Essentially...yes. One state could have 6 million people vote....if candidate A wins 3,000,001 votes....they get all the EC votes from that state despite almost exactly half the state preferring the other candidate. That's a simplistic explanation.
Essentially...yes. One state could have 6 million people vote....if candidate A wins 3,000,001 votes....they get all the EC votes from that state despite almost exactly half the state preferring the other candidate. That's a simplistic explanation. Thanks BWW..........your system is so different than Canada's.
Just because republicans don't play fair doesn't mean the only solution is to destroy a branch of government to straighten out the problem. The damage that that could cause in the meantime (probably a couple decades at least based on d-line's timeline) to key issues like abortion, healthcare, gun rights, money in politics etc could be detrimental to an irreversible point. The constitution isn't perfect but it's a damn good document. Let's uphold the institutions we've created rather than destroy them out of vindictiveness. That's what republicans would try to do, let's rise above it.
What do you guys do....sacrifice a moose and wait for a sign from the elders? Nope.......we go skating on the Frozen Pond and then go too Tim Hortons.
I think he meant that the candidates go skating on a half frozen pond and the first one to fall through wins, which explains why their policies seem so dead brained
I'm not down with destroying anything - but reform is absolutely needed, because the Supreme Court as it stands does not represent the will of the people, nor does it stand for a strict interpretation of the Constitution. It stands for an extremely partisan court's interpretation of the Constitution, as forced by one party's extreme exploitation of the system as-is. Yeah, it might take a while, yeah it might not be ideal, but... the court as it stands is already broken. So what are we protecting? One party has CLEARLY shown no hesitation to bend and break what they please to suit their needs, so why should the rest of the country be fine with that? I don't know that court packing is the right answer - but keeping things as they are is absolutely not the right answer, either.
I did a write-in vote for the first time ever this year. Biden's gonna win my state, so my vote doesn't matter.
The SCOTUS and DOJ have both been completely corrupted by both political parties using them as tools.
It also could feasibly take a couple decades for enough spots to open up for balance to return, that will cause untold damage of its own. That must surely be ideologically intolerable to Democrats, and given the way in which this situation has come about, they could do what they want and the Republicans morally really wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Whatever can bring around meaningful reform the fastest is the way they should go.
There's a good chance that no winner is declared tonight...but what are the chances that either candidate claims victory without it being clear they won?
