we've been phasing out caucuses and replacing them with primaries because democracy. nowadays a brokered convention would be a major scandal
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(we even had resident alien voting for much of the 19th century, until it was rolled back during/after world war one. original citizenship..
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... requirements date to war of 1812--remember, adams's alien act increased the residency period, alien voting was a given)
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anyway, the electoral college is purely ceremonial now, and demanding it act is to demand a very different form of government than we have
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nevermind that this would almost certainly trigger a civil war as the various departments gather behind their chosen pretenders
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oh and remember servicemen were about split between trump and *johnson*, with clinton a distant third, so good luck with that
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really I vastly discount the impact popular will has on politics, see mostly rule by various alphabet agencies and executive branch staffers
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but appealing to the college under "muh founders" is antithetical to the past two centuries of enfranchisement and removal of safeguards
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better to at least be honest and say "voting is bad and we want off this ride." till then, democracy, good and hard
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pretty sure it's not binary. FPTP vs instant runoff is a meaningful choice between various extremes
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I'm referring specifically to argument that electoral college in december should defect to hillary for the good of the nation
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