Ok, I know this is probably going to sound naive or insane or maybe even stupid but let me just throw this thought out there. Instead of the delegate/super-delegate (and don’t even get me started on the Electoral College) business that we are being forced to sort of participate in, yeah, instead of all that mularky, how about this instead? How about every single American of voting age votes for their candidate of choice and, when all the voting is done, whoever gets the most votes…
...wins.
Is that so crazy? I mean, that’s actually how I thought it worked when I was growing up. I didn’t realize that there were “powerful” decision makers that could vote against what the common folk decided thereby rendering their (our) votes meaningless. I didn’t realize that there were “powerful” decision makers that could declare that millions of people’s votes don’t count because some bureaucratic morons decided to break the rules and vote too early. I didn’t realize that you didn’t have to have more votes than the other guy to get “elected” into office.
Of the People, By the People and For the People, right? Yeah, not as much as I once thought, I’m afraid.
“I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.” - Hillary Clinton, 11/20/2000
We the people never mattered, Buzz. I learned that a long time ago, and it fuckin’ sucks.
They think we’re stupid, telling us our votes matter, but turn around and state the Super Delgates will have the final say. WTF!
You’d think that after a couple of hundred years that someone would’ve thought of that—but no, it took you to come along and point that out! Wow! Only in America! Well, the United States of America. Down in Venezuela, in South America, where that guy Chavez, the one Bush criticizes at every opportunity, has subjugated the masses, the people voted; and after the votes were counted, the people decided not to make Chavez president for life. Imagine that, in a backwater place like Venezuela, so novel an idea as “one person, one vote” was put into practice.