How voting a President/Vice President in actually works...

[Aegon_Targaryen]

The people of the United States elect a president every four years, but not directly. Here's how it works.

1. In November of a presidential election year, each state holds an election for president in which all eligible citizens may vote. Citizens vote for a "ticket" of candidates that includes a candidate for president and a candidate for vice president.
2. The outcome of the vote in each state determines a slate of electors who then, in turn, make the actual choice of president and vice president. Each state has as many electors as it has senators and members of the House of Representatives, for a total of 538. (The District of Columbia gets three electors even though it has no representation in Congress.)
3. In December, the electors meet in their respective state capitols to cast their ballots for president and vice president. States may or may not require their electors to vote with the popular majority, and they may or may not give all of their electors to the winner of the statewide popular vote. (See "A Work in Progress," below.)
4. These ballots are opened, counted, and certified by a joint session of Congress in January.
5. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes or if the top two candidates are tied, the House of Representatives selects a president from among the five candidates with the most votes. Each state's delegation has a single vote. The Senate selects a vice president by the same process. (This hasn't happened since 1876, but it almost happened in 2000.)

What does this mean in practice? It means, as everyone learned or was reminded in 2000, that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide does not necessarily become president. There is no national election for president, only separate state elections. For a candidate to become president, he or she must win enough state elections to garner a majority of electoral votes. presidential campaigns, therefore, focus on winning states, not on winning a national majority.

 

[Lone Clone]

The people of the United States elect a president every four years, but not directly. Here's how it works.

1. In November of a presidential election year, each state holds an election for president in which all eligible citizens may vote. Citizens vote for a "ticket" of candidates that includes a candidate for president and a candidate for vice president.
2. The outcome of the vote in each state determines a slate of electors who then, in turn, make the actual choice of president and vice president. Each state has as many electors as it has senators and members of the House of Representatives, for a total of 538. (The District of Columbia gets three electors even though it has no representation in Congress.)
3. In December, the electors meet in their respective state capitols to cast their ballots for president and vice president. States may or may not require their electors to vote with the popular majority, and they may or may not give all of their electors to the winner of the statewide popular vote. (See "A Work in Progress," below.)
4. These ballots are opened, counted, and certified by a joint session of Congress in January.
5. If no candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes or if the top two candidates are tied, the House of Representatives selects a president from among the five candidates with the most votes. Each state's delegation has a single vote. The Senate selects a vice president by the same process. (This hasn't happened since 1876, but it almost happened in 2000.)

What does this mean in practice? It means, as everyone learned or was reminded in 2000, that the candidate who receives the most votes nationwide does not necessarily become president. There is no national election for president, only separate state elections. For a candidate to become president, he or she must win enough state elections to garner a majority of electoral votes. presidential campaigns, therefore, focus on winning states, not on winning a national majority.

Uh.....yeah? And the point of this review of fifth grade civics is..........?

 

[Aegon_Targaryen]

Uh.....yeah? And the point of this review of fifth grade civics is..........?

Have you ever participated in an actual election cycle? Yes or no.

 

[Huey Grey]

Have you ever participated in an actual election cycle? Yes or no.

No offense, but this is dumb.

 

[Aegon_Targaryen]

No offense, but this is dumb.

Have you ever participated in an election cycle, have you ever gotten at least to delegate status?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Have you ever participated in an election cycle, have you ever gotten at least to delegate status?

Ah, so you are defining "participated in an election cycle" differently than the rest of us.

Feel free to discipline him, Lone Clone (not that you need my permission, but you could probably use more fun in your life).

 

[Huey Grey]

Have you ever participated in an election cycle, have you ever gotten at least to delegate status?

Jesus, I knew you were going to go down this route.

 

[Lone Clone]

Have you ever participated in an actual election cycle? Yes or no.

What do you mean? Hell, voting is participating in an actual election cycle. So is being elected. I assume you're talking about something in between those two points, but God knows what.

 

[Lone Clone]

Ah, so you are defining "participated in an election cycle" differently than the rest of us.

