Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

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Mihira Fernando wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:


¹ For those not of US origin, the US has had an electoral college to
decide it's soverign since it's inception, the popular vote for
president is legally nonbinding in nearly all states: the electoral
college can and does vote for whoever it wants. Out of a quarter
billion people, only 538 appointed, not elected, people out of the
entire country are allowed to have a binding vote for US president.
So if you don't like the current president, you only have 538 people
to blame, not the rest of us who had no non-violent method to have any
say, pro or con, in the matter.

Good god! so are the Presidential elections that are held in the US a
sham ?? does only 538 really decides who the president is ??

Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it.

Practically, though, no.

Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors who
are pledged to vote for a specific candidate.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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