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The EC works by you voting for someone called a Elector in November. It may say you are voting for a candidate, but in reality you are telling your state electors how you want them to vote for President. Each state has its own number of Electors based on population. But somewhere someone messed up because some states have more that are supposed to have less. In November you cast your vote telling the Electors what President, you want them to vote for. Then In December the Electors tell Congress who the President will be.
This can cause problems like in the 2000 Presidential Election. This bring me to who chooses the Electors ? Well no other then the Political parties. They elect their own Electors. Seems weird to me. But there are rules for the Electors, supposably Electors aren't allowed to vote against their states. Their have been cases in the past where 83 people have voted against their states. Also Electors can choose not to vote at all. Resulting in the other candidate gaining more Electoral votes. American has an indirect voting system for head of state. The People vote for Electors who vote for President. But they don't have to vote. Seems confusing ? Well because it is.
This even confused my parents and they still don't understand how the people vote.
I have showed them proof from different websites and they say its too confusing.
This is a big problem in voting, no one knows how the system really works.
I'm really scared my parents will never understand how the voting system works.
They don't believe that this is even possible.
I believe we should replace this system with Direct Elections with The Alternative Vote.
Sources -
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUS9mM8Xbbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k&feature=relmfu
Alternative Vote Explained -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/alternative-vote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE&feature=channel_video_title
First Past The Post Voting -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo&feature=channel_video_title
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Rick Perry, the disastrous governor from Texas, who flew into the race with both guns blazing, but who has taken an epic faceplant in the debates and speeches, showcasing with pride his less than stellar intellect – or his impending nervous breakdown – which, let’s be honest, makes for some thoroughly enjoyable and snicker-worthy web viewing. After all, he’s merely George W. 2.0, and we all know how well that worked out.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/23/the-daily-show-profiles-rick-perry-video/Rick Perry, the disastrous governor from Texas, who flew into the race with both guns... more
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, struggling with an ambitious agenda on clean air regulations, said it will delay proposing the country's first-ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries.
The delay is the latest setback for the agency's new raft of clean air rules on everything from smog to mercury pollution that are heavily opposed by industry.
The EPA had been required to propose the rules on refineries by mid-December, as part of a court settlement with states and environmental groups.
"EPA expects to need more time to complete work on greenhouse gas pollution standards for oil refineries," a spokeswoman for the agency said. The EPA is working with the litigants to develop a new schedule to replace the current mid-December date for a rule proposal, she added.
The EPA made the comments after sources on both sides of the issue told Reuters the agency would not make the deadline.
The EPA has not told refiners exactly how it plans to cut emissions, and that figuring out how to do so is taking additional time, an oil industry source said.
"How they are going to regulate greenhouse gases, they are not sharing that with us," the source said.
The petroleum industry says it is more difficult to cut emissions from refineries than it is from power plants, the EPA's top target of emissions. Many power utilities can switch from coal, which emits large amounts of carbon dioxide when burned, to burning cleaner natural gas. Refineries, however, mostly already run on natural gas, they argue.
Tough rules on greenhouse gas emissions could add expenses to companies including Exxon Mobil Corp, Valero Energy Corp, and ConocoPhillips.
But refiners can easily cut emissions -- and save money, a source with one of the litigants said. They can do so by replacing inefficient boilers, installing better valves to reduce leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and by generating power with "waste heat" given off at the plants.
The delays on greenhouse gas plans come after President Barack Obama forced the EPA in September to delay new limits on smog emissions until 2013, saying it was part of an effort to reduce regulatory burdens on business.
That decision came as Republicans in the House of Representatives complained about EPA's raft of new clean air regulations, saying they would kill jobs and add expenses to businesses as they struggle with the weak economy.
RECORD EMISSIONS
The delay comes as time may be running out for world efforts to control global warming emissions. Concentrations of carbon dioxide and two other greenhouse gases reached record levels last year and will linger in the atmosphere for decades, even if the world halts output of the gases today, the World Meteorological Organization, the U.N.'s weather agency, said on Monday.
The United States is sticking with Obama's pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. But a comprehensive energy and climate bill failed in the Senate last year, leaving emissions control largely to agencies including the EPA and the Department of Transportation. Last week those agencies proposed doubling auto fuel efficiency.
Meanwhile, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy sources last year rose nearly 4 percent as factories ran harder and as consumers boosted air conditioning during the hot summer.
The EPA has also delayed proposing a plan on reducing emissions from power plants, which are the country's single largest source of emissions blamed for warming the planet.
Those rules were initially delayed in June and again in September. Last week Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator, said the plan on power plants would be rolled out early next year.
It was unclear if the EPA would also miss the deadline to finalize the rules on refineries by mid-November, 2012.
