers wanted electors in the Electoral College, was to prevent a misinformed and easily manipulated public from choosing a demagogue and/or foreign-backed traitor.

The electors, Hamilton believed, would prevent someone with "talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity" from becoming president. And, they would counter "the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendent in our councils."

In the case of Trump, the EC failed to prevent both, and actually enabled a traitorous demagogue to improperly ascend to head our councils.

Rural areas are already over-represented in the Senate. Get rid of the antiquated EC.

Headline "Fox disagrees with AOC today" in today's AOC coverage. Stay tuned tomorrow for AOC coverage where every day Israelis in the Likud party share why AOC wouldn't hate Israel if she would see things through their eyes. Also, most Muslims that we broadcast are embarrassed by Tlaib. See why,

Don't miss the "the squad" in our continuous coverage people who hate America but won't leave.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

So, IF... you take that chart from the last election that showed the county by county wins for all of America...... where Hilary won like one or two counties per state and the rest of the country was RED.................AND then you did away with the electoral college............................ ALL you would need to do to win a Presidential election is win those same few counties.... and you can ignore the rest of the country entirely................

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It the same difference. Trump got those electoral votes by getting more votes in those counties, but those votes didn't go to Clinton at all.



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quite humorous.

popcorn please...

It the same difference. Trump got those electoral votes by getting more votes in those counties, but those votes didn't go to Clinton at all.........................Jeez, keep up Cole...... .Clinton won the POPULAR VOTE...... SO, since we are talking about the Popular vote winning the election..... All anyone has to do to win the Presidency is to win the SAME Counties as Clinton did..... So by focusing your campaign and making campaign promises to just the largest cities in each state and ignoring rural America you can get your message to the number of voters that will win you the white house...........You can BUY the white house with promises to cities at the expense of small town America......

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What a riot, dumbunnydense....
Cuz grammir and punkchuashun are HARD!
Low iq....lol


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It's a democratic hoax

Seriously dude, pay attention. If anything, the suburbs and rural areas out number those in the metropolitan.

But yes, Clinton did win the election.


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Liar!

Saying it several times and to different people will not change the FACT that what you claim is a bald faced FUCKING LIE!

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Does one-trick pony Lyin Fish know how to post without CURSING IN CAPS and saying "liar" over and over like a lunatic?

If you took "liar" "moron" and "asshole" away from him, would he even be able to communicate?

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It's his go to as a self proclaimed man of Jesus. If he's a friend of Jesus, who needs enemies? It's like he's on a false flag mission to keep people away from the sincere followers.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Isn't it funny how the most 'christian' of people on here (so he claims) does nothing but lie and swear?

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QOP = Terrorists
FK = Gay

But what if they are "inside the jail"?


LOL

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One person one vote. The person who gets more votes wins. What's wrong with that?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The concept of "IQ" is a hateful, white, construct.

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Two things....MORON.

1st we are a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC....not a democracy.

2nd if one person equaled one vote the population centers would control the country and government. 5 big cities would determine who was president. You've been told this many dozens of times to date...are you that stupid that the concept escapes you...or are you the disingenuous prick that continues to ask the same stupid question over and over thinking you will get a different result?!?!

Enquiring minds want to know!

FOOL!



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5 big cities would determine who was president.

That is a lie.

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20 Million would have a effect!

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

Look up the numbers. Currently the weighted system gives all the voice to the rural extremists.

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Look up the numbers YOURSELF....LIAR!

There are MULTITUDES of sites explaining it to you COLESLAW...in easy to READ 3rd grade English.

FOOL!

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The origins of the myth about big cities may stem from the misconceptions that big cities are bigger than they actually are, and that big cities account for a greater fraction of the nation's population than they actually do.

A look at our country's actual demographics contradicts these misconceptions concerning big cities.

Table 9.37 in section 9.31.6 shows the population of the nation's 50 biggest cities according to the 2010 census.

As can be seen from table 9.37, the population of the nation's five biggest cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia) represents only 6% of the nation's population of 308,745,538 (based on the 2010 census).

The population of the nation's 20 biggest cities represents only 10% of the nation's population. To put this group of 20 cities in perspective, Memphis is the nation's 20th biggest city. Memphis had a population of 646,889 in 2010.

The population of the 50 biggest cities together accounts for only 15% of the nation's population. To put this group of 50 cities in perspective, Arlington, Texas is the nation's 50th biggest city (and had a population of 365,438 in 2010).

To put it another way, 85% of the population of the United States lives in places with a population of less than 365,000 (the population of Arlington, Texas).

