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Sunday, January 20, 2008
well, no surprise, the patriots are in the super bowl...
who wins today's second game in green bay? packers or giants?
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Anonymous
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I got to ask a question even that it ain't got nothing to do with football.
What is up with these caucuses. It looks like a few people in each state is going to determine who we can choose to vote for in the election that coming up. Thats not what I consider democracy. Screw the delegates. The people in each state should make that decision. What gives them the right to deciede for us.
Someone please explain it. I'll bet I ain't the only one wondering.
The last thing you want is a democracy. Luckily we have a Republic, and I don't mean for that to sound like a cut down, just being honest. WHAT I REMEMBER (HAHA) FROM WHAT I'VE READ: The candidates receive votes from registered voters like me and you, based on these votes they are rewarded a certain number of delegates votes (they take the % of the popular vote that candidate received and turn it into a delegate number, for instance, Joe gets 50% pop. vote while Frank gets 25% and Vic gets 25% also. If there are 100 delegate votes to award then Joe gets 50, Frank and Vic get 25 each). The delegate votes are carried from state to state along the campaign trail and when the number of delegates to win is reached (there is a set number) they are the Presidential Candidate for their party. A candidate could come in 2nd and 3rd place all through the states and come out the victor under this type of system since this takes into account the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, (and so on) delegate votes. It insures that all votes are of value for all candidates throughout the caucuses. A straight up, majority rules the state and that guy gets all the delegate votes, would be misleading at the end of the campaign trail. This is how they can tell if a candidate can win their party's vote throughout the entire country. Like I said, this is a Republic. If we were a "majority rules" democracy then the popular vote would win out in our Presidential elections. Now that wouldn't be fair when you have states like Texas and California that could easily outnumber the votes in states like Montana, Maine, West Virginia, and Rhode Island combined (I don't have the population statistics in my cranium at the moment, just guessing). I hope this helps clear it up some, I do believe you would have to take classes on this type of thing to REALLY describe it without faults. I'm sure I messed up somewhere but at least I tried. fairtax4me
3 comments:
I got to ask a question even that it ain't got nothing to do with football.
What is up with these caucuses. It looks like a few people in each state is going to determine who we can choose to vote for in the election that coming up. Thats not what I consider democracy. Screw the delegates. The people in each state should make that decision. What gives them the right to deciede for us.
Someone please explain it. I'll bet I ain't the only one wondering.
Go Giants........... Rah! Rah!
The last thing you want is a democracy. Luckily we have a Republic, and I don't mean for that to sound like a cut down, just being honest.
WHAT I REMEMBER (HAHA) FROM WHAT I'VE READ:
The candidates receive votes from registered voters like me and you, based on these votes they are rewarded a certain number of delegates votes (they take the % of the popular vote that candidate received and turn it into a delegate number, for instance, Joe gets 50% pop. vote while Frank gets 25% and Vic gets 25% also. If there are 100 delegate votes to award then Joe gets 50, Frank and Vic get 25 each). The delegate votes are carried from state to state along the campaign trail and when the number of delegates to win is reached (there is a set number) they are the Presidential Candidate for their party. A candidate could come in 2nd and 3rd place all through the states and come out the victor under this type of system since this takes into account the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, (and so on) delegate votes. It insures that all votes are of value for all candidates throughout the caucuses. A straight up, majority rules the state and that guy gets all the delegate votes, would be misleading at the end of the campaign trail. This is how they can tell if a candidate can win their party's vote throughout the entire country.
Like I said, this is a Republic. If we were a "majority rules" democracy then the popular vote would win out in our Presidential elections. Now that wouldn't be fair when you have states like Texas and California that could easily outnumber the votes in states like Montana, Maine, West Virginia, and Rhode Island combined (I don't have the population statistics in my cranium at the moment, just guessing). I hope this helps clear it up some, I do believe you would have to take classes on this type of thing to REALLY describe it without faults. I'm sure I messed up somewhere but at least I tried.
fairtax4me
yeah! the giants are 2! big deal
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