================================================ Subject: Re: This is not Creed discussion anymore...... From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Thu 16 Aug 2001 23:39:30 -0400 ================================================ An accurate description Gina, Since the Electoral College led to voting for a stupid president. Don't you think that popular voting should be implemented? This to prevent the country from implementing the stupidity of the electoral college? Jim ---------------------------------- Gina Kovach wrote: > The system is called Electoral Votes. Basically what it means is that > based on the population of the state, they receive X number of votes in > the presidential election. Big states like California get a large number, > like 50 or something, while Rhode Island only gets maybe one or two. > Whoever the majority of the state's population votes for is the person > that wins the electoral votes. After all the states count their votes, > they call in their electoral votes, and the candidate that has the most > electoral votes wins. This system dates back to when we were first a > country, when the Congress believed the common people were too "stupid" > to elect a president, so the implemented this system as a safeguard. > > -- Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. -- Sinclair Lewis To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp