Also: Don’t forget, Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters, either. Personally, I think there should be a new election; at the very least, the obsolete electoral college should be dismantled.
Also: Don’t forget, Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters, either. Personally, I think there should be a new election; at the very least, the obsolete electoral college should be dismantled.
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Seems like Clinton just got a plurality rather than a majority in his first election, too. Either way, Bush IS the President, and those who don’t like it should just get over it and try to vote him out in 2004.
As for the “death of the Republic,” PLEASE, as Mark Twain would say, the report of its death “seems to have been greatly exaggerated.” The Bush administration went to Congress for permission to use force against Iraq if necessary, as the Constitution says that they should, and that permission has been granted. The main opponents seems to have been ex-Kluxer Sen. Byrd and that weenie Sen. Daschle, who turned on a dime to support it when he saw which way the wind was blowing. Oh, and leftist airheads like Babs Streisand, Sean Penn, Ed Asner and Susan Sarandon, who apparently don’t realize that the ability to entertain is NOT the same as the ability to comprehend and make foreign policy.
Like it or not, Miguel, the majority of people in this country support the coming war in Iraq. We remember September 11th and know that it’s no longer prudent to give the enemy the “first blow” like we did at Pearl Harbor and the WTC/Pentagon. “Containment” died on September 11th. The next “first blow” would probably be a mushroom cloud over a major American city or a plague like smallpox across the land. Most of us aren’t willing to risk that happening, and support the pre-emptive replacement of rogue regimes that threaten us.
i meant to ask – are you still a u.s. citizen? did you vote in the last presidential election?
Yep, I’m still a U.S. citizen, and I have no immediate plans to change that. I’m a big fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I did not vote in the last presidential election, because although I am not a Bush fan, I don’t like Gore, and wasn’t sure about Nader either. And I figured, given the negligable difference a single vote makes – especially one for Nader, for whom I probably would’ve voted – it wasn’t worth the trouble. Well, the events in Florida changed my opinion on that, so I do plan to vote in the next presidential elections. I still think the electoral college should be done away with.
It’s funny, because I remember liberals preparing for the eventuality that Gore would win in the electoral college but not the popular vote. And then it went the other way.
I’m not a scholar of these things, by any means. But it seems to me that if we went to a straight popular vote, candidates would just concentrate on the big states and ignore everywhere (and everyone) else. And that doesn’t seem right either.
And if the American republic is dying, which it may well be, we’re the ones who killed it. We got the president we deserved. Now it’s up to us to fix it. A tall order, and I don’t have a huge amount of hope. But if we don’t even try, we’re already done for.
Large vs small states,yes. But aren’t small states unfairly emphasized now? Or does the current system just protect them from being overwhelmed by more populous states? In the age of mass media, especially, how can a candidate ignore small states, when voters everywhere have access to his positions? Changing the system could indeed affect the distribution of pork, that’s true, and it’s an important issue. But the electoral college, and the way it makes it possible for the candidate with fewer votes to win is not right either.