To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
“Sometimes I think it is best to go back to choosing a Presidential candidate by using the “Smokey Back Room” method.”
That would be the Electoral College, with no popular vote. The way Washington became president. i don’t know when we started taking the popular vote into consideration.
14 posted on
10/19/2011 9:24:03 AM PDT by
DBrow
To: DBrow; Ruy Dias de Bivar
That would be the Electoral College, with no popular vote. The way Washington became president. i don’t know when we started taking the popular vote into consideration.No, the original poster was referring to the old days before primaries, when the party officials selected the candidates. The primary system shifted the selection process to the party rank-and-file.
37 posted on
10/19/2011 10:37:12 AM PDT by
Constitutionalist Conservative
(Of the declared candidates: (1) Perry, (2) Cain. I'll happily vote for either if he's the nominee.)
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