Praise the lord indeed.....you are one strange carbon based biped El Stinko.
Apathy
- Thread starter DirtyDog
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I get the point of being active in local elections...
I also agree with the people on here who say that voters should reaserch who and what they are voting for. I've seen many cases of people voting for a cantidate/proposition simply because they have a strong ad campaign or because their friend/church/group is voting for it.
As for the presidential elections though...that is a whole different monster...I tend to start sliding towards the whole "your vote does not really count" deal. I mean come on, I was pretty young back in 2000 but I remember how rediculous that election was.
1876: Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes trailed Tilden in popular vote but won in electoral college by one vote. Voter fraud on all sides. Competing sets of electors in three southern states and Oregon. Special national commission awarded Hayes all the contested electors on a party-line vote (8 republicans, seven democrats).
1888: Benjamin Harrison had most electoral votes but fewer popular votes. Harrison lost popular vote to Cleveland but won electoral vote. No outcry.
1960: If Alabama's votes were counted a different way, Richard Nixon would have had more votes than John F. Kennedy.
2000: George W. Bush beats Al Gore. Bush has 47.9 percent of popular vote, Gore had 48.4 percent.
I also agree with the people on here who say that voters should reaserch who and what they are voting for. I've seen many cases of people voting for a cantidate/proposition simply because they have a strong ad campaign or because their friend/church/group is voting for it.
As for the presidential elections though...that is a whole different monster...I tend to start sliding towards the whole "your vote does not really count" deal. I mean come on, I was pretty young back in 2000 but I remember how rediculous that election was.
1876: Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes trailed Tilden in popular vote but won in electoral college by one vote. Voter fraud on all sides. Competing sets of electors in three southern states and Oregon. Special national commission awarded Hayes all the contested electors on a party-line vote (8 republicans, seven democrats).
1888: Benjamin Harrison had most electoral votes but fewer popular votes. Harrison lost popular vote to Cleveland but won electoral vote. No outcry.
1960: If Alabama's votes were counted a different way, Richard Nixon would have had more votes than John F. Kennedy.
2000: George W. Bush beats Al Gore. Bush has 47.9 percent of popular vote, Gore had 48.4 percent.