The framers believed, as Alexander Hamilton put it, that “the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the [president].” But no nation had ever tried that idea before. So the framers created a safety valve on the people’s choice.
Properly understood, the electors can serve an important function. What if the people elect a Manchurian candidate? Or a child rapist? What if evidence of massive fraud pervades a close election? It is a useful thing to have a body confirm the results of a democratic election — so long as that body exercises its power reflectively and conservatively.
We are all citizens equally. Our votes should count equally. And since nothing in our Constitution compels a decision otherwise, the electors should respect the equal vote by the people by ratifying it on Dec. 19.
Even Donald Trump has called the Electoral College a "total sham".
Is it time for the Electoral College to reflect the popular vote?
Give us a hint as to what it is, and why should care about it. Preferably with no unexpanded acronyms.
Not even as shiny as NetBEUI. LANtastic, if it matters. Wireshark barely even recognizes the custom EthernetII protocol.
And although TCP/IP is older, it s fairly well supported today.
If you don't call it HP-IB, it ain't that old...
Do we work together?
I work with a system that uses NetBIOS networking on DOS. And not that fancy NetBIOS over TCP/IP, either.
I saw a documentary about this decades ago. Or maybe it was a Cheech and Chong movie, it's hard to tell...
Agreed.
Although, Dweezil's preference (circa 2006) "is to use the Euphonix R-1 hard-disk recording system and then bump that over to Nuendo." (http://emusician.com/tutorials/emusic_frankly_dweezil/index3.html), FWIW...
The tweezers in question are encrusted with "Zircon", and not Zirconium, as alleged.
1. Attack the US.
2. ???
3. Profit!
"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"