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On 03/30/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Ross Cassell: Obama's Report Card. RC> Electing a US President by direct popular vote isnt going to work and will RC> further encourage more voter apathy. RC> RC> Why you ask?? RC> RC> Our population distribution... RC> RC> In simple terms, the population of California, Washington and Oregon tend RC> to be mostly liberal, they could out vote the rest of the country RC> especially when combined with most of the Northeastern States.. RC> RC> So do you want to allow just California, Oregon, Washington, New York, RC> Massachussetts pick our Presidents for us? Their combined populations would RC> dwarf the rest of us. Hello Ross. Thanks for your response. As I said earlier, there are arguments for both sides of the issue. It seems to me that either way, Electoral College or direct popular vote, it is a no-win situation. Either we allow a few heavily-populated states to call the shots, or else we remain with the current system, and the Big Money corruption and favoritism that plagues it. It just seems to me that the Electoral College system reduces the level of accountability that an incoming president has to the voting public, as well as his level of dependence upon them, because his victory really only depends upon the vote of less than 550 electors. I can just imagine all of the pay-offs that Obama must be making right now. Jeff --- Hermes Web Tosser 1.0* Origin: Armageddon BBS -- Guam, Mariana Islands (1:345/3777.0) SEEN-BY: 10/1 3 18/200 34/999 120/228 123/500 128/2 140/1 226/0 236/150 SEEN-BY: 249/303 250/306 261/20 38 100 1381 1404 1406 1410 1418 266/1413 SEEN-BY: 280/1027 633/260 267 712/848 800/432 2222/700 2320/100 105 200 2905/0 @PATH: 345/3777 10/1 261/38 633/260 267 |
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