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Originally Posted by octothorp
Maybe I'm missing what you're trying to say here, but isn't gerrymandering more of a house district issue? Isn't it impossible to gerrymander the electoral college since it's drawn along state lines? (Strongly agree with your 'people have a right to be pissed' perspective, though.)
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The President is really irrelevant in many of the issues discussed. The power is in congress. The nutballs in congress drive budgets and law. This is where people should be pissed. The President's greatest domestic power is the affect on the judiciary.
Moyers kind of states my biggest problem with the system. The district maps, which decide the electoral balance, have been ####ed with so badly that they make no sense. Trump won really close races for big electoral college wins, but git absolutely demolished in the ones he lost. He lost the parts of the country that generate most of the GDP by a whopping 44 points. That shows you how broken the system is.
http://billmoyers.com/story/real-way...ection-rigged/