Politics

Obama's stance is doing what his positions tells him to do, play politics. I think he would support it if it gained enough momentum. And the scary part is it just might. Politicians may know economics, and probally most of them do but they want to win votes and to win votes means catering to the voters vunerablilty. And that is what Obamas is doing, and he is learning from history, Rommeny said he would get Michagans jobs back, which was a full face lie, and McCain said they jobs are coming back the truth and McCain got his ass handed to him there.

Also I saw this and thought some people might want to read it

Q. "Why can't the president be elected by popular vote? Why is the Electoral College still considered constitutional when it clearly undermines what a democracy stands for?"

The Electoral College is “considered constitutional” because it is constitutional.
The Constitution itself establishes the system of electors that we use. See Article II, section 1, Clause 2, of the Constitution: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress….”

Changing this system would require an amendment to the Constitution. It takes the agreement of three-quarters of the states to do that.

And the states with smaller populations (Vermont, Wyoming, South Dakota, etc.) are unlikely to agree to such an amendment, since the system established by the Constitution gives them a bigger voice in electing a president than they’d have if election through a popular vote were used.

-Zachary

ps Tim I will write about my one word soon