C. C. ELECTION CENTRAL.......Time to Vote
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I must confess to you friends...
I DON'T follow politics....
I just pray.....
I just pray!
My daughter did tell me "mama...I'm not voting for Hillary...she supports abortions!"
Well I in a split secondI knew who was heart felt vote. ..since my daughter was a less two pounds when she was born...
She is now on a Christian on vacation...
Yea...
I just pray.....
I DON'T follow politics....
I just pray.....
I just pray!
My daughter did tell me "mama...I'm not voting for Hillary...she supports abortions!"
Well I in a split secondI knew who was heart felt vote. ..since my daughter was a less two pounds when she was born...
She is now on a Christian on vacation...
Yea...
I just pray.....
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(why do we still have the electoral college?? )
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Where things get a bit messed up is that each state determines how it's electoral votes are given, some are winner takes all, some are divvied up based on percentages of the vote.
In reality there have only been four Presidential elections where the electoral winner has not been the winner of the popular vote and only one of them has been in recent history.
In 2000 Gore won the popular vote, but Bush had the electoral win
In 1888 Harrison won over Cleveland but lost the popular vote
In 1876 Hayes won by one electoral vote, but lost by a large margin in the popular vote
In 1824 John Quincy Adams ascended to the Oval Office without winning the electoral or popular vote (the only time this has happened). A candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes to be declared the winner and in that cycle no candidate did (there were four on the ballot) and as dictated by the Constitution, the election was thus decided by Congress. This could potentially happen if a strong third party (or independent) candidate were to suddenly jump into this election cycle.
**smacks Sirk**
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you are very kind, and thank you!
i was forced to learn that when the kids took their high school course on The Constitution
sigh.... okay, i s'pose popular vote only would put our form of gov't more in the democracy category and less that of the constitutional republic?
the Framers were brilliant, but i think perhaps a teeensy bit snobbish.
i was forced to learn that when the kids took their high school course on The Constitution
sigh.... okay, i s'pose popular vote only would put our form of gov't more in the democracy category and less that of the constitutional republic?
the Framers were brilliant, but i think perhaps a teeensy bit snobbish.
Lol maybe Bernie Sanders.
On the real though you can become an electoral college delegate, it's actually not that hard. You just have to convince one of the major parties to endorse you, and then there's some special rules and wonk state by state, but other than that not too hard.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html
On the real though you can become an electoral college delegate, it's actually not that hard. You just have to convince one of the major parties to endorse you, and then there's some special rules and wonk state by state, but other than that not too hard.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html
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