More at the linkThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, struggling with an ambitious agenda on clean... more
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This ad was made by the staff (?) for Bette Grande, who is the Republican (and I even use that term loosely here) in North Dakota running for the House. If you think this is just bizarre wait until you see her announcement video. Does this have Koch Industries written all over it or what? And, she is also a member of ALEC which makes this all the more understandable. And it is also obvious that because she is a scientific illiterate, fear is all that is left. What a horrible joke politics has become.This ad was made by the staff (?) for Bette Grande, who is the Republican (and I even... more
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Nicaraguan protest against Daniel Ortega's electoral fraud. Hundres take to the streets to deman a recount and reject the results.Nicaraguan protest against Daniel Ortega's electoral fraud. Hundres take to the... more
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"Daniel Hernandez Jr., a hero of the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, was elected Tuesday to fill a vacancy on the Sunnyside Unified School District governing board, with 61.8 percent of the vote to Sherrie Burdic’s 36 percent.""Daniel Hernandez Jr., a hero of the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, was elected... more
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"With Sen. Russell Pearce's defeat in this recall election, everyone who practices the politics of fear and division was put on notice." -- US Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)"With Sen. Russell Pearce's defeat in this recall election, everyone who... more
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Herman Cain, the ex-pizza guy, who is now under scrutiny for a settlement that took place after allegations of sexual harassment during Cain’s tenure as a lobbyist for the restaurant industry. But Cain has argued that he never sexually harassed anyone or had to settle any sort of sexual harassment complaint – outside that one, pesky incident.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/11/01/indecision-2012-ruh-roh-pizza-guy-edition-video/Herman Cain, the ex-pizza guy, who is now under scrutiny for a settlement that took... more
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Don't let that title make you think this is something good- it isn't. PNAC, or the Project For A New American Century was a policy paper written by a neo conservative think tank of the same name (with illustrious criminals like Dick Cheney and Richard Perle) and released only two months prior in 2000 to the presidential s-election. It lays out a precise plan for American domination around the world starting with the attack on Iraq following the 9.11 attack on the WTC (which would coincidentally certainly qualify as the "New Pearl Harbor" laid out in the paper needed to facilitate this plan.) And it is still being facilitated today as recently as in Libya. So for those who think this is some "conspiracy theory" I would say you are wrong.
Also don't wonder why Al Gore, the duly elected president of this country in 2000 was not allowed to serve his term. He would not have engaged this agenda, so he too had to be kept from serving the people. Wonder why as well there was such a concerted media attack on him and still is? This had all been planned and it appears the current administration is following through with it. And that goes all the way in my view to the OWS protests which are being silenced now. It is the OILIGARCHY which has such a chokehold on this world that is also behind this. You know, the BP that has just been given permission to once again drill and despoil the Gulf, as well as Shell which is going to be allowed to now despoil the Arctic. Why do you think these companies are never truly held responsible for their crimes and are just allowed to keep going no matter what? In my view nothing will truly change in this world or country until the OILIGARCHY is brought down and we won't do that by continuing to drive our cars everywhere we go and continuing to vote for propped up candidates who approve drilling and pipelines on any side.
This is also why you see no real movement regarding climate change in the U.S. government nor any aggressive move to renewable energy (also mentioned in the video) that could have been accomplished already if this system wasn't rotten to its core. So for those as well who think climate change is some hoax while decrying PNAC, you actually help them in their work. It is not renewable energy and holding these corporations part of this plan accountable that will break this economy, it is the WARS already being fought to accomodate THEIR GREED that have already brought down the world economies.
So listen to this video as it lays out some truth about more than likely why our entire voting system in America was subverted in 2000 as the first step to this takeover and domination of the world oil markets and other resources at any cost and then go from there connecting the dots. You may well be totally surprised at the fact that those you think are on your side don't really care about you in comparison to the true prize they think they are getting at the expense of our planet.
The Bush clan and those who enable them are evil personified and may I say traitors to this country and they still walk free while we were denied a truly good president. Ask how that can happen in a country that is a "democratic republic" and supposedly on the side of truth, justice and the law. And don't wonder why some of us have lost complete faith in both parties. One party that subverts and the other that enables it. Both the same in my book.
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From the video:
Established in the spring of 1997 and funded largely by the energy and arms industries, the Project for the New American Century was founded as the neoconservative think tank whose stated goal was to usher in a "new American century".
Having won the cold war and no military threat to speak of, this group of ideologues created a blueprint for the future whose agenda was to capitalize upon our surplus of military forces and funds and forcing American hegemony and corporate privatization throughout the world.
