[GPSCC-chat] Daniel Ellsberg: Defeat Romney

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

Fallacy of false assumption, one of the classical non-sequiturs.
If we didn't have an electoral college, what else would be
different?  Did we lose it because of nationwide martial law?
Did we never have it because we're still an English colony?

If we didn't have an electoral college, I would be king.
It's a true statement, but meaningless.
If <false assumption> then <any assertion> is true.


>
> At times like this, I am grateful we have an electoral
> college, because we have the luxury of being in a non
> swing state.  Oops, I take that back.  Gore might have
> been elected in 2000 if we did not have an electoral
> college.  And does anyone know what the polls say
> about the popular vote difference between Romney and
> Obama?