In theory it actually sounds like a better system, it's not being left to people who know nothing about running a country to decide who runs it. Although like Bush showed, it's open to alot of abuse.
You misunderstand. It's not someone else's vote, it's just that all of the state's voting power goes to the candidate that wins the popular vote in that state. In my state, Obama won by about 3 to 1, so all of our electoral votes went to Obama, even though 1/4 of the people here voted for McCain. (those were last night's numbers BTW, the slow counties might have evened it out a bit by now)Salamantis said:What's the point of voting then when your vote doesn't actually count, and instead it's some other higher-up persons?
dudeonline said:I challenge anyone to find a situation where the electoral college went againt the popular vote.
anyone?
No, Kerry was enough of a worthless douchebag to actually lose to GWB.TrolleyDave said:dudeonline said:I challenge anyone to find a situation where the electoral college went againt the popular vote.
anyone?
Wasn't that the case with the last election or did I get it wrong?
Destructobot said:No, Kerry was enough of a worthless douchebag to actually lose to GWB.TrolleyDave said:dudeonline said:I challenge anyone to find a situation where the electoral college went againt the popular vote.
anyone?
Wasn't that the case with the last election or did I get it wrong?
TrolleyDave said:Destructobot said:No, Kerry was enough of a worthless douchebag to actually lose to GWB.TrolleyDave said:dudeonline said:I challenge anyone to find a situation where the electoral college went againt the popular vote.
anyone?
Wasn't that the case with the last election or did I get it wrong?
lmao Yeah, I never really liked him when watching all the propoganda over here. He struck me as being pretty slimey. Did it happen in the 2000 one you mentioned? I seem to remember that someone got more of the popular vote but Bush still got in.
Sstew said:Yes, in 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote, amongst the people, but the electorial vote went to Bush, So therefore he won the Presidency
I've never felt worse about voting for someone than when I voted for Kerry. He sucked in every way he could, and he chose an ambulance chasing lawyer as his running mate, but I still had to vote "not Bush".TrolleyDave said:lmao Yeah, I never really liked him when watching all the propoganda over here. He struck me as being pretty slimey.Destructobot said:No, Kerry was enough of a worthless douchebag to actually lose to GWB.
Destructobot said:I've never felt worse about voting for someone than when I voted for Kerry. He sucked in every way he could, and he chose an ambulance chasing lawyer as his running mate, but I still had to vote "not Bush".TrolleyDave said:lmao Yeah, I never really liked him when watching all the propoganda over here. He struck me as being pretty slimey.Destructobot said:No, Kerry was enough of a worthless douchebag to actually lose to GWB.
the US mirrored england in its congressional setup soooo....we have a lot of diff parties but they only get niche votes (if youre on the extreme right/left)TrolleyDave said:Destructobot said:I've never felt worse about voting for someone than when I voted for Kerry. He sucked in every way he could, and he chose an ambulance chasing lawyer as his running mate, but I still had to vote "not Bush".TrolleyDave said:lmao Yeah, I never really liked him when watching all the propoganda over here. He struck me as being pretty slimey.Destructobot said:No, Kerry was enough of a worthless douchebag to actually lose to GWB.
Don't you guys have other parties you can vote for as well or is it just the two? In the UK we've got the 2 main parties and then a bunch of other parties that get votes but never get voted in.
TrolleyDave said:Yep, sounds pretty much the same as here except for the whole electoral college thing. Although with the state of the average Brits intelligence and common sense these days we could do with some kind of buffer that stops their votes counting!
p1ngpong said:TrolleyDave said:Yep, sounds pretty much the same as here except for the whole electoral college thing. Although with the state of the average Brits intelligence and common sense these days we could do with some kind of buffer that stops their votes counting!
I thought it was similar in the UK, the fact there was no proportional representation?