Why is it these America haters always want to change the rules when things don't go their way? Why is it they say the "System is broken" when they loose?
Being a NH resident I do not want to see us loose the "1st in the Nation Primary" (refering to his proposal of 6 regional primarys during elections years). But why oh why does everything have to change to fit the way the Libs want it to?
The beauty of the Electoral college is that it (somewhat) deters politicians from pandering to the most populous parts of the country while ignoring the backwaters. I think Nelson from Nebraska proposed this. Makes me wonder, ‘cause Nebraska would be ignored even more than it already is under his proposal.
the more I hear Nelson talk the more comvinced I am that someone switched Nitrous Oxide for Oxygen when he went into space-this guy is a goof.
Maybe the conservative red Southern states are tired of RINO's being picked year after year. I have said over and over on FR that a Southern Democrat, like Zell Miller or Mary Landrieau is always more conservative than a Northern Republican like Jeffords. Why let the liberal Northeast ever pick our nominee again, I wonder, we will get a RINO every time. If we want a true conservative Republican nominee, the first states to vote in the primary should be: Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma with probably Utah, Alaska, and the Dakotas voting soon after.
Oh yeah...so NY,CA,FL,NJ could choose the President for the rest of the USA. I’m sure all the states with mid-to-small populations will really go for that.
I thought astronauts had to be intelligent, but apparently not.
The 2000 mess was contrived by the Supreme Court of Florida which decided to alter its lawful election procedures after the completion of the election that year. The result was a smackdown by the US Supreme Court 7 - 2 which told the Florida Court that it had to abide by its own laws - what a concept. The second trip to the US Supreme Court, 5 - 4 decided Florida didn’t have time to recount the votes in the lawfully prescribed time period.
The massive efforts of the zany, ultra, mega, wacky, freaky, far left to undo a lawful election had failed. And they have never stopped the childish whining. Now, their efforts to destroy the US centers around undoing a procedure contrived by men of much weightier stuff that Senator Nelson. I cannot trust any current representative to design a fair tax system, I surely cannot trust any of them to redesign the US government. 2000 was not the first time a person won the election without a majority of votes cast. In fact, the impeached former president Clinton deserves the designation as the only person to serve two terms as president while NEVER receiving a majority of votes cast.
What a sour, whiny bunch of sore losers.
Aren't the dems still trying to figure out which Texas delegates will be seated at the convention? And here they want to impose their thought process on the whole country.
This is the surest way to cause the Balkanization of the US.
Why not just do away with the law requiring 2 Senators from each state and just vote for our Senators on a national basis, regardless of which state they’re from? So what if we have 10 senators from CA, 10 from NY and 8 or so from IL and NJ? That prospect is absurd, but no different than what Nelson is proposing by eliminating the Electoral College.
Nelson is one of those rare politicians who has his own “machine” independent of the party.
He is still a kook, but he is going to be hard to unseat.
FL would be stupid to pass this.
Always remember that in the few months before the 2000 presidential election, the Dems thought that they would win the EC and lose the popular vote, so newspapers at the time were full of op-eds about the sanctity of the EC. Now that they can't figure it out they want to kill it in the name of "democracy" just as they killed the states' voices in the Senate with the 17th Amendment.
What I would Like to see is the primaries held throughout the country on the same day. By the time the primaries hits the west, it has already been decided who the canidates are going to be.
That description fits Nelson to a tee. I live in Florida. He turns my stomach every time he opens his mouth.
It would take a Constitutional amendment to get rid of the electoral college, at least if they plan on doing it "legally." Of course, that never stopped leftists... Or congress now that I think of it.
Mark
Heck NO.
He was not a real astronaut. He was picked to fly a mission because his congressional district took in Cape Canaveral. By sucking up to him by giving him a free ride on the shuttle, it insured NASA of getting their budgets approved by Congress for years to come. I believe Barfin' Jake Garn of Utah had a similar free ride.