lunedì 17 marzo 2008

Popular Vote.

Electoral College

Electoral College

"A mechanism for the indirect election of public officials. For the purpose of electing the President and Vice President of the United States a 538-member Electoral College is created with each state having as many electors as it has representatives and senators in the national legislature, plus 3 for the District of Columbia. To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority in the Electoral College, currently 270. If no candidate gains an absolute majority the US House of Representatives makes the choice, with the delegation from each state having one vote.Most of these arrangements were devised in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as a compromise between those who proposed a direct popular election of the President and those who preferred to make him subject to election by the legislature."

venerdì 14 marzo 2008

The Electoral vote; they who understand how things work in the USA can really come to live in Italy.

Electoral vote. In the USA, people vote for the candidate they like. This is called popular vote. But, although one candidate got the majority of the people vote he needs another vote majority: the electoral vote. There seems to be a group of about 530 political representatives having the last word about it. But I need to read more about that....really complicated.
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mercoledì 5 marzo 2008

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.