What will we do, if anything ?

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Lets just say for the sake of argument that Bush wins the populace vote, and Gore wins the electoral vote. What is everyone’s opinion on what will happen next.


Will the people rise up and try and take control of their country again and renounce Gore as the president of the United States?


Will the Military take orders from a president that was not voted into office by the people of the United States?


Or will they become sheep and passively pay lip service to the event and pretend that one more of their rights have not been taken away from them.


This election could be more interesting than anyone could have ever imagined.
 
Bush wins the populace vote, and Gore wins the electoral
vote. .....

Impossible.

Will the people rise up and try and take control of their country again and renounce Gore as the
president of the United States?

They did not do it for his boss.

Will the Military take orders from a president that was not voted into office by the people of the
United States?

Madelyn Albright and Mufume give the orders.

Or will they become sheep and passively pay lip service to the event and pretend that one more of
their rights have not been taken away from them.

Definitely.
 
Some will speak of the positives of the electorial college, some will speak of the negatives of the electorial college, few or none will do anything.
 
Thems the rules, and you don't get to change them just because your guy loses. Here's a quote from George Will: "The electoral vote system shapes the character of winning majorities. By avoiding proportional allocation of electoral votes, America's system--under which Ross Perot in 1992 got 19 percent of the popular votes and zero electoral votes--buttresses the dominance of two parties, and pulls them to the center,
producing a temperate politics of coalitions rather than a proliferation of ideological factions with charismatic leaders."

He's right. Without the Electoral College, we'd have dozens of small parties based on region, religion, race/ethnicity, god-knows-what, and a very divided, factionalized country, with tiny political parties selling their support to the highest bidder. A true mess. Imagine Israeli politics on the scale of this country. No thanks.
 
Without the Electoral College, we'd have dozens of small parties based on region, religion, race/ethnicity, god-knows-what, and a very divided, factionalized country, with tiny political parties selling their support to the highest bidder. A true mess. Imagine Israeli politics on the scale of this country.
Byron-- that's exactly what I was thinking-- don't the Israeli's even have a party for some gal whose main claim to fame is that she posed nekked a while ago?
"Democracy" is just a tarted-up word for mob rule...
 
The military oath begins: "I ________ Do solomnly swear (or affirm), to Protect and defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States against ALL enemies, foriegn or DOMESTIC....

That oath doesn't require one uphold the will of the people, only that you protect and defend the Constitution. The Electoral College is a part of that Constitution, so why would the troops all of a sudden become populists, instead of protectors of a Republic? If the Electoral College decides against the popular vote, then the troops have sworn to uphold that decision as it is Constitutional.
I would refuse to take orders from someone who refuses to take orders from their appropriate chain of Command. We may not like it, but the Electoral College decides the president, not the people. It is there for a purpose, and a very good purpose IMO.
We will never see the end of the EC because it would require ratification of an amendment to rid ourselves of it. This will make it possible for large states such as California to dictate law and policy to small states such as Wyoming, Montanna, Alaska, RI, Kansas ect... Without the Electoral College, Presidential Candidates would never set foot in these smaller states because all they'd need to do is lock up FL, CA, TX, NY, MI, and they'd have the election won. The EC is brilliant in my opinion.
Our founders knew what they were doing, we should quit second guessing them. As a matter of fact we should repeal the 15th, 16th and 17th amendment. These were all passed when this country felt it knew better than the men who designed our Republic. All of them suck.
How many of you in small states would like to have laws resembling California and New York? I thought so.

[This message has been edited by kjm (edited November 03, 2000).]
 
The Constitution is the Constitution; however, Gore will be a weak, and I mean weak, president. He will probably be as effective (thank the lord) as a lame duck prez serving out the last 2 years of term.

Grab a friend and vote Bush. I would like to relax a little about protecting my 2nd Amendment rights by having Bush in office.

madison
 
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