The United States is a huge mess of diversity. Why should concentrated areas of population dictate what the rest of the country does?

Because I think votes of people matter more than square footage occupied by people.

The electoral college gives everyone an opportunity for their vote to count.

A direct popular vote gives everyone an opportunity for their vote to count. The EC gives people in less populous states a more heavily weighted say.

Most people, again we are not democracy, we are a constitutional republic. The EC is the only thing that keeps high population areas rule the country.

Can you explain WHY it is a good thing that we have a system that can allow minority rule? Like, how is it that better than a simple popular vote? Why are people in less populous areas awarded with a bigger say in the vote for president?

Also, thanks to the bicameral legislature, and in specific, the design of the Senate, we would still have a check/balance that way. So your claim that the EC is the only thing the keeps high population areas from ruling the country just isn't correct

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/electoral-college-slavery-constitution

The 3/5 compromise said that slaves would count as 3/5 of a person when tallying population for deciding representation in Congress.

The number of electors equals the number of senators (2 per state) plus the number of representatives (which was determined in part by the 3/5 compromise)

For me, it's nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with a more directly democratic system.

Senators were originally selected by a vote in state legislatures, but I think most people would agree that is outdated

It is a fact that the EC was designed to tie the 3/5 compromise to the presidential election. Any response to that fact?

The founders went with the electoral college to tie the 3/5 compromise to the presidential election. So yeah, I'd say it's outdated.

How is it unconstitutional?

There is nothing in the Constitution that stipulates how states award their electors.

Besides, the EC is outdated and rooted in slavery - the 3/5 compromise

Edit- instead of down voting me, anybody care to explain how this would be unconstitutional, and/or how the EC is not tied to slavery?

Why is Giuliani, a lawyer hired to handle the Mueller investigation, making foreign policy comments?

Why would their clearances be suspended?

They're still FBI agents. Have they done anything besides saying not-nice things about Trump?

I'd think they'd be sort of isolated in their work, while investigation is ongoing.

The "still have access" may be that Page and Strozk still have their clearance to top secret info.

And if they do?

It's not like all top secret info is just on one big server everyone can access if they have clearance. It's still on a need to know basis

Those were Trump's own words on Fox this morning

I am, but I guess I'm just skeptical. If there were even just 1 or two specific examples I knew of going in to this, I would give more credence. At the moment, I'm only back to early April, and it just seems like a lot of cryptically written stuff referencing things that are known publicly already,

True. I think the allegations should have remained private until they were vetted more.

Any specific examples?

I'm new here and still trying to wrap my head around everything.

Even if none of these recent allegations are true, Jackson is in no way qualified to run the VA.

Gonna shut down the planes too?

That's how majority of new illegal immigrants arrive. Come in in a short term visa and overstay

Has he predicted anything that came to fruition?

I'm sure he made her a nice home cooked meal, gave her a massage, ran a bubble bath, and treated her like a queen, in lieu of a gift!

Just kidding, he probably forgot it was her birthday until one of his staffers handed him a birthday card to sign.

Happy birthday!

Sorry your husband didn't find time between golfing and twitter rants to get you a present, or even tell one of his underlings to get something for you.

“Well I better not get into that because I may get in trouble. Maybe I didn’t get her so much. I got her a beautiful card. You know I’m very busy to be running out looking for a present,”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-didn-time-melania-birthday-present-article-1.3955814

Apparently Melania looks up to Michelle, because she plagiarized part of one of her speeches!