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WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS
How much do we as a people know about electing a candidate for an official
office? I have wondered about this so I thought I would look and see just how much
information is out there to be discovered. As I soon discovered, the information is out
there, you just need to know how to get it and analyze it. The hard part is trying to
make sense out of chaos. I did not know much about Article II Section 1 of the U.S.
Constitution, and after reading it, I had to do some serious thinking about how we elect
the President of the United States.
I often thought about our election system and thought it was really the best way
to elect a President, now I am not so sure. We, the people, do not elect the President
of the United States. If the President was elected by popular vote Bill Clinton would
never have made it to the White House, either time. It really does not matter whom the
American People want for their President, because more than likely it will not be their
choosen candidate. So far the information I have found has confused me, as I am sure
it does a great many of us.
Most of what we know about a candidate is what we hear on the news, by word of
mouth, on television, and on the radio. Can we believe what we hear about a
candidate or should we make him or her prove themselves to us by deeds instead of
words? When the candidates have a debate there are always the newsmen telling us
what we heard was not what the candidate said, so who do you believe? Do we vote
for the good-looking candidate or do we vote for the one who has our best interests at
heart? Is the news media bias in their opinions about these candidates? Do they give
a slanted view, according to their way of thinking?
James Wilson was responsible for the introduction of the Electoral College into
the Constitutional Convention in 1787. According to what I have read about the
Electoral College it was meant to resolve inter-state disputes about power based on
geographical and regional differences. As I understand it, it was meant to keep out the
uneducated person from being able to run this country. They did not want any of the
"uneducated masses" to have any direct political power. By direct political power I
mean the power to elect a president by popular vote. Only three times has the
presidential candidate had the popular vote but failed to get the majority of the
electoral
votes (1824,1876, 1888). The president is not necessarily elected by popular vote,
although that helps; the Electoral College elects the President. By having an Electoral
College that means it deprives the American public from having a full voice in choosing
their President. Is this the democratic way?
Why should we keep the Electoral Collage? Is it fair to the American people who
want to run on a third party ticket? The Electoral College makes no allowances for third
party candidates of which there are approximately twenty-three parties. What good is
the Electoral College doing the American public? By using the Electoral College it
means only a hand full of Oklahomans get to help elect the President of the United
States. I do not think it is fair or right for the members of the Electoral College to
think
that they have voted the way I might have. Are the psychic? I think not. Many states
have a winner take all rule with regards to the Electoral votes and individual votes
become meaningless. If my vote becomes meaningless, why should I vote? What
good does it do the everyday "John Doe" to vote?
Every Presidential election year both major parties hold conventions to select
delegates. What about the third-party candidates? They do not have Electors because
they are not one of the major political parties. Where does that leave these people who
are running on the independent tickets? Should we not make a place for them in the
Electoral College? Of course we could do away with the Electoral College altogether,
but would that solve our dilemma? First of all we would have to have a Constitutional
Amendment dealing with the Electoral College but the fat cats in Washington D.C.
would not go for that. It would shatter their way of life, no longer would they have a
strangle hold on the political power of the country, the power would revert back to the
people. A precedent has already been set when the Constitution was amended to
allow direct elections of Senators. I do not think our forefathers envisioned the
Electoral College as it is today. Our mainstream politicians should put such an
amendment to the vote of the people. Let the people ratify this amendment and end
this farce we call democracy. An amendment to abolish the Electoral College would
give the people back a voice in their government. We, The People, need our voices 
back in government. Too long the politicians have had their way in running our country
and they are trying to run it right into the New World Order, one government for the
whole world. Is this what we want for our children, for our grand children, or even our
great grandchildren? It is not what I want for mine. It is time for us Americans to take
back the running of our government before we are no longer free to do so.
What made our founding fathers distrust the ability of the people to govern
themselves? Was it because we were under British Rule for so long that made them so
distrustful? I do not think that they really meant for the Electoral College to go on so
long. The people of today are better educated, more informed, and better equipped to
elect a government official. Today we can talk around the world in a matter of seconds. 
I do not think our forefathers envisioned such a situation occurring. How could they? 
It still boggles the mind today. Technology has made the American people the most
informed group of people in the world today, yet we still are not intelligent enough to
elect a President by a direct vote of the people. Are we still as naive as our ancestors
were two hundred years ago? Have we stuck our heads in the sand and refused to
believe we could ever change the Constitution? 
