Maybe take a history class....it was about slavery ..... not GENIUS. Should no longer be in place.
http://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/
Guess what else increases tax revenue. A new calendar year. Tax revenues go up basically every single year. The only years since 1970 tax revenue didn't go up from the previous year was 1983, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009. Notice anything else about those years? all but 1 of them involve the budgets of a republican president. The 1 that isn't was at the height of a recession. Bush took office and the tax revenue in 2001 was 1.99 trillion. He left office and in 2009 tax revenue was 2.1 trillion. by contrast under Obama tax revenue has gone from the 2.1 trillion to 3.3 trillion this year. Under Clinton they went from 1 trillion to 2.1 trillion in his 8 years. Under Reagan tax revenue went from 600 billion to 900 billion in 8 years. Im no math wizard but i'd say that the tax revenue grows at a higher percentage when a Dem is in office if anything. But either way, cuts or increases, revenue almost always goes up from year to year.
If someone won the top 12 states by size of electoral votes by 1 vote and got zero votes in all of the rest of the states.....they would be president. How could anyone in their right mind consider this a good thing?
The world has changed and this is something that should be changed so that the majority of the votes determines who is the winner. Do any of the states have anything like this where in the governor's race whoever wins the most counties is the governor? Even though in many of the states the wants and needs of the major cities is significantly different than the people that live in the smaller population rural communities.
The world has changed and this is something that should be changed so that the majority of the votes determines who is the winner. Do any of the states have anything like this where in the governor's race whoever wins the most counties is the governor? Even though in many of the states the wants and needs of the major cities is significantly different than the people that live in the smaller population rural communities.
She will go down in history has a nobody.
She was beaten twice as a Presidential candidate.
She was taken behind the woodshed by a non politician.
She couldn`t hold North Carolina,Pennsylvania,Michigan,Florida or Wisconsin.
She embarrassed the hell out of the Democratic party.
She was beaten twice as a Presidential candidate.
She was taken behind the woodshed by a non politician.
She couldn`t hold North Carolina,Pennsylvania,Michigan,Florida or Wisconsin.
She embarrassed the hell out of the Democratic party.
Very Well Said.
With this election and how close we came to the Vote getting decided by Minorities, Liberals and that MASSIVE Voting Bloc that is the Generally Uninformed/Stupid, The American People got taken to the edge of The Abyss from where a view into The Heart of Darkness could be had.
I don't know what the answer is but existing in a place where those mentioned above get to decide upon Our Government is the most incorrect answer there could possibly be.
Latino Vote is growing.....Latino Kids, that group somewhere around 6-10 years old right now....will produced Leaders that'll make Cesar Chavez look like a complete doofus, by comparison.
Our Country is Changing.
That is one brilliant statement when you consider that trump won un educated/ non college american demo by a ton and Clinton won the college educated demo by a ton. Not saying that if you don't have a college degree that you aren't a smart person but lets be real, typically someone with a higher education level is going to be a more intelligent person.
Good Point. I do include though, within that group of "Generally Uninformed/Stupid" the Millions that consciously choose not to research candidates or even find out anything really about them at all, before they cast a Vote.
In Fact, I'm real Guilty of laziness in not specifying that the people I mean with that is the many that focus solely upon their own lives, their own day-to-day grind and decide their Vote based upon who CNN says is best and/or who those they know are voting for.
Choosing the word "Stupid" there was stupid, on my part.
Everyone has a right to vote that is one of our most basic rights.
Or we could use your idea and use intelligence as a basis to determine who runs the country. Lets put extra weight in the votes of the most educated states which are in order:
Mass
Colorado
Maryland
Conn
New Jersey
Virginia
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Minnesota
Washington
Illinois
California
Do you see any theme in those states?
Intelligence and education are not the same. Having a college degree doesn't make me smarter than someone who has no degree. I get that you're unhappy that your preferred candidate didn't win, mine didn't either, but this type of elitist crap is part of the reason Donald Trump is President Elect.
Also, before Trump Nation gets unglued, my preferred candidate wasn't HRC.
My comments have nothing to do with who won or lost. I am just pointing out the facts. The other poster implied he did not want the uneducated to be the people casting the votes to determine who should run the country.
The correlation with education and intelligence is very high. Someone with low intelligence can never be well educated.
I think the electoral college should be changed and everyone has a right to vote unless you have done something where that right is taken away.
I'd called for actual IQ Tests to determine Eligibility to Vote. Certainly not level of Education received.
I'm with Mantis, EasyMoney and others in not being comfortable with number of years in school being the end-all-be-all of determining Intelligence.
Absurd Notion today, Eligibility to Vote based upon Intelligence, but the future is gonna bring Nano-Computers installed on us or even within us that monitor Body Function, even are easily able to determine IQ.
IMO anyways, I am not Nostradamus.
There are no easy answers, we face tough questions. Its just hard for me to imagine a world that continues on a path that sees a large portion of Voters basing their Votes upon which candidate is gonna give them the most Free Stuff.
Decidedly InSTEAD of the candidate that would be best for the world.
Need THIEL to assume Major Position within Council that tries to figure out the Educational Aspect of an approach that provides for Young Black and Brown kids a serious Hand Up.
Gotta do this now. Well.....January 20th 2017 or so.
Whatever anyone says re: Racial Problems, if We make a path for this youth of today, these young black and latino kids, my belief is that many more of them will take this and do great things, unlike similar programs, efforts along these lines...in the past.
There is literally no one better suited to the task of this: "What do We do on....Education?" that Peter Thiel.
He was born for this.
Clear that Calendar, Peter.
It's not about IQ, intelligence, education... it's about conflict of interest. People with no skin in the game shouldn't vote. Period. Not very difficult to understand, our burgeoning debt is all the proof you need.
Once again, the founders were brilliant, while ignorant modern progressives rob people of their private property in order to increase their political power under the guise of "human rights."
