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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
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11-02-2004 17:13
What is this electoral college you have? Why is it not simply the people to decide who will lead them? Does the electoral college have final say in who gets the white house? Does the people's actual vote not count for anything?
Who are the people in the electoral college anyway? Your political system is so complicated. Here we just have a "general assembly of the republic" where both the government and opposing parties can propose laws and vote. Majority wins, law gets approved. Simple!  _____________________
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Misnomer Jones
3 is the magic number
Join date: 27 Jan 2003
Posts: 1,800
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11-02-2004 17:17
Electoral College explained
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Talen Morgan
Amused
Join date: 2 Apr 2004
Posts: 3,097
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11-02-2004 17:50
What is this electoral college you have? Why is it not simply the people to decide who will lead them? Does the electoral college have final say in who gets the white house? Does the people's actual vote not count for anything? Who are the people in the electoral college anyway? Your political system is so complicated. Here we just have a "general assembly of the republic" where both the government and opposing parties can propose laws and vote. Majority wins, law gets approved. Simple! Nothing is ever simple in America. |
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Neehai Zapata
Unofficial Parent
Join date: 8 Apr 2004
Posts: 1,970
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11-02-2004 18:31
Here we just have a "general assembly of the republic" where both the government and opposing parties can propose laws and vote. Majority wins, law gets approved. Simple! Decided by the people? haha Good one. That would never work. Don't be silly. Portugal...hmmm...what have you guys been up to lately? You've been awfully quiet. Do you have any WMDs there? You better tell us because we have ways of finding out. _____________________
Unofficial moderator and proud dysfunctional parent to over 1000 bastard children.
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Lordfly Digeridoo
Prim Orchestrator
Join date: 21 Jul 2003
Posts: 3,628
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11-02-2004 18:35
My personal opinion is that the electoral college gives smaller states a larger representation in deciding the fate of the presidency (larger percentage of electoral votes as opposed to sheer population).
Also, it's a last-resort checks-and-balance kind of thing. If some Hitler 2.0 were to come ridiculously popular, promising a "solution" to the "foreign national" problem or something, the electoral college CAN, if it wanted to, vote completely OPPOSITE as to what they promise to do. IE if a state votes Democrat, they can switch it to Republican, or even Independent if they want to. It adds another level of stability to our country. LF _____________________
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