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS
How much do we as a people know about electing a candidate for an official
office? I have wondered about this so I thought I would look and see just how much
information is out there to be discovered. As I soon discovered, the information is out
there, you just need to know how to get it and analyze it. The hard part is trying to
make sense out of chaos. I did not know much about Article II Section 1 of the U.S.
Constitution, and after reading it, I had to do some serious thinking about how we elect
the President of the United States.
I often thought about our election system and thought it was really the best way
to elect a President, now I am not so sure. We, the people, do not elect the President
of the United States. If the President was elected by popular vote Bill Clinton would
never have made it to the White House, either time. It really does not matter whom the
American People want for their President, because more than likely it will not be their
choosen candidate. So far the information I have found has confused me, as I am sure
it does a great many of us.
Most of what we know about a candidate is what we hear on the news, by word of
mouth, on television, and on the radio. Can we believe what we hear about a
candidate or should we make him or her prove themselves to us by deeds instead of
words? When the candidates have a debate there are always the newsmen telling us
what we heard was not what the candidate said, so who do you believe? Do we vote
for the good-looking candidate or do we vote for the one who has our best interests at
heart? Is the news media bias in their opinions about these candidates? Do they give
a slanted view, according to their way of thinking?
James Wilson was responsible for the introduction of the Electoral College into
the Constitutional Convention in 1787. According to what I have read about the
Electoral College it was meant to resolve inter-state disputes about power based on
geographical and regional differences. As I understand it, it was meant to keep out the
uneducated person from being able to run this country. They did not want any of the
"uneducated masses" to have any direct political power. By direct political power I
mean the power to elect a president by popular vote. Only three times has the
presidential candidate had the popular vote but failed to get the majority of the
electoral
votes (1824,1876, 1888). The president is not necessarily elected by popular vote,
although that helps; the Electoral College elects the President. By having an Electoral
College that means it deprives the American public from having a full voice in choosing
their President. Is this the democratic way?
Why should we keep the Electoral Collage? Is it fair to the American people who
want to run on a third party ticket? The Electoral College makes no allowances for third
party candidates of which there are approximately twenty-three parties. What good is
the Electoral College doing the American public? By using the Electoral College it
means only a hand full of Oklahomans get to help elect the President of the United
States. I do not think it is fair or right for the members of the Electoral College to
think
that they have voted the way I might have. Are the psychic? I think not. Many states
have a winner take all rule with regards to the Electoral votes and individual votes
become meaningless. If my vote becomes meaningless, why should I vote? What
good does it do the everyday "John Doe" to vote?
Every Presidential election year both major parties hold conventions to select
delegates. What about the third-party candidates? They do not have Electors because
they are not one of the major political parties. Where does that leave these people who
are running on the independent tickets? Should we not make a place for them in the
Electoral College? Of course we could do away with the Electoral College altogether,
but would that solve our dilemma? First of all we would have to have a Constitutional
Amendment dealing with the Electoral College but the fat cats in Washington D.C.
would not go for that. It would shatter their way of life, no longer would they have a
strangle hold on the political power of the country, the power would revert back to the
people. A precedent has already been set when the Constitution was amended to
allow direct elections of Senators. I do not think our forefathers envisioned the
Electoral College as it is today. Our mainstream politicians should put such an
amendment to the vote of the people. Let the people ratify this amendment and end
this farce we call democracy. An amendment to abolish the Electoral College would
give the people back a voice in their government. We, The People, need our voices 
back in government. Too long the politicians have had their way in running our country
and they are trying to run it right into the New World Order, one government for the
whole world. Is this what we want for our children, for our grand children, or even our
great grandchildren? It is not what I want for mine. It is time for us Americans to take
back the running of our government before we are no longer free to do so.
What made our founding fathers distrust the ability of the people to govern
themselves? Was it because we were under British Rule for so long that made them so
distrustful? I do not think that they really meant for the Electoral College to go on so
long. The people of today are better educated, more informed, and better equipped to
elect a government official. Today we can talk around the world in a matter of seconds. 
I do not think our forefathers envisioned such a situation occurring. How could they? 
It still boggles the mind today. Technology has made the American people the most
informed group of people in the world today, yet we still are not intelligent enough to
elect a President by a direct vote of the people. Are we still as naive as our ancestors
were two hundred years ago? Have we stuck our heads in the sand and refused to
believe we could ever change the Constitution? 
