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SheMonster

#45
November 04, 2008, 06:25:44 PM
Can someone, succinctly, non-partisan, and a reader's digest version, explain electoral vote vs. popular vote please?

ducpainter

#46
November 04, 2008, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: SheMonster on November 04, 2008, 06:25:44 PM
Can someone, succinctly, non-partisan, and a reader's digest version, explain electoral vote vs. popular vote please?
Not here....

That's politics...

and the politics forum is locked. ;)
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Sinister

#47
November 04, 2008, 06:32:18 PM
Quote from: SheMonster on November 04, 2008, 06:25:44 PM
Can someone, succinctly, non-partisan, and a reader's digest version, explain electoral vote vs. popular vote please?

Troublemaker.
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ducpainter

#48
November 04, 2008, 06:33:13 PM
Quote from: Sinister on November 04, 2008, 06:32:18 PM
Troublemaker.
Why?

cuz you're chomping at the bit?  ;D
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 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
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NAKID

#49
November 04, 2008, 06:38:30 PM
Quote from: SheMonster on November 04, 2008, 06:25:44 PM
Can someone, succinctly, non-partisan, and a reader's digest version, explain electoral vote vs. popular vote please?

Even if the politics section was open, I don't think it's possible to explain it in that manner....
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SheMonster

#50
November 04, 2008, 07:00:54 PM
OK, sorry.  <insert angel smiley here>

Sinister

#51
November 04, 2008, 07:16:10 PM
Quote from: ducpainter on November 04, 2008, 06:33:13 PM
Why?

cuz you're chomping at the bit?  ;D

8)
"...but without a smiley, some people might think that sentence makes you look like a homophobic, inbred prick. I'm mean, it might leave the impression that you're a  douchebag or a dickhead, or maybe you need to get your head out of your ass."  DrunkenMonkey

"...any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one." - Marcus Luttrell

mitt

#52
November 04, 2008, 07:26:25 PM Last Edit: November 05, 2008, 06:12:31 AM by mitt
Quote from: SheMonster on November 04, 2008, 06:25:44 PM
Can someone, succinctly, non-partisan, and a reader's digest version, explain electoral vote vs. popular vote please?

The method of voting isn't really political, it is historical.

Popular vote is your vote and my vote and everyone else' votes added together happening today.

The Electoral vote happens Dec 15th, and each state gets a number of votes based roughly on population.  The electoral mirrors the popular vote for that state, but maybe not the entire country.

wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

Sinister

#53
November 04, 2008, 07:40:12 PM
^^^^^This looks very "political".  I'm insulted.
"...but without a smiley, some people might think that sentence makes you look like a homophobic, inbred prick. I'm mean, it might leave the impression that you're a  douchebag or a dickhead, or maybe you need to get your head out of your ass."  DrunkenMonkey

"...any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one." - Marcus Luttrell

ducpainter

#54
November 04, 2008, 07:43:04 PM
Quote from: Sinister on November 04, 2008, 07:40:12 PM
^^^^^This looks very "political".  I'm insulted.
Talk to mitt
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent."


NAKID

#55
November 04, 2008, 07:50:14 PM
Sorry, but if the electoral college mirrors the popular vote for each state and the number of votes are assigned by poulation, why have an electoral college?
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Sinister

#56
November 04, 2008, 08:02:28 PM
Quote from: NAKID on November 04, 2008, 07:50:14 PM
Sorry, but if the electoral college mirrors the popular vote for each state and the number of votes are assigned by poulation, why have an electoral college?

Read your history, young son, read your history.
"...but without a smiley, some people might think that sentence makes you look like a homophobic, inbred prick. I'm mean, it might leave the impression that you're a  douchebag or a dickhead, or maybe you need to get your head out of your ass."  DrunkenMonkey

"...any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one." - Marcus Luttrell

NAKID

#57
November 04, 2008, 08:05:28 PM
OK, then maybe I should have phrased it like "The electoral college is outdated and no longer relevant"....
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Sinister

#58
November 04, 2008, 08:16:46 PM
Quote from: NAKID on November 04, 2008, 08:05:28 PM
OK, then maybe I should have phrased it like "The electoral college is outdated and no longer relevant"....

That would still get the same response.  Read up on why the Founders believed that an Electoral College was so critical.  Also consider States' Rights and State Sovereignty, as well.

3-5 single-spaced pages, with notations, are due on my desk by 3pm tomorrow.  ;D
"...but without a smiley, some people might think that sentence makes you look like a homophobic, inbred prick. I'm mean, it might leave the impression that you're a  douchebag or a dickhead, or maybe you need to get your head out of your ass."  DrunkenMonkey

"...any government that thinks war is somehow fair and subject to rules like a baseball game probably should not get into one." - Marcus Luttrell

NAKID

#59
November 04, 2008, 08:18:02 PM
Hold your breath for me




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