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Originally posted by smooth
If every one of us voted against the president next election the electoral college could still elect him president. While it hasn't happened yet, that's exactly how our presidential electoral system was set up to ensure the masses wouldn't hold direct power over the national election. You can not remove nor install a president by your vote. You can express your will to the electoral college--but they are entitled to go against that will if they want.
The shift occurs in that the masses can directly elect members of Congress. But then all those members--directly responsible to voters--have to hammer out differences and reach consensus before acting. So even the direct will of the people is tempered by discussion among "learned" men (and now women).
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While theoritically possible Smooth, I don't ever see that happening.
What happens with the electoral college is that when a state is won the delegates preselected for that nominee go and vote for the man the state and they committed to. Kerry will have a slate of like 21 in Ohio ready and Bush will have his. But in going with your theory, if a state elected one person and their electoral college voted for someone else there would be such an outcry and civil cry that it would definately create severe problems.
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