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Can someone explain to me how a president gets elected
Ozir:
Like in BUSH vs. GORE in 2000, you can win the popular vote (GORE) and still lose the election because you didn't get the most electoral college votes. It doesn't happen often, but it can.
Like someone else said earlier... the state's population determines the number of electoral votes they have to give either candidate.
The reason we should have an electoral college is to make sure the candidates pay attention to most states. Without an electoral college, the candidates could just concentrate their attention on the states with the most people in it (NEW YORK, CALI, TEXAS) and basically win the election that way because they would have the most votes. With the electoral college, candidates need to go and fight for votes in most states so that they get the 270 total electoral votes needed to win the election.
Peace 8)
Trauma-san:
^ Yup, that's the main reason. Then, when you win by electoral college vote, and not by the popular vote, the losing party sues to have the votes recounted, but only in counties they feel they should have won. Then, when they're recounted, and they still lose, they sue to have them recounted agian, because they don't believe they were recounted properly. Then, when you recount them one more time, and again, they lose, they sue to have all the overseas military (and likely republican) ballots thrown in the trash. Why? Because hell, they're desperate. And when they lose the opportunity to do that, and the supreme court steps in and says "You can't do shit like that over and over again",...................... then they bitch and moan and whine for the next 8 years that the sitting president stole the election.
Sikotic™:
I think it was more than obvious shady shit went down in Florida 4 years ago.
eS El Duque:
--- Quote from: Lincoln The Mental Traveller on October 09, 2004, 10:20:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: Tom Gotti on October 09, 2004, 10:09:23 AM ---white boy thet never taught you about the electoral college in school. In school for me they didnt even teach me the basics like spelling an grammar but the taught us about the electoral college. and especially after what happened last election i thought every1 learned what the electoral college was.
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Hell I learned in school about the electoral college and I'm not even in the US.
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Ozir:
--- Quote from: Si-ko'tic on October 09, 2004, 08:38:05 PM ---I think it was more than obvious shady shit went down in Florida 4 years ago.
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i agree.
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