Posted on 08/31/2012 6:57:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You got me there. The problem is that every solution has a counter, and every counter a counter as well. We’re talking about people, and people will always try to outmaneuver one another. There are no simple solutions that will ever make that go away. The one I can say for certain is that rigid rules are more easily exploited than flexible rules that bow to common sense.
As long as we are changing it, I think we should go by total square miles of counties carried.
that’s funny...I guess any one of us can pick up a nobel prize.
There were lots of absentee ballots that went uncounted in 2000. Clinton ordered ships to deepsix mailbags full of absentee ballots from overseas military people, and I read a few days after the election that California state officials were sitting on a vast trove of absentee ballots, which they refused to open or count, lest they falsify Gore's claim to have won the popular vote.
He takes HIMSELF seriously enough, he should acknowledge that. Many in this country of that “persuasion” would “have his back”, so to speak.
If the Electoral College functioned as designed, there'd be no election campaigns, no conventions, no parties, no cadre of "professionals" battening on the People's treasury.
The Electoral College would meet and elect a President and Vice President. Two, stretch three days tops. All done.
It’s a fairly consistent axiom that if Al Gore or the Democraps are against something, then I’m for it.
That happened because the Big Four out in California, d/b/a the Central Pacific, later Southern Pacific Railroad, literally owned the California state legislature and didn't care who knew it.
They even corrupted U.S. law by getting an activist, railroad-promoting AJ to go to the activist, railroad-promoting Clerk of the Supreme Court, while the CJ was confined to his bed by terminal illness, to insert in the syllabus of a decision about tax powers (involving Central Pacific and a California county) the novel doctrine that corporations, as artificial persons, enjoy all the rights -- all of them -- that real people do. Which has never been legislated or even debated, just slipped into, not the opinion, it was never a holding or even dictum of the Court, but just the syllabus.
Now that is runaway corruption. People felt they had to do something to stop the Big Four and other plutocrats from stealing or arrogating everything in sight.
;) Good one!
There will be blood in the streets and a civil war first. Bring it, Al baby.
This move will guarantee that states west of the Mississippi will break off & form their own group of states.
There was a reason for the Electoral College & Gore should know it.
He is still a sore loser—12 years later.
Courtesy Ma Richards.
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Wasn’t her line “silver *foot* in his mouth”?
The Founders put in the Constitution that the State Legislatures will decide how the Electors are allocated. Each (eventually) gave that right to the people of their States. The right to vote in a Presidential Election is a right granted by the State Legislatures - and you are actually voting in a State Election, not a national election. Most people don’t know that either...and the “national popular vote” is nothing more than a media statistic...as meaningful as putting together a tally for the “national popular vote” for Senate or House races.
Yep, I stand corrected.
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In other words, takers deserve equal footing with the producers.
Sometime back Hillary introduced the 1000th yes 1000th bill to kill the Electoral College - any questions?
Not true, leftist fool.
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