2007-03-23 00:40:19 · 12 answers · asked by melbournewooferblue 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think the biggest failure is the complete abrogation of responsibility by local authorities in publicizing the arrangements for the election. I immigrated from the UK five years ago. Everyone gets a recognizable poll card with details of their voting place on it. That does not happen everywhere in the USA and, when it does, it is often sporadic. In my locality numerous people were unable to vote because their polling place had been changed and they were never notified. This situation is clearly unacceptable and causes politicla activists to be disporportionately represented at the polls.
In short, the biggest threat to American democracy is not in negative campaigning but the manner in which we run our elections.
2007-03-23 00:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by skip 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The biggest problem is the so called "moderate" voter. This group consists of people who have no core beliefs to guide them or pay no attention until just before an election or are those odd beings that just want to be on the most popular side. They stick their fingers up to see which way the wind is blowing and follow along.
As a staunch conservative (and I believe my liberal oponents would agree) I would rather be beaten by opponents who know exactly what they are voting for than defeated by a bunch of loosers who were fooled by campaign rhetoric.
The sadest sound to me is some lilly livered moderate lamenting that he didn't realise that the person he was voiting for was _____. It is your business to know!
The Electoral College is an ingenius solution to the address the biggest fear of the founding fathers. That was the tyrany of the majority. They wanted to make absoultly sure that the states were being fairly represented. In the Electoral College, the states with the largest populations get the most electoral votes. If there were no electoral college the few most populist states would decide the election for everyone else.
Al Gore was running for electoral votes. He did not get enough to win. He was not running for popular votes. The fact that he got more popular votes is interesting but not really very important. It is like saying that in a baseball game, team "G" got more hits but team "W" got more runs.
Remember the door swings both ways. The Electoral College gave us JFK. In that election, Nixon got the most popular votes.
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2007-03-23 08:19:18 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Americans
2007-03-23 08:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, i think that a group of people that are supposedly keeping what's best for the people in mind who are given power to decide exactly who is running the country could mean disaster. Granted, the electoral college was started to ensure that the wrong people don't ascend to the Presidency, but what if they are paid off to elect someone. What if they, just as the government today, don't have the best interests of the people at the center of their goals. The electoral college was started for all the right reasons, but it can be used for all the wrong, and I fear that, not only has it already happened, but it will happen again. However, maybe this time the ramifications will be much greater and detrimental to the people of this nation. Too much power resting in the hands of only a small percentage of the population.
2007-03-23 07:49:36 · answer #4 · answered by Adam S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Electoral College and the Deibold voting machines. Al Gore won the popular vote by over 500,000 votes in 2000, and the Supreme Court appointed George Bush as President. The Deibold machines caused problems in 3 States for sure that they will admit to. Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Our last election for Congress allowed the removal of the corrupt Republicans in the States I mentioned prior, and they revamped the Diebold Voting machines to stop voter fraud.
2007-03-23 07:48:13 · answer #5 · answered by leonard bruce 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The electoral college and the fact that voting is on a Tuesday in November. Both undermine the popular vote.
2007-03-23 07:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The electoral college is the main problem. Whats the point of going out and voting knowing that the state Representative in your district can just cast your states vote however he pleases regardless of how the majority voted.
That and the zombies that keep climbing out of the graves to cast their votes.
2007-03-23 07:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by krm2020 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The electoral college votes and selects who the president will be by popular choice. It sucks.
2007-03-23 07:53:58 · answer #8 · answered by ShadowCat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Democrats whining
the electoral college prevents on part of this huge country from controlling another.
2007-03-23 08:00:44 · answer #9 · answered by FOA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that voter apathy is probably the biggest problem, when you only get a 30% turn out for a presidential election, you just don't get a proper decision on who should run the business of the country.
2007-03-23 07:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