...unless my teachers gave me the wrong information also. In which case, I don't really see the point of the electoral college and all my hot air is wasted.
You're correct in that regard, that the electors most often support the popular vote. In the general election, the electoral votes are estimated by giving the state's entire allotment of electors to the candidate that attains the majority of the popular vote in that state. This is meant to reflect the eventual official electoral college vote that takes place later on. However, the states electors are free (but don't in reasonable cases) to vote against the popular vote of that state if the need arrises (such as a tyranical yet "cult of personality" leader). Hence, the popular vote does matter, but can be checked by the members of the electoral college; which I believe is a good thing for the safety sake of democracy.
Agreed... a good deal of people I have conversed with indicate to me that they vote out of being swayed emotionally, strict party affiliation, or candidate attractiveness. In my experience, it appears that many people haven't taken the time or made the effort to discover which candidate truly fits their personal political doctrine. Thus, the electoral college is still extremely necessary for the accurate representation of those who really care about politics.
I'm afraid that the SEP field generator you were using failed when you installed the new version of PERL on your server. It seems that the new version has replace the SEP_FieldGen function with an updated SEP_Gen function. Just change the function call in all your Perl Scripts and it should run fine. However, the damage is already done. Remember to read over the "What's Changed" section carefully next time. Or, maybe this is some problem I am remebering from someone else's crash? I can't remember. Hope that helps.
It looks as if we have some "red syndrome" going on here. It's OK, the Russians will no more likely land the mir on your trailer park as they will on any other good christian folk in America. Therefore, you're pretty safe because America seems to have an excess of the sort. Why, just the other day I gave liquor money to the bum on the corner in the name of the white Jesus. I assume, of course, that you worship the white Jesus with the rest of us. Rest easy, for we are a numerous and widely distributed target. My advice, don't sweat the Mir; your trailer park will live on.
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...unless my teachers gave me the wrong information also. In which case, I don't really see the point of the electoral college and all my hot air is wasted.
You're correct in that regard, that the electors most often support the popular vote. In the general election, the electoral votes are estimated by giving the state's entire allotment of electors to the candidate that attains the majority of the popular vote in that state. This is meant to reflect the eventual official electoral college vote that takes place later on. However, the states electors are free (but don't in reasonable cases) to vote against the popular vote of that state if the need arrises (such as a tyranical yet "cult of personality" leader). Hence, the popular vote does matter, but can be checked by the members of the electoral college; which I believe is a good thing for the safety sake of democracy.
Agreed... a good deal of people I have conversed with indicate to me that they vote out of being swayed emotionally, strict party affiliation, or candidate attractiveness. In my experience, it appears that many people haven't taken the time or made the effort to discover which candidate truly fits their personal political doctrine. Thus, the electoral college is still extremely necessary for the accurate representation of those who really care about politics.
I'm afraid that the SEP field generator you were using failed when you installed the new version of PERL on your server. It seems that the new version has replace the SEP_FieldGen function with an updated SEP_Gen function. Just change the function call in all your Perl Scripts and it should run fine. However, the damage is already done. Remember to read over the "What's Changed" section carefully next time. Or, maybe this is some problem I am remebering from someone else's crash? I can't remember. Hope that helps.
It looks as if we have some "red syndrome" going on here. It's OK, the Russians will no more likely land the mir on your trailer park as they will on any other good christian folk in America. Therefore, you're pretty safe because America seems to have an excess of the sort. Why, just the other day I gave liquor money to the bum on the corner in the name of the white Jesus. I assume, of course, that you worship the white Jesus with the rest of us. Rest easy, for we are a numerous and widely distributed target. My advice, don't sweat the Mir; your trailer park will live on.