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To: SeekAndFind

Electoral College kept us from having a Kerry Edwards presidency.


4 posted on 01/18/2013 9:20:58 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Darksheare
Electoral College kept us from having a Kerry Edwards presidency.

... with Rielle Hunter as First Concubine.

15 posted on 01/18/2013 9:45:40 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Re. The Electoral College

Use a variant of the Maine/Nebraska system.

Each House district will determine its electoral vote, independent of the rest of the state.

The Senatorial electoral votes would be distributed as follows:
If a candidate gets 40% of the statewide popular vote, that would guarantee the candidate one electoral vote, 60% would guarantee two. If neither candidate received 40%, then the top two candidates would each get one electoral vote.

A majority of the electoral votes should be required for election, not a plurality. If a majority is not achieved, then a run off election would be held for the three candidates with the highest national vote total.

Had this system been in place in 1860, Mr. Lincoln might not have won the run off and the War of 1861 might have been averted (or at least delayed).

18 posted on 01/18/2013 10:02:38 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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