Here at work we printed out a copy of the constitution this morning out of curiousity. The constitution explains the process for voting for president, and no where does it actually say the members of the electoral college have to cast their vote for the canidate the people chose. I don't think it will ever happen that members of the electoral college will do the opposite of popular opinion in their represenative state, but you never know.
On another note, this is the first election in a while (only the second I've been able to participate in) where a vote in my state (delaware) may actually matter. Since the election is close, the 3 electoral votes in DE may actually make a differnece somewhere. Prior to this election I felt voting for president in DE was useless because your vote only went toward swaying a total of 3 votes. It is becuase of this, and what I said earlier that I think the electoral college system needs to be scraped. With the way communication works to day there is no need for it.
oh yea I'm gonna wait until tonight to vote and see who's winning and vote for the other guy.... Just kidding, I'm gonna vote for Harry Browne.
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Here at work we printed out a copy of the constitution this morning out of curiousity. The constitution explains the process for voting for president, and no where does it actually say the members of the electoral college have to cast their vote for the canidate the people chose. I don't think it will ever happen that members of the electoral college will do the opposite of popular opinion in their represenative state, but you never know. On another note, this is the first election in a while (only the second I've been able to participate in) where a vote in my state (delaware) may actually matter. Since the election is close, the 3 electoral votes in DE may actually make a differnece somewhere. Prior to this election I felt voting for president in DE was useless because your vote only went toward swaying a total of 3 votes. It is becuase of this, and what I said earlier that I think the electoral college system needs to be scraped. With the way communication works to day there is no need for it. oh yea I'm gonna wait until tonight to vote and see who's winning and vote for the other guy.... Just kidding, I'm gonna vote for Harry Browne.