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It's well within your rights as a 'Murrican to register and then forever ignore the election process completely.
no, there's no obligation
I'll never ing understand people who don't vote... It's beyond me
It's well within your rights as a 'Murrican to register and then forever ignore the election process completely.
Kang is the clear choice.
I live in Arizona and I'm not exactly proud of Obama or the Democratic party, and I'm certainly not voting for 2 morons who STILL preach supply-side economics after its 30 years of failure. No one in politics remotely agrees with my views (i.e. not wasting billions keeping old people alive) so i don't see any reason to vote.
Thanks.
I guess after being obligated to cast a vote for many years, actually having the option to not do it is somewhat appealing.
and one more thing, since I'm on my soapbox
They also need to take away the ability to vote along a single party line.
Eh, maybe not such a good idea... turnout would go down even further if people had to actually read their ballot and think critically in each race
They shouldn't even say on the ballot whether or not the person is Dem or Rep. You'd better research beforehand and know who these people are or don't bother showing up.
I get it dude, for sure. You're stuck in a red state with ty options. But ultimately, imo, the local races are going to affect you more than will the presidential one, and they are often very close
every vote counts = "mob rule"
The electoral college marginalizes the vote and voice of millions of Americans.
I'm leaving this backwater hole once I'm done with school and get a job on the east coast, so the local elections won't affect me much either
I guess I can dig that. You're Argentine, right? Didn't know there was an obligation down there.
Not enough grass roots support for that kind of derailment of the status quo, tbh. The problem with "third party" is that it means so many things to so many people...makes it hard to rally around a specific candidate. Meanwhile, you have the two big parties doing their best to bring any grass roots movement under their umbrella to control it and ultimately broaden their base of support.
I can parry that one too...Most of NYC was a disgusting hole in the 70's and 80's, while now it looks like a different planet in many places...The revitalization of Brooklyn being the centerpiece, imo. Granted, parts are still ish, but mostly the work (politically) was done by local officials who had to be voted inI'm leaving this backwater hole once I'm done with school and get a job on the east coast, so the local elections won't affect me much either
I've got family that lives in the nicest burbs (Jew connections ) just outside of Queens. If I get a job in Manhattan I can live with them rent free and take the train every day. My living expenses will be low while I'll be getting higher salary people get when they start in NYC.
Can I write in alex jones?
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There is a good reason: the President governs 50 states, not just two... therefore, all 50 should have a say...
Wrong, tbh... in a popular vote system, all a candidate would really need to do to become president is win a clear majority of the vote in Texas, Florida, New York, and California, and barely eke out a respectable percentage everywhere else....The Electoral College is ridiculous and completely unequal. If it was gone each person's vote would matter the same.
Pandering is way too prevalent now, but just imagine how bad it could get if the candidates literally only had to campaign in a select few large population centers that run the gamut of political opinions... everybody would be forced into the middle, and we would officially have no real choice anymore, tbh....The electoral college is what intensifies the pandering. Not sure how you can argue the opposite.
MannyIsGook making yet another re ed proposal imho. if each person's vote is counted equally on the national scale, they might as well expand the voting to other countries and make it a ASG style so you s would control the US politics like they should do, right?
if the US annexed china as the 51st state someday, then the asian state with a population of over a billion would pretty much dominate the whole union, and that's definitely not what the real americans want to see tbh. just give them a fair number of electoral votes based on their relevance and they have nothing to complain about tbh.
seriously tho, if the election counts people's total votes instead of electoral votes, states like texas and california would pretty much dominate the election and exceedingly the whole country. even texans & calis won't want this happening tbh
TARP,stimulus and auto bailout "yea" votes show his bona fides there.
Yeah, and a simple popular vote would do just that.
So get out of school, make a high salary, and mooch off of relatives. Sounds like a great plan.
The popular vote system would marginalize the vote of southern and western states, which tend to favor property rights, fiscal conservatism, and the Second Amendment, while amplifying the voice of large left-leaning population centers, tbh...
I'm voting for Gary Johnson.
popular vote =|= winner take all on a state by state basis.
It's a lot better than working 80 hours a week and spending most of the money paying rent on some hole studio apartment in Manhattan. Being able to save money in your 20s is the only way people my age are gonna be able to retire before age 80.
That sounds great. I would cut off a toe to live in NYC. Sadly, although I keep getting better jobs, I keep moving farther away from water, and thus deeper into the boring interior of these United States
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