Where's JD, I miss him!!
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Seems someone in charge doesnt think he is so funny and didnt want him back but the BOD showed how a democracy is supposed to work.
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Seems someone in charge doesnt think he is so funny and didnt want him back but the BOD showed how a democracy is supposed to work.
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Yeah, and if Al Gore was in office I'm sure the response to 9-11 would have been much more successful (shoot, with Gore it probably wouldn't have happened, right?) and the world would have been totally at peace by now. Big group hug. Where's the keys to my electric car?
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Can't solve the problems of the world's psychopaths by taxing the rich, throwing the resulting money at the less-fortunates of the country and the planet.
Four more years.
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Yeah, and if Al Gore was in office I'm sure the response to 9-11 would have been much more successful (shoot, with Gore it probably wouldn't have happened, right?) and the world would have been totally at peace by now. Big group hug. Where's the keys to my electric car?
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Can't solve the problems of the world's psychopaths by taxing the rich, throwing the resulting money at the less-fortunates of the country and the planet.
Four more years.
RE: Where's JD, I miss him!!
That's exactly right! We don't elect presidents, the Electoral College does. We only elect the E.C..
If we allowed the majority to elect our presidents, then the most populous areas in our country would rule. And most of them are predominately liberal. All of the rest of the country might as well never vote as their vote wouldn't count. As it stands now, the number of Electoral College delegates is representative of the region of which they represent. For instance, California is represented by 54 delegates to reflect the overall population of the state according to the last census. Several of the smaller states were only represented by 3 delegates, but because of the electoral college, their vote counted for something. The delegates are supposed to vote according to the winner of the popular vote in their state, although they are not bound to it.
If you were to review the results of the last presidential election you would see that W won an overwhelming number of states. Therefore, he did indeed win the majority of the nation's vote.
Our forefathers were wise enough to realize that the less popular states wouldn't be fairly represented if it weren't for the establishment of an Electoral College. The same goes for our House of Representatives.
Our Senate was originally a lifetime appointment intended to insulate the Senators from the winds of re-election polls. Unfortunately, that was thwarted by the decision to elect them every 6 years. Now, we have a Senate that is swayed by the moods of the voters nearly as easily as the Representatives are. What a shame!
I pray that this decision is never made for our Supreme Court.
What I don't understand is why we continue to consider ourselves a Democracy. If we were truly a Democracy, we would have to have a public election for each and every new law and amendment.
When the legislature of your state proposes a referendum to decide the passing of a new law, they are shunning their responsibility to decide as we have elected them to do. They often do this to avoid the repercussions of voting on a controversial issue. They aren't doing it for your sake, they're doing it to cover their butts. Cowards!
BTW, my original post wasn't a reference to our country. I was talking about this car club.
That's exactly right! We don't elect presidents, the Electoral College does. We only elect the E.C..
If we allowed the majority to elect our presidents, then the most populous areas in our country would rule. And most of them are predominately liberal. All of the rest of the country might as well never vote as their vote wouldn't count. As it stands now, the number of Electoral College delegates is representative of the region of which they represent. For instance, California is represented by 54 delegates to reflect the overall population of the state according to the last census. Several of the smaller states were only represented by 3 delegates, but because of the electoral college, their vote counted for something. The delegates are supposed to vote according to the winner of the popular vote in their state, although they are not bound to it.
If you were to review the results of the last presidential election you would see that W won an overwhelming number of states. Therefore, he did indeed win the majority of the nation's vote.
Our forefathers were wise enough to realize that the less popular states wouldn't be fairly represented if it weren't for the establishment of an Electoral College. The same goes for our House of Representatives.
Our Senate was originally a lifetime appointment intended to insulate the Senators from the winds of re-election polls. Unfortunately, that was thwarted by the decision to elect them every 6 years. Now, we have a Senate that is swayed by the moods of the voters nearly as easily as the Representatives are. What a shame!
I pray that this decision is never made for our Supreme Court.
What I don't understand is why we continue to consider ourselves a Democracy. If we were truly a Democracy, we would have to have a public election for each and every new law and amendment.
When the legislature of your state proposes a referendum to decide the passing of a new law, they are shunning their responsibility to decide as we have elected them to do. They often do this to avoid the repercussions of voting on a controversial issue. They aren't doing it for your sake, they're doing it to cover their butts. Cowards!
BTW, my original post wasn't a reference to our country. I was talking about this car club.
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We tried asking for one, but I guess the rest dont want anything to do with it.
We tried asking for one, but I guess the rest dont want anything to do with it.
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But cali really pisses me off with OVER governed rules and BS..... The Federal govn't should take them down, and put an end to this.
But cali really pisses me off with OVER governed rules and BS..... The Federal govn't should take them down, and put an end to this.