Moreover, the population of the nation's 50 biggest cities is declining. In 2000, the 50 biggest cities together accounted for 19% of the nation's population (compared to 15% in 2010).

Even if one makes the far-fetched assumption that a candidate could win 100% of the votes in the nation's 50 biggest cities, that candidate would have won only 15% of the national popular vote.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/section_9.5

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Well...SHITFORBRAINS:

The Electoral College forces candidates to seek the support of a larger cross-section of the American electorate - to win a series of regional elections. The Framers' fears of a "tyranny of the majority" is still very relevant today. One can see its importance in the fact that despite Hillary Clinton's national popular vote total, she won only about a sixth of the counties nationwide, with her support limited mostly to urban areas on both coasts.

Your consensus above^^^ is grade A BULLSHIT...COLESLAW!

Proved by actual FACTS!



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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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How about the concept of answering what's wrong with one person, one vote and the winner is the one who got the most votes?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

How about the concept of answering what's wrong with one person, one vote and the winner is the one who got the most votes?.......................Because we are a Republic.............Not a Democracy............................The founders were, and most liberals are, afraid of the majority of the people forming a voting block and electing one of their own that will cater to what they want at the expense of the rest of the population.

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It's math. That's why you don't get it.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Simple arithmetic at that.



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Yeah!

1/6th of the FUCKING COUNTIES!

SIMPLE MATH!

SIMPLE READING!

GO BACK TO 3RD GRADE!!!!!!!

"she won (the popular vote) with only about a sixth of the counties nationwide, with her support limited mostly to urban areas on both coasts."

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Edited: 08/30/2019 at 01:41 AM by Fish Killer

No, she won with the millions of votes in the other places too; Trump just got slight majorities in those areas, so the whole piece of the pie went to him. The millions of Democratic votes got nullified by the out dated Electoral College.

Why is the city vote worth less than the country one? Simple answer, it's not.

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Why is the city vote worth less than the country one?.........................The framers of the Constitution didn't want the squalorous mobs of the cities to be able to Rule over the workers and Producers of America. They knew that people crowded into slums and dependent on the state for food and shelter could vote crippling taxes on the Producers of America destroying the very things that made America great.......The Electoral College was their answer to prevent Mob rule....... We can see how their foresight plays out even today as Mobs of homeless and illegal people, sleeping in and fouling the streets try to vote themselves free things at the expense of the rest of America....

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NO...you fucking MORON!

"she won (the popular vote) with only about a sixth of the counties nationwide"

WHAT PART OF THAT STATEMENT DOESNT YOUR LOW IQ ASS UNDERSTAND?!?!?!

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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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whoa! nobodyelse getting hateful.

"squalorous mobs" "Mobs of homeless and illegal people, sleeping in and fouling the streets"

he's reading again too!

Clayton is an expert in hateful. I am assuming everyone has seen the racist views he expresses.

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Does that mean more Americans voted for her, she won but due to some archaic process where the majority rule for each state allows the person with fewer votes to win.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

No, "fewer votes" did not win, "fewer states" lost.

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What does a state have to do with it? We are One nation Under God, are we not?



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I'm really going to laugh if a Democrat wins the EC and Dick Head wins the popular. What's the chance they take it to court? 100%?

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Edited: 08/30/2019 at 03:05 PM by Cole

You dont believe in God....

ASSHOLE!

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Neither do you...


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QOP = Terrorists
FK = Gay

Hell yes I do!

LIAR!


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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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What stupid thing did twitler do today to ensure he's kicked to the curb? It ain't 2016 anymore when he was an unknown. It's known globally that he is an a-hole and an idiot of the highest order.

More than half the country strongly disagrees with you!

More than half the country hate you commies!

FACT!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

It's not more than half. It's significantly less than half. You can hide in the comfort of vague numbers but that won't last.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The main difference between 2016 and 2020?

This time around everybody has seen Trump in (in)action. It's not a "what if" anymore...

He never "acted Presidential"

He never got their jobs back

They never got that "turrific" health care plan where they can choose their own doctor

He never built the wall, and Mexico never paid for shit

The only things he DID manage to do were:

Act like an A-hole every day

Drive everyone away

Plant the seed for a coming recession

Turn America's good name to mud worldwide

Lie and lie and LIIIIIIE and lie some more..


Even the dimwits in America know that Trump sucks now.

As with all your "Bombshell!s" Lyin Fish- you should definitely hold your breath for this one

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Edited: 08/31/2019 at 08:19 AM by fishkller