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS
How much do we as a people know about electing a candidate for an official
office? I have wondered about this so I thought I would look and see just how much
information is out there to be discovered. As I soon discovered, the information is out
there, you just need to know how to get it and analyze it. The hard part is trying to
make sense out of chaos. I did not know much about Article II Section 1 of the U.S.
Constitution, and after reading it, I had to do some serious thinking about how we elect
the President of the United States.
I often thought about our election system and thought it was really the best way
to elect a President, now I am not so sure. We, the people, do not elect the President
of the United States. If the President was elected by popular vote Bill Clinton would
never have made it to the White House, either time. It really does not matter whom the
American People want for their President, because more than likely it will not be their
choosen candidate. So far the information I have found has confused me, as I am sure
it does a great many of us.
Most of what we know about a candidate is what we hear on the news, by word of
mouth, on television, and on the radio. Can we believe what we hear about a
candidate or should we make him or her prove themselves to us by deeds instead of
words? When the candidates have a debate there are always the newsmen telling us
what we heard was not what the candidate said, so who do you believe? Do we vote
for the good-looking candidate or do we vote for the one who has our best interests at
heart? Is the news media bias in their opinions about these candidates? Do they give
a slanted view, according to their way of thinking?
James Wilson was responsible for the introduction of the Electoral College into
the Constitutional Convention in 1787. According to what I have read about the
Electoral College it was meant to resolve inter-state disputes about power based on
geographical and regional differences. As I understand it, it was meant to keep out the
uneducated person from being able to run this country. They did not want any of the
"uneducated masses" to have any direct political power. By direct political power I
mean the power to elect a president by popular vote. Only three times has the
presidential candidate had the popular vote but failed to get the majority of the
electoral
votes (1824,1876, 1888). The president is not necessarily elected by popular vote,
although that helps; the Electoral College elects the President. By having an Electoral
College that means it deprives the American public from having a full voice in choosing
their President. Is this the democratic way?
Why should we keep the Electoral Collage? Is it fair to the American people who
want to run on a third party ticket? The Electoral College makes no allowances for third
party candidates of which there are approximately twenty-three parties. What good is
the Electoral College doing the American public? By using the Electoral College it
means only a hand full of Oklahomans get to help elect the President of the United
States. I do not think it is fair or right for the members of the Electoral College to
think
that they have voted the way I might have. Are the psychic? I think not. Many states
have a winner take all rule with regards to the Electoral votes and individual votes
become meaningless. If my vote becomes meaningless, why should I vote? What
good does it do the everyday "John Doe" to vote?
Every Presidential election year both major parties hold conventions to select
delegates. What about the third-party candidates? They do not have Electors because
they are not one of the major political parties. Where does that leave these people who
are running on the independent tickets? Should we not make a place for them in the
Electoral College? Of course we could do away with the Electoral College altogether,
but would that solve our dilemma? First of all we would have to have a Constitutional
Amendment dealing with the Electoral College but the fat cats in Washington D.C.
would not go for that. It would shatter their way of life, no longer would they have a
strangle hold on the political power of the country, the power would revert back to the
people. A precedent has already been set when the Constitution was amended to
allow direct elections of Senators. I do not think our forefathers envisioned the
Electoral College as it is today. Our mainstream politicians should put such an
amendment to the vote of the people. Let the people ratify this amendment and end
this farce we call democracy. An amendment to abolish the Electoral College would
give the people back a voice in their government. We, The People, need our voices 
back in government. Too long the politicians have had their way in running our country
and they are trying to run it right into the New World Order, one government for the
whole world. Is this what we want for our children, for our grand children, or even our
great grandchildren? It is not what I want for mine. It is time for us Americans to take
back the running of our government before we are no longer free to do so.
What made our founding fathers distrust the ability of the people to govern
themselves? Was it because we were under British Rule for so long that made them so
distrustful? I do not think that they really meant for the Electoral College to go on so
long. The people of today are better educated, more informed, and better equipped to
elect a government official. Today we can talk around the world in a matter of seconds. 
I do not think our forefathers envisioned such a situation occurring. How could they? 
It still boggles the mind today. Technology has made the American people the most
informed group of people in the world today, yet we still are not intelligent enough to
elect a President by a direct vote of the people. Are we still as naive as our ancestors
were two hundred years ago? Have we stuck our heads in the sand and refused to
believe we could ever change the Constitution? 
