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THINGS I FOUND APPALLING
Let's start the week with things I found appalling last week.
First on the list is Putin criticizing the US for creating a new arms race. It's not that I didn't agree with him - because I did - it's just that I found it appalling that Putin of all people was talking about us making the world more dangerous. A guy that assassinates people who criticize him and a country that, as far as I see it, is already engaged in an indirect war with the United States by supplying arms to Iran and to Venezuela. So, yeah we are endangering the world by increasing the number of countries seeking protection from us by buying weapons for their defense, but you're the guy selling them the weapons!
If the U.S. launches an air strike against Iran this year or next, it will be Russian made SA - 15 Gauntlet missiles shooting back at us, and Russian made torpedoes launched at our ships.
The second thing I found appalling is the failure of the National Popular Vote Plan to eliminate the electoral college and move the presidential election into a popular vote like governorships, senators, and representatives. I'm sure someone smarter than me could make a very well constructed case for keeping the electoral college, but it's not this guy:
Yeah, it's called a majority fellow, an up and down vote. I don't get it. Why do the 642,200 people of the state of North Dakota have to have be equal to the 18,976,457 of New York? The electoral votes aren't distributed equally. New York has 31 to North Dakotas' 3.
It was the electoral college that brought us the Bush administration not the people of the United States. That alone should warrant an overhaul of the voting process.
First on the list is Putin criticizing the US for creating a new arms race. It's not that I didn't agree with him - because I did - it's just that I found it appalling that Putin of all people was talking about us making the world more dangerous. A guy that assassinates people who criticize him and a country that, as far as I see it, is already engaged in an indirect war with the United States by supplying arms to Iran and to Venezuela. So, yeah we are endangering the world by increasing the number of countries seeking protection from us by buying weapons for their defense, but you're the guy selling them the weapons!
If the U.S. launches an air strike against Iran this year or next, it will be Russian made SA - 15 Gauntlet missiles shooting back at us, and Russian made torpedoes launched at our ships.
The second thing I found appalling is the failure of the National Popular Vote Plan to eliminate the electoral college and move the presidential election into a popular vote like governorships, senators, and representatives. I'm sure someone smarter than me could make a very well constructed case for keeping the electoral college, but it's not this guy:
Republican North Dakota state Rep. Lawrence Klemin made this insightful observation. "...if this were to become the law, our presidential elections would be controlled by the vote in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston. They would decide who the president was, not the rest of us."
Yeah, it's called a majority fellow, an up and down vote. I don't get it. Why do the 642,200 people of the state of North Dakota have to have be equal to the 18,976,457 of New York? The electoral votes aren't distributed equally. New York has 31 to North Dakotas' 3.
It was the electoral college that brought us the Bush administration not the people of the United States. That alone should warrant an overhaul of the voting process.
posted by Bobot Adrenaline at 6:03 PM
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The plan is still alive and kicking. See www.NationalPopularVote.org. It's based on state governments deciding to cast their electoral votes for the winner of the national popular vote, not the winner of the statewide popular vote. So it operates within the confines of the Electoral College, but it shifts us over to a national popular vote by states exercising their authority to cast their electoral votes anyway they want to. California passed this law last year but Arnold vetoed it. It would be good for California residents to tell your Governor to sign the bill in 2007. It would also be good to tell your state legislators to support the bill again. The article said the plan is dead, but that only means that the bill came up for a vote in two states, and we came up short. We still have 48 states to go in 2007, and I'm sure we'll keep working in Montana and North Dakota to try to convince voters there that they would be better off with a national popular vote where their votes were just as relevant as everyone else's vote in the nation, instead of being totally ignored as they are under the status quo.
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