I have been watching "Ranked choice" voting in Maine since 2016. I am still watching it.
The electoral college was designed by the founders and written into the constitution.
I have read in depth about the constitution and our early history. I read the "federalist papers" years ago (essays written by the founders sometimes using aliases), I also bought the anti-federalist papers book (more of the early debates) but didn't read every debate. The index noted multiple references to electoral college, but they didn't call it that back then.
consider lynch mobs, pure democracy in action.
I can't read minds "clearly" all the way back several centuries, but our founders actual words still exist in print to be read today.
consider lynch mobs, pure democracy in action.
In case it wasn't clear, the analogy had nothing to do with how votes are proportioned.
I used the literary device called hyperbole to make my point. We are not a dog show either while sometimes politics can bark like one.That is quite the epic strawman
Indeed... and the founders literally wrote the electoral college into the constitution using their own words.
I used the literary device called hyperbole to make my point. We are not a dog show either while sometimes politics can bark like one.
Changes to the original electoral college procedure were made when the serious flaw of having a POTUS and VP with widely disparate views occurred in the third presidential election. Many of the founders were still active in government at that time, so arguing that somehow their intent was the original flawed method is disingenuous at best. The Amendment process was used to effectively correct the problem.
Gee, another "conspiracy theory" proven true. Wasn't it apparent that something was up when all flights were grounded except a plane collecting several Saudis in the US and flying them home? I remember that bullshit. The neoconmen and bad actors in the permanent bureaucracy covered it up for two decades. So now we're "at this point what difference does it make?"
Toss him out on his ear. Don't want him no matter what party teat he's sucking.
With what? Didn't commit a fallacy of composition--simply made a rather facile play on words. I think you're reading way too much into my very brief comment--perhaps this is reflective of your own unease at the shocking number of sleazeballs in the GOP these days?
