Electoral college?

[huntall6]

call me ignorant but, i have no idea what the electoral college is!? i know that is the vote but why?? i am honestly asking what the purpose of it is. why not just a popular vote??

[Goldfish]

Because they believed that the common person wasn't smart enough or capable to make appropriate votes

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[Eric Haynes]

The biggest complaint I have about the ststem is that they don't have to vote for whoever had the majority vote in that area. If romney took 90% of the popular vote in an area, they are still allowed to submit for Obama.

[assateague]

The electoral college is old, and really serves no purpose anymore, other than allowing the two parties to game the system when campaigning and spending money. It was originally "required" to get the small states on board with the Constitution. Smaller colonies like RI, Delaware, and the southern colonies were afraid of having their "voice" drowned out the overwhelmingly larger populations of PA, NY, etc.

The biggest reason (to me) to get rid of it is that this system has worked TOO well. Now you get what we have- candidates only have to "convince" less than 5% of the population in 3 or 4 states to win, and that's effed up. People like you or me in MD or IL simply don't matter- they know where the electoral votes will go. It'd be nice to have a candidate have to worry about votes like ours in BOTH sides of the political spectrum.

I'm just so disgusted with the people in this country.

[Flightstopper]

Huntall, this sums up the electoral collage pretty well as Assa was saying.

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Looks great huh?

Nope, those few blue counties is all it took for Obama. Within the places that voted for Obama lies Pittsburg and other metropolises.

[JGUN]

A few more red states with only a handful of blue that Obama took.

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[Olly]

I'm glad I live in at least a red county. Can't wait to get to a red state again.

[assateague]

This one's better:

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[Olly]

This one's better:

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Love the border towns.

[jarbo03]

Easy to tell where the reservations are

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[obxbufflehead]

This one's better:

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That's just effing stupid that he still won.

[Flightstopper]

Holy hell Assa that's crazy.

This one's better:

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Love the border towns.

That threw me off big time with the Texas border counties. What did I miss with that??

[Olly]

Holy hell Assa that's crazy.

This one's better:

Election 2012 By County.jpg

Love the border towns.

That threw me off big time with the Texas border counties. What did I miss with that??

I'd be willing to bet those counties don't require ID to vote.

[Flightstopper]

Never mind, dream act of course. Can't hardly keep up with all the bs anymore

[obxbufflehead]

Holy hell Assa that's crazy.

This one's better:

Election 2012 By County.jpg

Love the border towns.

That threw me off big time with the Texas border counties. What did I miss with that??

I'd be willing to bet those counties don't require ID to vote.

Ding ding ding ding winner.

[Olly]

Ding ding ding ding winner.

Do you know what I was inferring when I said that?

[assateague]

X=Can we please just agree that it's time for a break up? We can still remain friends, I promise. It's not you, it's me. Of course the blues could never let the reds go, because then they'd have to work for themselves, and we all know that ain't gonna happen.

[obxbufflehead]

Ding ding ding ding winner.

Do you know what I was inferring when I said that?

Yes. All the illegals will go vote for Obama because he will give them food stamps and will put their kids through school for free. And all the blacks will go and vote early and then come back later and vote under a different name. The people that think its unfair to have voter ID laws because it is discriminating against the people.

[obxbufflehead]

Ding ding ding ding winner.

Do you know what I was inferring when I said that?

Yes. All the illegals will go vote for Obama because he will give them food stamps and will put their kids through school for free. And all the blacks will go and vote early and then come back later and vote under a different name. The people that think its unfair to have voter ID laws because it is discriminating against the people.

If that's not it then I feel stupid.

[obxbufflehead]

X=Can we please just agree that it's time for a break up? We can still remain friends, I promise. It's not you, it's me. Of course the blues could never let the reds go, because then they'd have to work for themselves, and we all know that ain't gonna happen.

I don't get what you're saying.

[assateague]

I honestly believe the country is too philosophically divided. There is simply no way for those who want everything for free and those who want to just be left alone to coexist. People get divorced all the time. You know why? Because they just can't be together. We should be two countries. And I would laugh at the one the libs want to see in existence.

[Olly]

Ding ding ding ding winner.

Do you know what I was inferring when I said that?

Yes. All the illegals will go vote for Obama because he will give them food stamps and will put their kids through school for free. And all the blacks will go and vote early and then come back later and vote under a different name. The people that think its unfair to have voter ID laws because it is discriminating against the people.

If that's not it then I feel stupid.

There's hope for you yet.

[obxbufflehead]

Ding ding ding ding winner.

Do you know what I was inferring when I said that?

Yes. All the illegals will go vote for Obama because he will give them food stamps and will put their kids through school for free. And all the blacks will go and vote early and then come back later and vote under a different name. The people that think its unfair to have voter ID laws because it is discriminating against the people.

If that's not it then I feel stupid.

There's hope for you yet.

I guess I was right.

[Goldfish]

This one's better:

Election 2012 By County.jpg

This is just ri-G-D-Diculous. Granted, I know that most the population of this country lives within metropolis areas, but still.

[Redbeard]

I honestly believe the country is too philosophically divided. There is simply no way for those who want everything for free and those who want to just be left alone to coexist. People get divorced all the time. You know why? Because they just can't be together. We should be two countries. And I would laugh at the one the libs want to see in existence.

where does the hunting suck the most? The blue can have that

[jehler]

I honestly believe the country is too philosophically divided. There is simply no way for those who want everything for free and those who want to just be left alone to coexist. People get divorced all the time. You know why? Because they just can't be together. We should be two countries. And I would laugh at the one the libs want to see in existence.

where does the hunting suck the most? The blue can have that

Ohio

[Redbeard]

I honestly believe the country is too philosophically divided. There is simply no way for those who want everything for free and those who want to just be left alone to coexist. People get divorced all the time. You know why? Because they just can't be together. We should be two countries. And I would laugh at the one the libs want to see in existence.

where does the hunting suck the most? The blue can have that

Ohio

we can surround them with a force of paintball guns

[jehler]

They put chili on spaghetti in OH

[Flightstopper]

And hunt over plastic

[assateague]

They put chili on spaghetti in OH

I do the same thing here. But I'm the only one.