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS
How much do we as a people know about electing a candidate for an official
office? I have wondered about this so I thought I would look and see just how much
information is out there to be discovered. As I soon discovered, the information is out
there, you just need to know how to get it and analyze it. The hard part is trying to
make sense out of chaos. I did not know much about Article II Section 1 of the U.S.
Constitution, and after reading it, I had to do some serious thinking about how we elect
the President of the United States.
I often thought about our election system and thought it was really the best way
to elect a President, now I am not so sure. We, the people, do not elect the President
of the United States. If the President was elected by popular vote Bill Clinton would
never have made it to the White House, either time. It really does not matter whom the
American People want for their President, because more than likely it will not be their
choosen candidate. So far the information I have found has confused me, as I am sure
it does a great many of us.
Most of what we know about a candidate is what we hear on the news, by word of
mouth, on television, and on the radio. Can we believe what we hear about a
candidate or should we make him or her prove themselves to us by deeds instead of
words? When the candidates have a debate there are always the newsmen telling us
what we heard was not what the candidate said, so who do you believe? Do we vote
for the good-looking candidate or do we vote for the one who has our best interests at
heart? Is the news media bias in their opinions about these candidates? Do they give
a slanted view, according to their way of thinking?
James Wilson was responsible for the introduction of the Electoral College into
the Constitutional Convention in 1787. According to what I have read about the
Electoral College it was meant to resolve inter-state disputes about power based on
geographical and regional differences. As I understand it, it was meant to keep out the
uneducated person from being able to run this country. They did not want any of the
"uneducated masses" to have any direct political power. By direct political power I
mean the power to elect a president by popular vote. Only three times has the
presidential candidate had the popular vote but failed to get the majority of the
electoral
votes (1824,1876, 1888). The president is not necessarily elected by popular vote,
although that helps; the Electoral College elects the President. By having an Electoral
College that means it deprives the American public from having a full voice in choosing
their President. Is this the democratic way?
Why should we keep the Electoral Collage? Is it fair to the American people who
want to run on a third party ticket? The Electoral College makes no allowances for third
party candidates of which there are approximately twenty-three parties. What good is
the Electoral College doing the American public? By using the Electoral College it
means only a hand full of Oklahomans get to help elect the President of the United
States. I do not think it is fair or right for the members of the Electoral College to
think
that they have voted the way I might have. Are the psychic? I think not. Many states
have a winner take all rule with regards to the Electoral votes and individual votes
become meaningless. If my vote becomes meaningless, why should I vote? What
good does it do the everyday "John Doe" to vote?
Every Presidential election year both major parties hold conventions to select
delegates. What about the third-party candidates? They do not have Electors because
they are not one of the major political parties. Where does that leave these people who
are running on the independent tickets? Should we not make a place for them in the
Electoral College? Of course we could do away with the Electoral College altogether,
but would that solve our dilemma? First of all we would have to have a Constitutional
Amendment dealing with the Electoral College but the fat cats in Washington D.C.
would not go for that. It would shatter their way of life, no longer would they have a
strangle hold on the political power of the country, the power would revert back to the
people. A precedent has already been set when the Constitution was amended to
allow direct elections of Senators. I do not think our forefathers envisioned the
Electoral College as it is today. Our mainstream politicians should put such an
amendment to the vote of the people. Let the people ratify this amendment and end
this farce we call democracy. An amendment to abolish the Electoral College would
give the people back a voice in their government. We, The People, need our voices 
back in government. Too long the politicians have had their way in running our country
and they are trying to run it right into the New World Order, one government for the
whole world. Is this what we want for our children, for our grand children, or even our
great grandchildren? It is not what I want for mine. It is time for us Americans to take
back the running of our government before we are no longer free to do so.
What made our founding fathers distrust the ability of the people to govern
themselves? Was it because we were under British Rule for so long that made them so
distrustful? I do not think that they really meant for the Electoral College to go on so
long. The people of today are better educated, more informed, and better equipped to
elect a government official. Today we can talk around the world in a matter of seconds. 
I do not think our forefathers envisioned such a situation occurring. How could they? 
It still boggles the mind today. Technology has made the American people the most
informed group of people in the world today, yet we still are not intelligent enough to
elect a President by a direct vote of the people. Are we still as naive as our ancestors
were two hundred years ago? Have we stuck our heads in the sand and refused to
believe we could ever change the Constitution? 
