Hey kids - were you disappointed to find out that your individual vote did not *really* count?

Question

Yeah - when I was in High School they never taught us about "the electoral college".

It was like a blast in the face to find out that almost everything I learned about our "fair democracy" in school is a bunch of propaganda.

How did you feel when you learned this?

And have you ever seen the way your voting district is Gerrymandered to divide all the minorities and put them in small pockets of Republican strongholds?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

jj raider - please tell me you went to a public school....

Kathleen... thank you, that is exactly what I find so disappointing... the votes are calculated by land mass more than they are by population....

McKenzie... why all the sudden hostility?
Of course I know what these things are and have studied them...
Why would you be so mad that I want to encourage others to do the same?

Answer 1

I went to public school and learned about the electoral college in sixth grade, during the 1988 elections. However it wasn't until the 2000 elections that I learned just how little my vote counted.

Answer 2

the way its meant to artwork is the electoral vote elects the president and the individuals by standard vote sways the electoral college to vote the type you do. yet then actuality gadgets in and the electoral college isn't ruled by everyone. they're unfastened to vote even although they selected. there has been elections the place the classic vote and the electoral vote are distinctive. So no your vote would desire to care much less to the electors in the none ruled vote casting scale. Democracy works in basic terms while the individuals have self assurance in the assumption of it. Now on the different hand, your vote does anticipate the state representatives and the congressmen, and all the community government equipment, which at the instant are not elected by the electoral college. There should not be an electoral college, that would desire to take the capacity from the individuals. In our historic previous the electoral college has in basic terms harm our united states. Politics is elementary to understand. The greater funds you have the greater of of undertaking you will desire to purchase your way into or out of something. believe me, all of us want to have self assurance we make a distinction yet each and every so often actuality says distinctive. yet its nevertheless not a reason to provide up and not vote.

Answer 3

I am extremely sorry that your high school never taught you about the electoral college. Where I went to high school you had to pass the U.S. Constitution test before graduating from high school. Perhaps now that you have graduated, you may want to get involved in the curriculum that is offered at your school district.

Also, I am surprised that you were never taught that we are a Republic - so many people forget that. In a democracy majority rules. In a Republic majority rules but must pass the Constitution test first. People are forgetting that we are a Republic and interchange the word democracy without thinking.

I pledge allegience to the flag

Answer 4

Our forefathers, in their infinate wisdom, set up the system for the Electoral Colleges. Our votes do count, and the count goes to the Electoral Colleges, and they speak for WE THE PEOPLE. Too many people do not exercise their right to vote when they learn of the electoral college. OUR VOTE MATTERS, AND OUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
May God bless you.
P.S. The Electoral College was set in place because some states are much larger then others, and no single state should have an advantage over another.

Answer 5

You get a liberal lie about our government and then blame Republicans for it?

That's a serious case of political bigotry.

My parents gave me the reasons for why we don't have a straight democracy.

No democracy has ever survived the discovery by it's people that they can vote themselves anything they want out of the treasury.

You totally distrust Republicans. Would YOU give a country that might have a Republican majority an equal vote with you?

Our government is the way it to allow for balance. We don't approve of mob rule no matter what the teachers mistakenly taught you.

As a teacher I'm more of a mind to think you weren't paying attention. Might still not be paying attention. Go back and look up the history of the electoral college. Look at the efforts of BOTH sides to divide up districts instead of showing only one side.

No, I'm not a republican, I'm a democrat, but I very much dislike presenting only one side in such a bigoted way.

The world's not that simple.

Answer 6

Hello:

The electoral college only works on the President and Vice President election. Not local and to the national level. Here in Washington, D.C. we do not even have a voting representative and not even a senator. Our license plate states: "Taxation without Representation".

This is my help from Washington, D.C. USA.

Answer 7

Um, I think you need to do a little more research...The representatives who are sent to vote in the Electoral College are determined based on the popular vote in the electoral districts. Therefore individual votes DO count...Get a clue.

Answer 8

I'm sorry to learn the electoral college was never taught to you in High School---
I learned about it in third grade-- (seriously)

Answer 9

It's called local and state elections. The last Presidential election did show that the very last absentee ballot can change the nation.