{"id":10826,"date":"2016-11-14T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=10826"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:59:14","slug":"the-real-reason-we-have-an-electoral-college-to-protect-slave-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/the-real-reason-we-have-an-electoral-college-to-protect-slave-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The real reason we have an Electoral College: to protect slave states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Politically, it’s referred to as “appeasement”. We’ve been “appeasing” the south ever since 1865 (well technically since 1792, given that the Electoral College original to The Constitution), and it’s time they get onboard with “Slave-Free” America. You know…150 fucking years later.<\/p>\n

“In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time.”<\/p>\n

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Politically, it’s referred to as “appeasement”. We’ve been “appeasing” the south ever since 1865 (well technically since 1792, given that the Electoral College original to The Constitution), and it’s time they get onboard with “Slave-Free” America. You know…150 fucking years later. “In a direct election system, the South would have lost every time.” http:\/\/bit.ly\/2g7Nu2U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-10826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11463,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/heres-how-the-electoral-college-the-process-that-selects-the-next-us-president-works\/","url_meta":{"origin":10826,"position":0},"title":"Here\u2019s how the Electoral College, the process that selects the next US president, works.","date":"December 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I bet half the people who are calling for a direct vote to elect the President, have no real clue how the Electoral College really works. 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The Article 'Trump pushes to swap Electoral College for popular vote' originally appeared on https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/04\/26\/trump-electoral-college-popular-vote-555148 Jamie's comments are his own.","rel":"","context":"In "#blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11339,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/russia-mounted-a-covert-operation-to-help-trump-win-source-tells-nbc\/","url_meta":{"origin":10826,"position":2},"title":"Russia mounted a covert operation to help Trump win, source tells NBC","date":"December 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"OK...so does that mean that he shouldn't be President? I mean, if a foreign power aided him in an electoral college win, despite a popular vote in favor of his opponent...in a very close race? I mean ANY amount of influence could've changed this race. So...now what the fuck do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13726,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/china-russia-diplomatic-double-act-exposes-trumps-crudeness\/","url_meta":{"origin":10826,"position":3},"title":"China-Russia diplomatic double act exposes Trump’s crudeness","date":"July 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Imagine a world where Russia and China put aside their differences, and work together toward their own \"new world order\", where no one cares about what corrupt and confused America does anymore. 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