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I have got
to admit: I love the Republican Party and its Presidential contenders. The Republicans keep the race for President
interesting, otherwise there would be no sense in following the preceding.
After all, ‘we the people’ don’t actually elect the
President. The Founding Fathers, all
those years ago, realized that the population at large wasn't intelligent
enough to be trusted with responsibility of picking a head of government;
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so
they established the Electoral College that could override the popular vote to
insure that only quality people would hold the office – and that worked out
well.
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I am over
half way through my seventh decade, and I have never known anybody who knew
anybody that knew someone that actually knew a person in the Electoral College.
In this age
of computers and cell phones, on-line elections of one person/one vote could be
held and counted in a matter of hours.
The technology is here to do that.
It would be as simple as clicking a box to indicate your choice and
hitting SEND. If I can file my income
tax securely on-line I should be able to vote on-line.
In the
meantime, I will cast a vote next year – if I am here – at my age that is
always a proviso; but, I have no expectation that my vote will actually be a
determinant in the election of the President; since Presidential elections are actually
determined by mysterious machinations of money, people of influence, political
party maneuvering and scheming – all hidden under the umbrella of the ‘popular vote.’
the Ol’Buzzard
To those of us who live under a British Parliamentary system, your American electoral system looks confoundingly and unnecessarily complex. But still, we can elect bozos too, so nobody's perfect.
ReplyDeleteI agree. We have Harper in Canada. But Alberta went NDP (Social Democrat) so maybe there is sanity left after all.
DeleteI think we should make voting demandatory and only votes count..period.
ReplyDeleteIf it was just popular vote who would care about the voters in little states when the greater NYC area & SoCal have enough votes?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand we just vote for the figurehead, after the last election NOTHING major changed, just little things to argue about. The borrowed money is still flowing!
I wonder who is really calling the shots?
The numbers of Electoral College votes are determined by the population of the state, so popular vote really wouldn't change the dynamic. I agree with you: we are given a choice of only two...
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