Feel free to discipline him, Lone Clone (not that you need my permission, but you could probably use more fun in your life).

Ah, so you are defining "participated in an election cycle" differently than the rest of us.

Feel free to discipline him, Lone Clone (not that you need my permission, but you could probably use more fun in your life).

I don't think asking somebody to define his terms is disciplining him, but your mileage may vary.

Incidentally, did you ever answer my question about whey you're using Charlie Manson's photo? If you did, I missed it.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I don't think asking somebody to define his terms is disciplining him, but your mileage may vary.

Incidentally, did you ever answer my question about whey you're using Charlie Manson's photo? If you did, I missed it.

Yes, I've answered that and similar questions several times, but I forget which threads. That's an actual picture of me, from a camping trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains a few decades ago.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I don't think asking somebody to define his terms is disciplining him, but your mileage may vary.

And yet you did discipline him in your previous comment.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

Ah, so you are defining "participated in an election cycle" differently than the rest of us.

Feel free to discipline him, Lone Clone (not that you need my permission, but you could probably use more fun in your life).

Lone Clone doesn't know shit. If he did he would get where I'm going with this. But he's a Con so he went towards guys like Bush, Romney, etc.
What i'm referring to is the BS that goes on behind the scenes, and how in the end your vote doesn't mean f'n thing.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

Yes, I've answered that and similar questions several times, but I forget which threads. That's an actual picture of me, from a camping trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains a few decades ago.

Kind of a hippy then. You look tougher than your actions lead me to believe. You seem to think that people should just go with the flow as disrupting the already disrupted flow is good enough.

When the world goes apocalyptic I can't see you surviving it for very long.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

Jesus, I knew you were going to go down this route.

So you know how pointless it is, unless you have the numbers to throw off the parties planted personel amongst the voting groups then?

 

[ANYCHawk]

Lone Clone doesn't know shit. If he did he would get where I'm going with this. But he's a Con so he went towards guys like Bush, Romney, etc.
What i'm referring to is the BS that goes on behind the scenes, and how in the end your vote doesn't mean f'n thing.

checks op's name......

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Kind of a hippy then. You look tougher than your actions lead me to believe. You seem to think that people should just go with the flow as disrupting the already disrupted flow is good enough.

When the world goes apocalyptic I can't see you surviving it for very long.

I'm a very well-armed liberal.

 

[Lone Clone]

Yes, I've answered that and similar questions several times, but I forget which threads. That's an actual picture of me, from a camping trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains a few decades ago.

You're Charlie Manson?

 

[Lone Clone]

Lone Clone doesn't know shit. If he did he would get where I'm going with this. But he's a Con so he went towards guys like Bush, Romney, etc.
What i'm referring to is the BS that goes on behind the scenes, and how in the end your vote doesn't mean f'n thing.

I want to fix that. I want you to tell me shit. I asked you to tell me shit. Or I asked somebody to tell me shit. It looks like some names are getting jacked around here or something.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

I want to fix that. I want you to tell me shit. I asked you to tell me shit. Or I asked somebody to tell me shit. It looks like some names are getting jacked around here or something.

I am the Aegon and the Prime

 

[HawktimusPrime]

I'm a very well-armed liberal.

I like your ability to take my e punches, we can be friends again. Forever and ever.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

You're Charlie Manson?

According to the TV show, he got all the babes he wanted and was a good musician.

If not for that pesky sociopathy thing, I could do worse.

 

[Chewback]

According to the TV show, he got all the babes he wanted and was a good musician.

If not for that pesky sociopathy thing, I could do worse.

The question is, how many people you killed?

 

[naturalmwa]

I am the Aegon and the Prime

Why? What have I missed? Are you really in the industry?

This is why you can't trust libertarians.

 

[HawktimusPrime]

Why? What have I missed? Are you really in the industry?

This is why you can't trust libertarians.

You've missed much my friend.

 

[naturalmwa]

So many performance artists around here. Herman Cain would be proud.