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Should Everyone Have a Vote?

By ⋅ January 15, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Yesterday we considered the Electoral College, but in order to fully appreciate the discussion, I think we need to look into the system that was set up by the Founders.  When we look at this question, however, we have to start with voting, and what we find may be shocking to some of you.

Obama Wins Election

By ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Contrary to what you’re lead to believe, the election of a President is not decided on election night by news anchors with big screens contacting election headquarters.  In fact, President-Elect Obama just won the election January 8, 2009.  The vote was 365 to 173 in favor of Pres-Elect Obama over Sen. McCain.

We’re Not a Democracy

By ⋅ February 15, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

What’s always interesting to me, every election year, is how the general assumption that we’re a democracy permeates our understanding of how government functions such that we get a lot of strange ideas in our heads.  So, to help mitigate some of this confusion, I offer the following bits of information about our government in [...]

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