Did You Know . . . . . . no matter how long you have voted and no matter for whom you voted, you have never really voted for a President . . . never! Presidents are not elected by the citizens of the United States of America. They are elected by an Electoral College (shudder). All we do as citizens is elect people into that Electoral College, and then they vote for the President and Vice President. Each state has a total number of Electoral College delegates equal to the number of Representatives plus Senators the state has, for instance, Arkansas has 6, California has 55, New Mexico has 5, Alabama has 9, Maryland has 10, Missouri has 11 and Texas has 34. What is distressing is that there have been four Presidents elected that were not elected by the popular vote . . . your vote. That is correct, we have had people in the presidency that most of the people in the U. S. voted against or I should say, didn’t vote for. In 1824, most of the people voted for Andrew Jackson but the Electoral College voted for John Quincy Adams. In 1876, the majority of Americans voted for Samuel Tilden (ever hear of him?), but Ruther B. Hayes was elected instead by the good old Electoral College. A few years later, in 1888, President Grover Cleveland was not reelected; it went to Benjamin Harrison instead. Do you have any idea who the last man to be elected to the Presidency that was defeated in the Popular Vote? Yeah, you got it, George W. Bush, in 2000 when the Supreme Court awarded Florida to Bush and that is how we got one of the worst Presidents in our history, and he was a gift from the Supreme Court. Al Gore got the popular vote and we go Bush as President. Maine and Nebraska elect their Electoral College delegates a little differently, but their combined votes are just 17, so no one protests. There are several movements to change all this and one day it might change but don’t be fooled, your vote for the President doesn’t count, except to elect a member to the Electoral College. Please don’t let that keep you from voting. Unless you vote you will be allowing others to tell you who will be President. If your vote wasn’t important, the Republicans wouldn’t be trying to take it away from you. Remember, get informed, stay informed, and vote with good information on the best person you can find.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 03:07:25 +0000
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