North Korea threatens to withdraw from summit with Trump

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(05-17-2018, 09:12 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I am sorry.  I must have missed this.

All I have seen you repeat over and over again is that the electoral college controls who gets elected president.  We all agree with you on that.

But what is this "common fallacy" you speak of.  How is a popular vote not more indicative of public opinion that the electoral college?

The electoral college is flawed because it gives much more weight to votes from one district than it does to votes in another district.  We all agree that Trump won the electoral college vote.  But Lucie was wrong to claim that public opinion was accurately measured by the electoral college results.

Popular vote may not be 100% accurate in determining "public opinion" but the corellation is much higher than the electoral vote because of the "weighted" system that it uses to award delgates.

I'd add that the EC is usually touted by conservatives because "it isn't fair" that California tends to vote more for liberals and conservatives don't want those votes to carry more weight than votes from less populate, conservative leaning states.