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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Tanypteryx writes:
but the most totally fucked up part is after putting up with the stupidity of primaries and finally a national election, we have the electoral count that chooses the president instead of total votes. Is the population ratio to number of representatives fixed in the Constitution as it is today (about 758k per Rep)? We could double the number of Representatives by halving the the population ratio down to 376k, increasing the districts (which may have a side effect of ameliorating the gerrymandering badness). This would cut the power of Wyoming's 2 senators for it's Electoral College count in half. Kinda like the NRA arguing for more guns, I suppose, because we'd get 435 more Congress persons. Would this require an amendment to the Constitution?- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
I want Bernie Sanders to pick Willie Nelson as a running mate.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
we need the redneck vote.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Actually I believe this was done on purpose. A few years ago a basketball player was being interviewed (or maybe a football player?) and was asked about why he was so good from both sides. He looked straight at the camera grinning and said "Because I'm amphibious!" This was ricocheted around the sports world and after the initial laughter died down became a meme similar to "pwned". Note the second paragraph spells it right.
In 1995 the Red Sox had a pitcher, Greg Harris, who was begging the manager to let him pitch from both sides. Never was allowed to, then traded to the Montreal farm system, where he did get a few minor league innings before ending his career. I was astonished to learn that the baseball rules already had in place the restrictions for what to do when a switchhitter faces a switch pitcher. I was listening to this game when Blake Swihart, the rookie switchhitting catcher came up against Venditte. Venditte has a 6-fingered glove. The Rule states that the pitcher has to tell first which arm he will use for the entire At Bat (unless the batter is unable to complete the At Bat and is replaced during the At Bat by another). Pat signaled he would pitch righty and Swihart batted lefty, making an out. After years & years of pondering this question, I finally got to observe it in my lifetime. Way back in the early 60's or maybe the late 50's our scout troop went to Tiger Stadium and we all got to ask a major leaguer 1 question. I was in pitcher Phil Regan's row and asked him if he'd ever heard of a switchpitcher. He said that there was one he'd heard of in the minors, but none had major league level. So there you are.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Golden adds in:
"I want to simulate your erroneous zones." Now there might be a reason to be "amphibious".- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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mikechell opines:
illegal immigrants ...( deletia )... have not put ANY tax money into the system This is a LIE. Sorry. What they don't do is get any return on their taxes.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Faith ends with
And I'm not particularly defending the conservatives in this country. I don't think they know what they are doing, and most of the time they support the exact opposite of what they should be supporting. Thank you.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
RAZD writes:
...{deletia}... From New Hampshire: Bernie 24Hillary 9 ...{more deletia}... are you sure that was right? I saw 13 and 9, not 24 and 9. There were 8 suprdelegates of which 6 were already committed to Hillary. At that time the 2 undecided could have gone either way, making it anywhere from 15-15 to 13-17. ??? And then today RCP has this different count: realclearpolitics.com Edited by xongsmith, : Another country heard from- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
RAZD writes:
The dem establishment instigated this after McGovern ... so that they could retain some control over the party. They account for 15% to 20% of the total delegates. Listing them now is an establishment move to discourage Bernie voters, because they can change their minds, and historically have followed the popular vote. And I think they justified it by arguing that the superdelegates got to be so by virtue of past election support - a sort of delayed will of the people, so to speak. Certainly the DNC establishment didn't want any more McGoverns (despite him being the 1st major party candidate I ever actually voted FOR as opposed to AGAINST) since he lost so badly to the CROOK. I can still see the cartoon, in H.S.Thompson's Fear & Loathing On the Campaign Trail, of McGovern's fist exploding through the establishment background. But that didn't stop Dukakis' & Mondale's epic fails. Perhaps - nay, most certainly! - the attempt to slow down emotional fervor in the primaries was implemented very badly.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
It is not even simple to answer. The 2 parties do it differently!
RealClearPolitics has a breakdown:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...ican_delegate_count.html Strange superdelegate rules in the footnotes.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...atic_delegate_count.html What is the difference between semi-open and semi-closed? Partly sunny versus partly cloudy?- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Faith blurts out:
Gay marriage has been supported against the wishes of the people ...maybe against the wishes of a minority of the people. The majority supports it. Changing Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage | Pew Research Center- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Faith rites:
I guess you are alluding to what Trump said, but he never said to ban all Muslims permanently, just to take the time to find out "what's going on" Do you mean like, say, a waiting period of 18-24 months? Like what is already in place today?- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Lammy was thinking momentarily that:
Bernie Sanders is trying to be the next Ralph Nader. No he isn't. Ralphie thought there was no significant difference between Gore & Bush, whereas Bernie has pledged to do everything he can to defeat Trump and defeat him badly. Bernie most certainly abhorrent of being the next Nader....- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
What if Hillary picks Rep. John Lewis, aged 76, to be her running mate?
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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Lammy writes:
Nader's vision for change gave us 8 years of GWB, 2 decade long wars, thousands of American lives lost, and several steps backward on the human rights front. Actually it has been shown that Nader was not the one who cost Gore the election. Truth be told: it was Gore himself, with his lousy campaigning.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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