Voting...

[Shipwreck]

I just have one question...

How do you get into the electoral college? They never talked about that in school. Do you have to take tests? I like tests...they should ask me to be in the electoral college.

Del'tizzle

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

Read that link. It loosely defines how electors are picked.

[Krusshyk]

Holy Crap the constitution is long and boring...Check this out. I was reading about the electors who vote for president. In that section, it mentions that the electors have to vote for two people (one being the president and the other the vice president), with at least one person not being an inhabitant of their state. In essence, the president and vice president have to be from different states, or they would lose the electoral votes from their home state. Am I reading this wrong, or does that sound f'd up to anyone else?

[X'an Shin]

I was being serious, and now I can see that perhaps I didn't state my opinion in the best way. What I'm trying to say here, is that by losing unity or perhaps an identity as a nation promotes seperatism which leads to the fragmentation of the US. 100 years from now the US will no longer exist as a country, but most likely several independant nations (Canada as well). Sure thats a bold statement, but I can only go by the trend shown in large countries in the past and it seems as though countries such as Canada and the US are following this trend perfectly.

This country has always been divided, ever since Day 1. Even before Day 1, when we were under British rule. The Founding Fathers argued. They debated. They called each other nasty names. They weren't all best friends.

Even among the 13 original colonies, there were disagreements from state to state. Civil War, anyone?

There are too many people, and too many opinions for this country to ever be some united utopia. It's just not going to happen. The fact that people disagree is what makes this America. The fact that you and I are free to say we're at odds with each other's opinions is what makes this country work. If we all felt the same, and buried our dissent, or our opinions just for the sake of unity, we'd be doing ourselves a tremendous disservice.

[Jabe Adaks]

How about this, we'll have ourselves some hard liquor for now and debate again in 4 years?

Jabe

[Shipwreck]

* shrug *

* pout *

I guess I'll go back to work then...

* hangs head and goes back to doing something productive for the government *