MasterJaguar01
Posts: 2347
Joined: 12/2/2006 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: BoscoX You are still totally clueless about our democratic process... Better to keep your mouth shut, as they say Wow... That takes the cake. Congratulations. You have now outdone all the asinine comments you have made over the past months with this one. I will try and explain this to you. Every four years we have an election for President. Only electors can vote. Each state gets a number of electors equal to the number representatives it has in the House + 2 (for its Senators). Each state is free to choose its electors any way it sees fit. However, traditionally, for the past couple centuries (+/-), states have been choosing them based on popular vote in their state. (e.g. Candidate X wins the popular vote in a state. Candidate X gets to send his/her electors to the state capitol to vote. (In almost all states, this is done in a winner-take-all fashion) The votes are certified and sent to Washington D.C. where they are counted in a joint session of Congress. The winner must have a majority of electoral votes to win. If no one has a majority, the President is decided by the House of Representatives (but each state only getting one vote), and the Vice President is decided by the Senate. In both cases, 26 votes are needed to win. So, in this system, a winner-take-all state will allow a candidate who may have only lost by 1 popular vote, will lose that entire state's slate of electors to the other candidate. This in turns creates anomalies, where a candidate can be rejected by the population as a whole, while still win the majority of electoral votes. (Which is PRECISELY what occurred in our most recent Presidential election). I hopes this helps you understand: 1. The American People voted their "will" and selected Hillary Clinton (who lost due to our electoral college system, which bypasses the popular vote, and gerrymanders it into state regions). I am not one of them. 2. Roughly 2/3 of Americans disapprove of our President regardless of the outcome of the last election. And perhaps you won't outdo yourself again with an even more asinine comment.
|