Lawrence O'Donnell likens Electoral College to voter suppression in safe red-and-blue states
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MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell slammed voter apathy in solidly red-and-blue states resulting from the Electoral College, deriding the president-electing procedure as voter suppression. In an analysis of vote shares in Pennsylvania counties by data whiz Steve Kornacki, O’Donnell voiced his issues with a focus on a handful of swing states in a country of over 300 million. “I would like to issue an apology to all of those states we have not mentioned,” O’Donnell said. “It is not our fault, it is the founding fathers. They decided on this thing...
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