Now there you go again, Binlurkin. Another liberal ploy to change things to their advantage. BL, NOW HERE THIS!!! The U S of A is a republic. In a republic the states elect the President, not the population as a whole. It was designed this way to keep the Liberals, who love living on top of each other, in the high density cities, from consistanly having an edge over the less dense but larger geographic areas.<br /><br />I guess it came in pretty handy this time, huh BL?
<br /><br />ps BL, does the fact that you listen to Rush Limbaugh mean I should start listening to Radio America?
<br /><br />So you see BL, that's the way it went down and that's still the way it is today, thank Heaven.Isn't that exactly what the liberals have been doing with their entitlment programs in order to bribe the voters who didn't know enough to realize socialism has to get paid for someday? Only the 25 cents was going into the pockets of those poor downtrodden (unmotivated) masses who did not take advantage of the education offerred and who thought starting at the bottom was demeaning so never tried.<br /><br />BL, your tone sounds every bit as angry and nasty as you seem to think we conservatives are. Your comment about "compassionate conservatives" and "Christian" is made with what hard evidence? Do you really know us in day to day life well enough to know? You may think so, but I know otherwise. Utterly non-sequitur. My axe to grind is with the irrational point of view the left espouses which is continuing to damage our nation. Its economics, morality, and every other aspect of its world view are short sighted and are destined to fail. I hope people realize this before the damage becomes irrepairable. Look to (honest, not re-written) history. Look at the biggest picture. The conclusion is unescapable to any who are truly open minded. I don't defend everything republican or what every conservative does. But is extremely arrogant for the left to say they have all the answers when all they can manage is to point out problems (which may or may not be real). All their "answers" do is postpone temporarily the paying of the piper, who will most certainly demand full payment with interest. Thus compounding the cost vastly, and sooner rather than later! It is sheer fantasy to think the liberal agenda will ever get us another 100 years. The only thing it might do is denature and demoralize this country to the point where we will be willing to join some sort of glorified global government, much as the EU is doing. I am an American. That will happen over my dead body!
YES, You, Binlurkin. I can still hear ya sawing the logs. What do you think the Electoral College is and where do you think the votes that they cast originate from?<br /><br />Each state is alloted so many Electoral Votes, based on their population. Each state may choose how to cast their votes. They could hold a popular election within the state OR the state legislature could cast the votes. As it stands all states choose to do it by popular vote. <br /><br />Once the ballots, within each state, are cast, the individual states can also determine whether they want to apportion their electoral votes to each candidate, reflecting the public vote (example-60% for candidate X and 40% for candidate Y) or give all of their electoral votes to the candidate that received the majority (51%) Also called 'Winner take all'.<br /><br />You can go back to sleep now BL, class is over.
The Electoral vote system was not employed by accident. This info just confirms the validity and wisdom of it. The current cry for election by popular vote just shows how poor a job the public school system had done to educate the students on the philosophy and wisdom of the Electoral College.<br /><br />You still awake Binlurkin?
