Posted on 07/28/2010 1:59:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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JONATHAN SOROS:It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College We don’t need an amendment to do it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
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JONATHAN SOROS:It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College We don’t need an amendment to do it.
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JONATHAN SOROS:It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College We don’t need an amendment to do it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
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http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/states.php?s=MA
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JONATHAN SOROS:It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College We don’t need an amendment to do it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
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http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/states.php?s=MA
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JONATHAN SOROS:It’s Time to Junk the Electoral College We don’t need an amendment to do it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
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SO SORRY! I AM NOT SPAMMING! I kept getting an error message and thought the post didn’t go thru. egads.....
CHANGING MY NAME TO “REPEATIE”!
SO SORRY! I AM NOT SPAMMING! I kept getting an error message and thought the post didn’t go thru. egads.....
CHANGING MY NAME TO “REPEATIE”!
yikes...as Mass. goes, so goes the nation ?
I cannot agree with that, at least not when put so baldly. I do not support democracy, except when it is buffered by oligarchy and monarchy. Any of the three is toxic in isolation as a socio-political system, but with all three, and a separation of powers among them, the toxicity is reduced. The voters have the House of Representatives through which their voice is heard. That was the original intent for how far their voice should be heard. I cannot improve upon the Founders’ wisdom in the matter.
Barack Obama—1,000,000
Sarah Palin—5
National winner, popular vote: Sarah Palin.
Palin wins all MA electoral votes...
And it would be truly beautiful if MA's electoral votes to Palin was what decided the election.
A state can invent any method they want. They could go as far as saying whatever candidate wins in Florida...automatically gets their electoral votes, and just nullify the entire voting apparatus in their own state.
I think the more folks try to tinker with this mess...the bigger the mess becomes. Everyone is convinced that the electoral college is broke. But if you explained the mess of letting popular vote run the thing...and only the results of the ten biggest states matter then...then they all hate popular vote.
The Framers were wise but human and were not perfect. They originally wanted small government with most of the power going to the states and to the people. How could a system that was designed to have small government result in the present socialist system we now have? The federal government is huge and there seems to be no end in sight as to how big they can get. Flaws in what the Framers gave us are that the safeguards put in place to keep government small have been breached and there does not seem to be reasonably quick remedies to restore a small government.
He chases the cars in his barefeet.
The flaws were introduced by the Progressives in the early 20th Century. The system as designed was working quite well. Yes, it would never power a world-dominant nation, but it was intended NOT to. Our ancestors came here to get away from European power games, not to find ways to trump them.
IMHO, I guess.
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