Website review: Dropping out of the electoral colle...
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•19 reviews since Apr 10, 2007
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digits rated 13 months ago- I did NOT know this happened in Maryland. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
- JD001 rated 16 months ago
- This is interesting.
- TheBeerLady rated 16 months ago
- Interesting idea - it does seem a bit backasswards to have an electoral college system that makes it possible for someone to become president without actually getting more votes. As long as that possibility exists, I'm sure we can depend on politicians to try to find some way to work it to their advantage - why worry about the approval of the most voters when all you really need is the approval of the right voters?
- andabien rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley signed a law that would award the state's electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. As long as others agree to do the same. "Actually, Maryland will drop out only if a lot of other states do, too. Maryland's new law will go into effect only if enough states pass similar laws to total 270 electoral votes -- the number needed to elect a President," O'Malley said. Those states would agree to appoint presidential electors who would vote for the winner of the national popular vote, no matter who wins the vote in each state. It would be a way to turn presidential elections into a nationwide popular vote without having to amend the Constitution." COMMENT: Now we're getting somewhere. Let's put voing back into the hands of the citizens.
- TaibhseAnam rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "In our current system, the president is elected by the electoral college and not directly by the people. The number of electoral votes each state receives depends on its population and representatives are chosen to vote on behalf of the people in the state. To win, a candidate has to win 270 electoral votes, which is a majority. If neither candidate gets that, Congress determines who wins. A few times, the American people's choice for president hasn't actually moved into the White House."
This is how it starts. Learn your history. Not what the leftist revisionists have taught you, but true American history. Our country was founded as a Republic. It was done for very specific reasons. A pure democracy is rule by mob. It simply is not possible to make every decision by a direct vote. Our system was set up to assure that all people had a voice. This kind of thing takes that voice away. It becomes rule by lemmings. If the majority of lemmings goes streaming toward the cliff, all are carried over the cliff.
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams (1814)
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson
"At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society." - Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), U.S. Senator, Speech, University of Capetown, 6/6/66
"In a democracy, two wolves and a sheep take a majority vote on what's for supper. In a constitutional republic, the wolves are forbidden on voting on what's for supper, and the sheep are well armed." - Anonymous
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol
"Democracy says it is acceptable to take money or property from a nonconsenting individual because he is outnumbered." - Unknown
"An inherent weakness of a pure democracy is that half the voters are below average intelligence." - Unknown
"Democracy is indispensable to Socialism." - V.I. Lenin
"Democracy is the road to Socialism." - Karl Marx
"Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos." - John Marshall (1755-1835), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
"The word "Democracy" cannot be found in the American Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, or in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, or the Constitutions of any of the States." - Unknown
"A democracy is rule by the majority; a republic is the rule of law. This is a very critical distinction." - Steven LaTulippe
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage." Sir Alexander Fraser Tytle - From the page: "In our current system, the president is elected by the electoral college and not directly by the people. The number of electoral votes each state receives depends on its population and representatives are chosen to vote on behalf of the people in the state. To win, a candidate has to win 270 electoral votes, which is a majority. If neither candidate gets that, Congress determines who wins. A few times, the American people's choice for president hasn't actually moved into the White House."
- tortdog rated 16 months ago
- Maryland votes to go with the national popular vote, regardless of how it's OWN people voted. It kills the rights of the states, in favor of bowing to a national crowd. BAD idea, unless you hate the idea of states having rights.
