Posted on 04/10/2012 8:09:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
So you're saying that someone can be elected president without being on the ballot on all 50 States?
Seems doubtful.
What's to prevent the top electoral vote States from getting together and creating unified laws that enable them to elect the president they want, and simply cut out every other State?
No, I think that a candidate for president OF all 50 States must be qualified IN all 50 States, as long as the qualification requirements are limited to simply verifying the Constitutional requirements.
And btw, this won't just stop with the States - there are also Constitutional requirements for verification that were dismissed by Pelosi and Boehner last time, that their positions can be held to this time.
Kudos for an excellent screed, GW! Very well laid out.
“God save the republic.”
God also helps those who help themselves. Yes, I know the quandary and hope that at least this goes to an open convention.
But your earlier statement was correct - the man sitting in the White House IS Evil Incarnate. He can, and is racing to, utterly destroy this country and all patriots fighting for it.
“If Romney is elected we will need a congress able to keep his liberal tendencies in check almost as much as for Obama.”
Mittens can be kept in check - BHO cannot.
You’re so right.
The problem with the Tea Party—as well as it’s strength—is that there is no central leadership.
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The TEA Party is a grassroots movement and certainly does not need a central leadership. Leadership stems from the local citizens who volunteer their time in their communities, although there are several TEA organizations that seem to occasionally get on TV.
We don’t need a third political party. We need to ensure that the Republicans increase their members in the House and secure a veto-proof majority in the Senate. ...Then, even if Obama does gain a second term he will be hog-tied! (Just as Bush was in his last two years and Clinton was in his last six years)
The Dem pundits keep talking about how Clinton handed Bush a great economy but don’t mention that it was the Rep Legislature that did so, and the Dems talk about how Bush gave Obama a deficit but don’t admit that they ruled Congress his last two years and caused the deficit that was far beyond the war costs.
“Then, even if Obama does gain a second term he will be hog-tied! (Just as Bush was in his last two years and Clinton was in his last six years)”
NO, he will NOT be! The fatal mistake many (even here) make is in assuming that BHO is like any other President we’ve seen in our lifetimes. More attention needs to be paid to how he’s not only said he’ll just go around Congress to do what he “needs to do”, but how he’s already doing so - through frightening EO’s, radical Czars and cabinet heads (HHS, EPA, DHS and many more), SCOTUS appointments (which the gutless R’s didn’t stop), under-the-radar, back-door international agreements, etc. And that’s just what he’s doing during THIS term, when running for re-election.
A second term would be completely unfettered and many can’t begin to imagine how horrific. But it would be, and it would also be the end of our republic.
B. Hussein Obama, for so many reasons, hates America and he hates us.
At least I live in a state where, if Romney needs my vote to win, he has already lost.
Technically, the candidates aren't on the ballot - electors pledged to vote for them in the Electoral College are. I have no idea, and I doubt there are any precedents, whether a state's Attorney General (say) can invalidate a vote in the EC on the grounds that the Elector can't vote for someone unqualified under that state's laws. The House can (I think) when it formally counts the Electoral Vote.
What's to prevent the top electoral vote States from getting together and creating unified laws that enable them to elect the president they want, and simply cut out every other State?
It's called "National Popular Vote"
Does anyone have a link to it?
Does anyone have a link to it?
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Cheers!
Thank you so much!
It should provide for some very interesting reading.
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