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Virginia Republican senators to kill electoral college change

A plan to alter the winner-takes-all Electoral College rules in the state of Virginia is on the chopping block after two Republican state senators on a key committee said they would oppose it, according to The Associated Press. The proposed remake would have changed how electoral votes are tabulated by…

Congress counts electoral college votes

The US presidential election isn’t over yet: Congress must still count the electoral college’s votes. Only then will Barack Obama be officially declared the winner — a quaint formality, perhaps, but also constitutionally required. A relic of when Americans traveled on horseback and interstate communication was less than instantaneous, electoral…

“Real” Americans? Really?

The fact that McCain/Palin is actively pursuing the unabashedly fascist tactic of dividing Americans into “real” Americans and the rest of us* has caused me to do some personal accounting. After all, I’ve been both a “real” American and a “fake” one in my time. (“Real” seems to indicate a…