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How the U.S. Presidential Voting System Works

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  1. simple mind

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    Well, I don't know why people are still interested in this, in all the second term elections in the past there were only a few that the former president did not get his second term, so why get exited about it and spend hundreds of millions for the campaigning, just give them a 8 years term and use the money for the betterment of the system, also, no matter who is at the helm of that ship and no amount of "DucTape" will avoid it going down the drain, sorry to say so but since we invented "Fractional Reserve Banking/Lending" we signet up for the hell rides that are becoming more disastrous as long as we don't allow the correction of the system...
     
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    I think you are crying in your cup. He did win the popular vote also so no reason to concede in this election. He fought harder and won! His opponent was willing to buy what his team was selling, unfortunately for him he could not hide his flip-flopping. Google: Will the real Mitt Romney please standup! for some great laughs and lessons in how not to run an election.
     
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    Yes Obama won, in some places by as much as 140% of the eligible voters. Many places Obama won 99.5-140% of the vote, in each one of those places the GOP poll watchers were forcibly thrown out In some places 12 hours before the polls closed Obama was already anounced the winner... along with not counting absentee votes.... and in those places it wasn't always a landslide. So how did Obama exactly win? Obviously not by just being The People's choice...
     
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    I guess something similar can be said of the GOP run states where they tried to suppress the minority vote by cutting down on voting days and hours. I have never believed that absentee votes are ever counted but that is my thought about it.
     
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    How does cutting down the days and hours effect minorities any less then non minorities? One could even argue it helps minorities as minorities have a higher likelihood to be on welfare and thus not working and more time to vote.... One can always make something look to be in their favor when its BS with a specific way of looking at it.

    But cutting down days/hours effects everyone the same.

    But could also say not counting absentee votes is another Dem tactic as those traditionally using absentee ballots have been elderly who tend to side conservative.

    But really done replying this thread. No interest in political squabbles on this forum :smile: We're all here to enjoy life right?
     
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    But really done replying this thread. No interest in political squabbles on this forum We're all here to enjoy life right?
    Or hide from reality but who I am to say it ain't so... Enjoy...
     
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    "But really done replying this thread. No interest in political squabbles on this forum We're all here to enjoy life right?"

    Or hide from reality but who I am to say it ain't so... Enjoy...
     
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    " A thousand ploughmen consume fully as much corn and cloth in the course of a year as a regiment of soldiers. But the difference between the kinds of consumption is immense.
    The labor of the ploughman has, during the year, served to call into existence a quantity of property, which not only repays corn and cloth which he has consumed, but repays it with a profit.
    The soldier on the other hand produces nothing. What he has consumed has gone, and his place is left absolutely vacant. The country is the poorer for his consumption , to the full amount of what he has consumed. It is not the poorer, but the richer for what the ploughman has consumed, because, during the time he was consuming it, he has reproduced what does more than replace it."

    Adam Smith
     
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    If you can't win fairly, cheat! O-|
     

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    Obama will make your Country great again. Hope so anyway, that Romney bloke would have started WW3
     
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