U.S Presidential Election 2016 Not Otherwise Specified

[flabbybody]

why do we have an electoral college as opposed to a simple national talley?
cuz George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were deathly afraid of direct democracy....so were Winston Churchill and FDR centuries later, and they routinely overruled it for the greater good.
All you need for a modern day example of majority rule run amok is the BREXIT vote

[buttslinger]

I hope they show "The Apprentice" outtakes after the election.
Kind of like when Eisenhower made the local Nazi townfolk walk through the Concentration Camps.

If it's not on TV, it's not real.

Instead of a Mortician, Kellyanne Conway will need a team of autobody repairmen to remove that phony smile from her face.

[broncofan]

why do we have an electoral college as opposed to a simple national talley?
cuz George Washington and Alexander Hamilton were deathly afraid of direct democracy..

I anticipated it was a bulwark against dangerous popular impulses, but that's why we have the judiciary and the bill of rights. I'm just curious what the acceptable range of their discretion is between automatically casting their vote for the state's winner and deciding to supplant their judgment for that of the voters.

What exactly is their mandate or role??? Do they only refuse to comply when conscience won't allow them to accede to the public's desires? Or do they have a more robust role than that? It's just always been hazy to me...doesn't mean it is for you or anyone else.

[broncofan]

What exactly is their mandate or role??? Do they only refuse to comply when conscience won't allow them to accede to the public's desires?

Because if their role is to buffer us against the stupidity of the masses, then maybe they should refuse to cast electoral votes for someone who doesn't understand something so basic as why we can't really use nukes.

[broncofan]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...t-clinton.html

[blackchubby38]

I hope they show "The Apprentice" outtakes after the election.
Kind of like when Eisenhower made the local Nazi townfolk walk through the Concentration Camps.

If it's not on TV, it's not real.

Instead of a Mortician, Kellyanne Conway will need a team of autobody repairmen to remove that phony smile from her face.

I know one thing, if Trump does pull this thing off, she is going to be smiling all the way to the bank. She was able to do what two other campaign managers weren't able to do. Turn Trump into a general election candidate.

[trish]

No, that was the clown car of GOP candidates from Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie up to Jeb Exclamation Mark.

[trish]

This just in: Trump's campaign managers took away his twitter account. They don't trust him with a twitter account, but they want to hand him the nuclear codes.

[buttslinger]

I know one thing, if Trump does pull this thing off, she is going to be smiling all the way to the bank. She was able to do what two other campaign managers weren't able to do. Turn Trump into a general election candidate.

Look, Half my family lives on the Gulf Coast, if I lived down there, I would be voting for Trump like you. .
It's just like Obama said
"If I watched Fox News, I wouldn't vote for me, either"

If you support Trump for whatever reason, that is your right.
But if you believe
"we can't AFFORD health care for poor people"
and
"throwing away the Constitution is better than giving Hillary her Supreme Court Justice"
or "climate change is fake"

you're going to get a talk.
If someone can talk you into something, then someone can talk you out of it.

[buttslinger]

The fact that both sides are insane shows how much more alike both sides are than unlike.
There is no doubt in my Heart that New York State Republicans who worked with Senator Clinton dug getting things done.
The USA is the greatest Country in the World!!!
"There is no security - only opportunity" ..Douglas MacArthur
"It's your ass now, Compton" Joe