Their goals:
1) Increase an already enormous military budget at the expense of domestic social programs
2) Toppling of regimes resistant to our corporate interests
3) Forcing democracy at the barrel of a gun in regions that have no history of the democratic process
4) Replacing the UN's role of preserving and extending international order
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La. Gov. Bobby Jindal wins re-election easily
By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press | AP – 1 hr 25 mins ago
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday easily coasted to a second term, winning in a landslide election after failing to attract any well-known or deep-pocketed opposition.
The 40-year-old Republican overwhelmed nine competitors in the open primary, where a candidate wins the race outright if he or she receives more than 50 percent of the vote. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Jindal had received about 66 percent of the total vote.
His closest competitor, Tara Hollis, a Democrat from north Louisiana, garnered nearly 18 percent of the total vote. All of the other candidates were in single digits.
"I will use every day, every hour of these next four years to make Louisiana the very best that we can be. I don't believe in resting on our past accomplishments. I don't believe in taking time off," Jindal told a packed hotel ballroom of supporters in Baton Rouge.
Jindal piled up $15 million in campaign cash from around the nation and attracted no Democratic challengers with statewide name recognition or fundraising heft. He's had consistently high approval ratings since taking office in 2008.
His win comes amid the virtual collapse of the Democratic Party's clout in the state. In the current term, Republicans have gained control of all seven statewide elected posts and both chambers of the legislature. Hollis was an outsider to the political establishment and was unable to drum up the cash needed to challenge Jindal or mount a big-ticket advertising competition.
The first Indian-American governor in the United States, Jindal is considered by some a possible presidential contender in the future. He recently published a book and regularly appears on national news shows, but he ruled out a 2012 run.
Still, his brand of conservatism and refusal to raise taxes has resonated outside the state. His new term begins in January.
The race that received more attention in Louisiana was the one for lieutenant governor, because the officeholder is next in line should Jindal step down because of his national political ambitions.
Incumbent Jay Dardenne, who took office after a special election last year, had 53 percent of the ballot in defeating Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser with 47 percent , results showed with 99 percent of precincts reporting. Like Jindal, Nungesser was a vocal critic of the federal response to the massive Gulf oil spill.La. Gov. Bobby Jindal wins re-election easily
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Yes, that McCain — but only if kept far from attractive, belligerently-ignorant starlet V.P.’s. Sorry, Michele, blame the Palin. Romney works, lacking the attack-dog growl, or maybe a reconditioned, feisty Perry if he passes candidate-in-training drills. Playacting politico Herman Cain could fit — a sop to minorities, but this time without giving the black guy real power. Consider the rhythmic, incantatory magic of a “McCain-Cain” ticket — or their motto: “War Hero and Cain, too, Fearless on Muslims, terrorists, whistleblowers and illegals.” Look, re-nominating McCain is no less crazed than veteran pundit Earl Hutchinson’s jaw-dropping, serious daydream, “The Unthinkable: a Cain Versus Obama Match-Up.”Yes, that McCain — but only if kept far from attractive, belligerently-ignorant... more
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"The only way we can change things, short of revolution, is through winning elections. If we acquiesce in allowing false accusations of voter fraud to be used to exclude significant portions of the electorate from participating, we will have lost the battle, the election, before the first vote is cast.""The only way we can change things, short of revolution, is through winning... more
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"Wake County School Board has had a 5-4 Republican majority since low-turnout races in 2009 unseated some Democrats. Republican Ron Margiotta was then named chairman and he has not skipped a beat in terms of undoing decades of progress. One of Margiotta's main prerogatives since taking office has been to reverse public school integration policies, a nefarious plan which was approved by a 5-4 margin two months ago. One of the organizations pushing this was none other than the Koch Brothers themselves. Naturally, Chairman Margiotta became a big target for Democrats. He also happened to be up for re-election today in his Republican-leaning 8th district...""Wake County School Board has had a 5-4 Republican majority since low-turnout... more
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Not satisfied with their current picks of the litter, they’ve been hoping against hope that Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), Koch brothers darling and rude jackass extraordinaire, will jump in the race and save them all from their own nightmarish insanity that is manifesting itself in the form of their batshit crazy candidates, as they slowly approach the harsh realization that batshit crazy will never get elected.
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One of the biggest beefs I have with those of the Libertarian persuasion is the idea that in a country of over 300 million people, now struggling to survive in a global setting and a global economy, no federal government whatsoever can somehow work and that if you allow every man to be an island and allow the free market to police itself, everything will somehow turn out OK, because it’s worked out so well in the past.
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From the article: “[Gessler's suit] would disproportionately affect the elderly, young voters, low income voters, the disabled…That’s not uniformity,” Dumm told the Colorado Independent. “These are legally registered voters. There’s a huge number of people who voted in the presidential election of 2008 who didn’t vote in the off-presidential election of 2010. They’re still registered. He’s creating a new class of voters.”From the article: “[Gessler's suit] would disproportionately affect the... more
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