This is exactly why I wanted a Democrat to state as a rebuttal to the Republican "circumventing the will of the People" talking point that the Electoral College circumvented the will of the People in 2016 by putting Trump in the White House.
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This is exactly why I wanted a Democrat to state as a rebuttal to the Republican "circumventing the will of the People" talking point that the Electoral College circumvented the will of the People in 2016 by putting Trump in the White House.
Popular vote doesn't elect the house either. Districts elect the house, and the districts are gerrymandered. It's all layers of bullshit.
All the checks and balances are in place for is to prevent one branch from gaining control over another.
It has nothing to do with voting.
Ok Im obviously VERY confused with the whole sytem.
Thanks for taking the time to correct me, I appreciate it. Will read more on it when I get home.
The hyper stratification of population density was never anticipated by the founding fathers. The idea that the Constitution is some sacred text from on high and not an ever changing work-in-progress is a huge problem in and of itself. The Constitution as originally written fell far short of what we expect in today's world in terms of civil rights and protections for the entirety of the population.
Religious thinking within public institutions is the bane of society.
This is an excellent post and should be read by all.
Yeah, the electors for each state EVs are duty bound, and sometimes lawfully bound, to follow a state's plurality. So for all intents and purposes, the president is voted in absolutely on election day. Electors can choose to elect someone else if they want, but they usually don't (there are very few faithless electors historically, and absolutely none of them came close to overturning an election).
Adding to this, the phrase "checks and balances" (one of us yanks' favorites) refers to the relationships between our executive branch (president and bureaucracy), legislature (congress, composed of the house and senate), and courts (supreme court, mostly). As a minor example, the president can veto a bill passed by the congress, but congress can vote by supermajority to override said veto.
note that I'm not a student of government, just an american computer dork young enough to remember grade school government class
Because they are desperate criminals, and they dont have facts to appeal to the people, so they need to appeal to emotions.
If it was still like what the founders intended, basically the state legislatures would pick the electoral college and there would be no popular vote for president.
It now being winner take all per state has made it especially weird, because now the only states that really get outsized say are whichever ones happen to have the demographics spread in a way where half are republican and half are democratic.
