I agree. This is an outdated method of selecting our leader. The majority is supposed to rule, but the States actually control the outcome with the electoral college. If all states will adopt this the PEOPLE will choose our leader.
We can all talk about the past, but what about now and the future ? Presently the CNP Council for National Policy is planning your future. This secretive organisation of several hundred of the richest men in the USA put Bush & Cheney in office to accomplish their global agenda. In September 2007 they met again in Salt Lake City. Cheney & Mitt Romney were keynote speakers. Romney wants their backing. The CNP wants to continue their agenda in global market control for BIG OIL & allied industry in the next election. National media outlets are owned by their members. Who will expose them? Who will stop their insanity and destruction of constitutional freedom ? Who will stop their misuse of the military to promote their global agenda? Paul Wolfowitz,Don Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, George Bush, Richard Cheney, Eliot Cohen. Zalmay Khalilzad, Steve Forbes, Donald Kagan, Pete Rodman, Henry S Rowen, Dan Quale, William J.Bennett, Jeb Bush, they are all members of the PNAC Project for a New American Century.
hopefully all states will drop the electoral college. Since the cities have much larger populations and tend to vote democrat that would probably mean the end of republicans in the white house. sounds good to me!
The only way this could work fairly is if the entire Electoral College was dumped nationwide at the same time. Other then that one party or another will try to get it passed only in the states where it would favor one or the other. Personally I say dump the whole dam*n thing.
"In some ways it would make sense to completely do away with the concept of an electorial college and individual states votes. A strict by the numbers vote nationwide would eliminate a lot of this foolish behavior we get now where candidates ignore states they have ''''already lost.'''' Posted by gscotth at 12:58 AM : Jan 15, 2008"
I agree. This is much better than the silly idea of splitting the votes of California while leaving Florida as it is.
"For all its flaws, the Electoral College usually provides a clear winner of an election while reinforcing a two-party system. Posted by sanfelz at 08:26 AM : Jan 15, 2008"
The problem is that with popular vote, you need to hack voting machines everywhere, not just in Ohio, Florida ...
The Electoral College was developed as a compromise between large states and small states, just as Congress was split between the House and the Senate. For all its flaws, the Electoral College usually provides a clear winner of an election while reinforcing a two-party system. No decision by NJ has any force of law and is merely an expression of preference. Mr. Merkt is a hopeless partisan who is unconcerned by State Constitutional mandates when it applies to funding urban education.
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Posted by SgtRDS
I agree. This is an outdated method of selecting our leader. The majority is supposed to rule, but the States actually control the outcome with the electoral college. If all states will adopt this the PEOPLE will choose our leader.
"It''s not the people who vote that count. It''s the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin)
He must have been talking about the USA
Posted by gscotth at 12:58 AM : Jan 15, 2008"
I agree. This is much better than the silly idea of splitting the votes of California while leaving Florida as it is.
Posted by sanfelz at 08:26 AM : Jan 15, 2008"
The problem is that with popular vote, you need to hack voting machines everywhere, not just in Ohio, Florida ...
Posted by thgdriver at 02:22 PM : Jan 14, 2008"
Like in Texas ???
No decision by NJ has any force of law and is merely an expression of preference. Mr. Merkt is a hopeless partisan who is unconcerned by State Constitutional mandates when it applies to funding urban education.
Excellent quote.
I was not aware that Stalin was an early GOP man but the US GOP is starting to catch up with old Joe on tactics. Gotta love those Diebold machines!