Politics 2008:The Caucuses and The Dem/Rep Conventions

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Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

That said, we'll just have to declare a mutual disagreement on this topic.
We can declare agreement. I agree with you on your decision to vote for RP. I really didn't understand why before, but I get it a little better now.

Bottom line, I voted MY WAY and I make absolutely no apologies for it or my reasoning thereof.
Now, that I agree with and respect 100%!


But I want to thank you and deepimpact for raising some good thought-provoking issues and being civil in so doing. No thanks necessary. Thank you for explaining your beliefs because you didn't have to.

Originally Posted by SummerChild

IASK and DeepImpact,
Also, I really wish that the electoral college idea would just go away.
I don't like the electoral college. It is insulting to me. At the same time I do realize that there may be a time where it could be necessary/useful. Since the electors vote as the people have voted I am not too concerned by the EC. The EC votes are equal to the number of Representatives a state has plus the number of senators. Since the # of Reps is "proportional" to the population the number of Electoral votes is also considered proportional to the states population.
The EC was put in place as a safety net. If McCain gets the popular vote on Nov 4th and then on Dec. 1 we find out he is a looney toon (who refuses medication/treatment) and they've been hiding that fact there is basically nothing that can be done. There will not be a re-vote because his condition does not disqualify him for the position. The American people may no longer want him as president. The states can decide to ask their citizens (via a poll/vote) if they would like for the other candidate to be president (an essential re-vote, but not a nationwide re-vote. It is a state decision). If that poll turns out for Obama then all the state has to do is ask the electors to vote Obama instead of McCain. Thus there is no need for a nation wide re-vote just have the electors change their vote.
The Electors are supposed to be educated people who would only vote differently than the citizens have if they felt the popular vote was a grave miscarriage of justice (ie: the citizens would have elected a man with dementia who may have run the nation into the ground)
I lived in D.C. for a short peroid of time and they really get screwed in this process because they do not truly have representation in Congress at all. They basically just get stuck with the least amount of electoral votes possible (their amount is eqaul to that of the least populus state). That is wrong to me.
BTW, Georgia might go BLUUUUUUUUUUE!!!!!!! I sent in my BLUE ballot!
SC

Originally Posted by ladygreek

All I gotta say is he has constitutional right to vote for whomever he pleases without the need to justify it. At least he voted. (can't believe I am taking up for him )

I agree, but LOL at that smiley. It gets me every time.