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frerottenextelway · 01-25-2013, 01:24 PM

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.co...5th-of-popular

"....Obama would have received almost exactly 3/5 of the electoral vote compared to their actual population -- 30.7 percent of the electoral vote over 51 percent of the popular vote. The coincidence recalls one of American history's -- and especially Virginia's -- most infamous numbers, the three-fifths compromise that counted slaves as a fraction of a person when calculating a state's federal representation."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive...Micah+Marshall)

"Another way of looking at this is that the new system makes the votes of whites count for much more than non-whites — which is a helpful thing if you’re overwhelmingly dependent on white votes in a country that is increasingly non-white."

I'm shocked that Cutt supports it!!!

01-25-2013, 01:24 PM	#39
frerottenextelway █████ █████ Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: █████ Posts: 7,888 Adopt-a-Bronco: ██	http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.co...5th-of-popular "....Obama would have received almost exactly 3/5 of the electoral vote compared to their actual population -- 30.7 percent of the electoral vote over 51 percent of the popular vote. The coincidence recalls one of American history's -- and especially Virginia's -- most infamous numbers, the three-fifths compromise that counted slaves as a fraction of a person when calculating a state's federal representation." http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archive...Micah+Marshall) "Another way of looking at this is that the new system makes the votes of whites count for much more than non-whites — which is a helpful thing if you’re overwhelmingly dependent on white votes in a country that is increasingly non-white." I'm shocked that Cutt supports it!!!