I'm curious who the Right/Bob Barr's think the Dems could have trotted out as a Prez candidate who would have been a "better" candidate for the Left and who might have a 8 pt lead in the polls now?

LOL, 5%..

What about the black people that vote for Obama because they hate white people? Don't try and act like they're a small number.

http://www.feanor.net/z0r/shock/whiteblack.swf

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I think you could hit the ALL button on this one.....

Count every American's vote (instead of just counting 50 American Micro Majorities.) Woops!! That would be horrible! OMG..Count up every American's vote, and see who has the most votes. Can't have that happen. The guy most Americans vote for would be assured of winning........How awful that system would be. Atleast 4100 more Americans would be still alive if we did it this way.

:confused: you mean let's have the popular vote decide?

Isn't that how you vote for your state's top leader? They add up the votes from people in the state. This is the leader of a country. How about the people in the country vote, and they add it up? It's a national office. It's not a state office. State totals should have zero to do with determining a national leader. The state you live in should have nothing to do with your vote for president....Nothing. Just like the city you live in should have nothing to do with your vote for the Governor of your state. When you vote for a member of congress, all the votes in that Congressional district are counted up. You don't count up areas won within that congressional district. Let's face it. The Electoral College is loved by the South because they don't want their minority "Buckwheat" votes to count, and they don't count.

My vote means absolutely zero. If I choose to vote for a democrat for president in any given election in the state I live, my vote is absolutely meaningless. Which makes sense...I am a meaningless person! It's this way in many states for both sides of the political spectrum. A popular vote would make them actually campaign cross country as random red and blue votes in random blue and red states would actually mean something. It's hard for me to think a popular vote wouldn't increase voter turnout as well.

It's very divisive. Even if you do some incredible gymnastics to come up with an argument to call it fair(somehow,) you can't deny it's one of the most divisive things we have in place.

scuds needs to go back to civics class. the electoral college was put in place so that each state would have a voice, and no state would be marginalized. you have to understand that back when all that was put in place, the federal govt was viewed as a necessary evil to keep a fairly loose conglomeration of states united under one 'leader'. but most didn't want states rights to lose out to a large federal govt-which is exactly what we have now. states won't try to break away from the feds now on anything, since everyone is hooked onto the govt teat financially...

AE Wingnut, you are joking?


The choice of Plalin by the Repubs shows a complete disregard for a presidential campaign being centered around issues


And let's not just talk about Palin's intellectual mediocrity(and McCain's), we can talk openly about Johnny's age as an issue. In case those of you who are unsupportive of Obama(I need to include Coachpants, who likes to claim some sort of independence, but seems hugely against Obama) have not noticed this week, McCain's behavior is causing a lot of worries among your side.

Pathetic.

And there's no better candidate available on the national scene that would be better than Obama as the candidate for the Democratic party.

I'm excited...talk dirty some more.

I wanted her to talk about NAFTA's sucking sound.

It's bullshit. It's got to go, and doesn't surprise me somebody living in the south likes it. FK THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. This is a national office.You can't figure that out.... can ya honey. It only has states involved because of a-holes back then, and their descendants today. You lower yourself to the people around you. We can't get rid of it, because our cancer(the south) loves to keep their buckwheat's votes from counting. The Electoral College was started to satisfy racists, and it's still in today, because racists won't sign on to get rid of it. This thread is about racism. Start with that E.C. Each state has 2 senators to represent their state. That's enough of that States rights racism. Anytime you hear "States Rights ," racism isn't far behind. Your living in the state that didn't want blacks going to school at Little Rock High School. They did that claiming states rights. Racists love states rights. It lets you fk over people in your own state. Which is exactly what happens in the E C. If you don't belong to the predominant party in the state, then your vote probably won't mean much in the Presidential Elections. States Rights = you got the right to fk over those with the least power in your state. My Dad saw a Black guy get beat to a pulp in Arkansas in the late 40's early 50's(BY A COP.) He refuses to go back. Back then, States Rights meant you got to do pretty much whatever you wanted to the Blacks in your state.

can you explain to me where in my post i said that it was a good idea, that i came up with it (i'm not THAT old) or that i agreed with it? it's what's in place, but i find it interesting that you think a southerner came up with the idea. again, you need to go look thru your history books....honey

"The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote."

from 'how stuff works':
History of the Electoral College
The Electoral College is a controversial mechanism of presidential elections that was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as a compromise for the presidential election process. At the time, some politicians believed a purely popular election was too reckless, while others objected to giving Congress the power to select the president. The compromise was to set up an Electoral College system that allowed voters to vote for electors, who would then cast their votes for candidates, a system described in Article II, section 1 of the Constitution.

Each state has a number of electors equal to the number of its U.S. senators (2 in each state) plus the number of its U.S. representatives, which varies according to the state's population. Currently, the Electoral College includes 538 electors, 535 for the total number of congressional members, and three who represent Washington, D.C., as allowed by the 23rd Amendment. On the Monday following the second Wednesday in December, the electors of each state meet in their respective state capitals to officially cast their votes for president and vice president. These votes are then sealed and sent to the president of the Senate, who on Jan. 6 opens and reads the votes in the presence of both houses of Congress. The winner is sworn into office at noon Jan. 20. Most of the time, electors cast their votes for the candidate who has received the most votes in that particular state. However, there have been times when electors have voted contrary to the people's decision, which is entirely legal.


http://history.howstuffworks.com/ame...al-college.htm

there's the link, several pages of info on the college, who is an elector, faithless electors, etc. -for those interested in learning about the EC, as some have no idea why we have it, how it works, how the votes are divided (by state population)...

The only reason we still have it is because racist states like yours won't vote to ammend. O.K.? Racism keeps this intact. They don't even try to get rid of it, because they know racist states in the south won't vote for it to go.