Not a nation of one person, one vote

Posted 1/17/17

To the Editor:“Lincoln’s Chair” by Robert Houghtaling was beautifully written and well expressed for the majority of us who voted for Clinton. When I was a young child, rummaging …

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Not a nation of one person, one vote

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To the Editor:
“Lincoln’s Chair” by Robert Houghtaling was beautifully written and well expressed for the majority of us who voted for Clinton.
When I was a young child, rummaging through my grandparents’ living room drawers, I came across a newspaper article with a photo of my grandfather and other delegates from Maine and Vermont. They voted for Wilkie, saying that was their duty. The Roosevelt Camp had hoped to make the vote unanimous.
In these over 60 years, I had not considered the significance of the Electoral College until this election. It made me fully realize that we are not a nation of one person, one vote.

Jane B. Rankin
Warwick

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  • davebarry109

    Clinton would have been a disaster. Notice how her Foundation donations have dried up now that she is out of the running. Talk about corruption?

    Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Report this

  • JohnStark

    Three points here:

    1. We most certainly ARE a nation of "one person, one vote".

    2. Those who voted for Clinton were, much like Obama voters, those who knew the least about her.

    3. The Clinton Global Initiative has announced that it is folding. They do so about one step ahead of a federal indictment. No use staying in business if you can no longer sell political access. "...most qualified candidate in American history..." Only to those who have not studied American history.

    Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Report this

  • Justanidiot

    we are a nation of one man, one vote. now we finally have the One man to vote the right way and make amerika grate again

    Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Report this

  • RISchadenfreude

    Funny...I didn't see the left whining, wringing their hands, wearing diaper pins and getting grief counseling in "Safe Places" when Bill Clinton won with 370 Electoral votes but just 43% of the popular vote in 1992. Presenting opinion in a vacuum is great- it's history and facts that trip them up.

    January 20th can't come fast enough- Good Riddance, #44.

    Thursday, January 19, 2017 Report this

  • Justanidiot

    no, rischandefeudlljkaif you did not see the left doing that back in 92. you saw the right doing it and pooping in their diapers and crying crying crying until they got the supreme court to dry their baby tears so they could get the war they wanted. Armageddon is right around the corner.

    Thursday, January 19, 2017 Report this

  • davebarry109

    Justanidiot, if Armageddon is just around the corner, you and your ilk will be the first to go. Safety pins and all. Snowflakes cannot fight. They're too fragile.

    Friday, January 20, 2017 Report this

  • Justanidiot

    you are right. the wall that will be built will protect reel amerikans from all that nasty nucleer fallout. duck n cover

    Friday, January 20, 2017 Report this

  • RISchadenfreude

    The Right can survive without the Left, but not vice-versa- eventually the Left would run out of tax money from people who don't work, and there wouldn't be anyone to defend them.

    Friday, January 20, 2017 Report this

  • JohnStark

    No greater visual symbol than watching a limousine being torched by the Tolerant Left in DC today. I guess that's part of the Left's desire to 'bring us all together'. I don't recall riots greeting President Obama. Then again, our society expects the Right to be adults, and expects the Left to be pampered juveniles who still haven't left mom's basement after they 'occupied Wall Street'. Our country has Producers, and our country has Takers. And it's all on full and glorious display.

    Friday, January 20, 2017 Report this