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS
How much do we as a people know about electing a candidate for an official
office? I have wondered about this so I thought I would look and see just how much
information is out there to be discovered. As I soon discovered, the information is out
there, you just need to know how to get it and analyze it. The hard part is trying to
make sense out of chaos. I did not know much about Article II Section 1 of the U.S.
Constitution, and after reading it, I had to do some serious thinking about how we elect
the President of the United States.
I often thought about our election system and thought it was really the best way
to elect a President, now I am not so sure. We, the people, do not elect the President
of the United States. If the President was elected by popular vote Bill Clinton would
never have made it to the White House, either time. It really does not matter whom the
American People want for their President, because more than likely it will not be their
choosen candidate. So far the information I have found has confused me, as I am sure
it does a great many of us.
Most of what we know about a candidate is what we hear on the news, by word of
mouth, on television, and on the radio. Can we believe what we hear about a
candidate or should we make him or her prove themselves to us by deeds instead of
words? When the candidates have a debate there are always the newsmen telling us
what we heard was not what the candidate said, so who do you believe? Do we vote
for the good-looking candidate or do we vote for the one who has our best interests at
heart? Is the news media bias in their opinions about these candidates? Do they give
a slanted view, according to their way of thinking?
James Wilson was responsible for the introduction of the Electoral College into
the Constitutional Convention in 1787. According to what I have read about the
Electoral College it was meant to resolve inter-state disputes about power based on
geographical and regional differences. As I understand it, it was meant to keep out the
uneducated person from being able to run this country. They did not want any of the
"uneducated masses" to have any direct political power. By direct political power I
mean the power to elect a president by popular vote. Only three times has the
presidential candidate had the popular vote but failed to get the majority of the
electoral
votes (1824,1876, 1888). The president is not necessarily elected by popular vote,
although that helps; the Electoral College elects the President. By having an Electoral
College that means it deprives the American public from having a full voice in choosing
their President. Is this the democratic way?
Why should we keep the Electoral Collage? Is it fair to the American people who
want to run on a third party ticket? The Electoral College makes no allowances for third
party candidates of which there are approximately twenty-three parties. What good is
the Electoral College doing the American public? By using the Electoral College it
means only a hand full of Oklahomans get to help elect the President of the United
States. I do not think it is fair or right for the members of the Electoral College to
think
that they have voted the way I might have. Are the psychic? I think not. Many states
have a winner take all rule with regards to the Electoral votes and individual votes
become meaningless. If my vote becomes meaningless, why should I vote? What
good does it do the everyday "John Doe" to vote?
Every Presidential election year both major parties hold conventions to select
delegates. What about the third-party candidates? They do not have Electors because
they are not one of the major political parties. Where does that leave these people who
are running on the independent tickets? Should we not make a place for them in the
Electoral College? Of course we could do away with the Electoral College altogether,
but would that solve our dilemma? First of all we would have to have a Constitutional
Amendment dealing with the Electoral College but the fat cats in Washington D.C.
would not go for that. It would shatter their way of life, no longer would they have a
strangle hold on the political power of the country, the power would revert back to the
people. A precedent has already been set when the Constitution was amended to
allow direct elections of Senators. I do not think our forefathers envisioned the
Electoral College as it is today. Our mainstream politicians should put such an
amendment to the vote of the people. Let the people ratify this amendment and end
this farce we call democracy. An amendment to abolish the Electoral College would
give the people back a voice in their government. We, The People, need our voices 
back in government. Too long the politicians have had their way in running our country
and they are trying to run it right into the New World Order, one government for the
whole world. Is this what we want for our children, for our grand children, or even our
great grandchildren? It is not what I want for mine. It is time for us Americans to take
back the running of our government before we are no longer free to do so.
What made our founding fathers distrust the ability of the people to govern
themselves? Was it because we were under British Rule for so long that made them so
distrustful? I do not think that they really meant for the Electoral College to go on so
long. The people of today are better educated, more informed, and better equipped to
elect a government official. Today we can talk around the world in a matter of seconds. 
I do not think our forefathers envisioned such a situation occurring. How could they? 
It still boggles the mind today. Technology has made the American people the most
informed group of people in the world today, yet we still are not intelligent enough to
elect a President by a direct vote of the people. Are we still as naive as our ancestors
were two hundred years ago? Have we stuck our heads in the sand and refused to
believe we could ever change the Constitution?