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Understanding the Electoral College

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The ground shook in 2000 as the cries of outrage rang across the United States. “What do you MEAN the popular vote didn’t win!?!?!” One could hardly blame the citizens for being shocked; it’s not something that happens often.  Until recent years, the last time this happened was in 1888!  The Electoral College vote had over-ridden the popular vote. George Bush went into office in 2000… by the grace of just five electoral votes, despite having gotten 543,816 fewer popular … Continue reading →

Throw the Bums Out!

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What would you do If you owned a company and none of your employees listened to you, they lied to you, didn’t do the jobs you gave them to do, and in fact, were actually working for your competition and selling your company down the river as fast as they could? I don’t think you’d keep them on and give them a raise! Well, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing, only in this case, your company is our Federal Government, … Continue reading →

Why the United States is Not a Democracy

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The United States is not a Democracy? What an outrageous claim to make! Or so it would seem… In fact, the United States of America is actually a Republic. The other terms bandied about amongst political scientists are “Representative Democracy” and “Constitutional Republic”. And this isn’t just a dictionary-zealot splitting hairs here; there are very important distinctions between a pure Democracy and what we have in the USA. And confusing the issue can actually lead to gross mistakes. For instance, … Continue reading →