Randy Rainbow is going on the road, stumping for votes in the 2024 election! His concert tour begins in October, and the schedule is at the YouTube page for this video. He'll no doubt do better in the election than Pat Paulsen ever did.
Randy Rainbow is going on the road, stumping for votes in the 2024 election! His concert tour begins in October, and the schedule is at the YouTube page for this video. He'll no doubt do better in the election than Pat Paulsen ever did.
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You know that Pat Paulsen has been dead for a number of years, right?
Yes, I would have been very surprised if he wasn't. RR might get more votes than Paulsen ever did.
I guess I need to make that more clear.
The thing is, Trumpers are going to vote for Trump, even if he's been convicted and sent to prison. This means that if anyone actually does vote for a third-party candidate it's likely going to be coming from the undecided or moderately-Democratic-leaning electorate, thus splitting the vote and under the ridiculous rules of 'winner takes all' for the Electoral College votes, someone like Trump or DeSantis wins with less than 40% of the popular vote.
So let Randy keep taking his accurately-aimed potshots at Trump, DeSantis, Rudy Giuliani, and the rest of the GQP in general ... but keep a cork on any talk about Rainbow for President.
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Bicycle Bill - and the democrats will vote for Biden even with his dementia and baggage.
The Electoral College is great--it allows the states to elect the President, and small states don't get left behind. If not for the EC, then California, New York, and one other state would elect the President--and the people in the other 47 states can go pound sand.
My problem is with the "winner take all" format. If candidate 'A' wins, oh, California by a margin of 51% to 49%, they get all 55 of the electoral votes – and the almost half of the voters who *DIDN'T* vote for candidate 'A' have no voice or input in the matter.
Two hundred years ago, when it took a letter anywhere from two weeks (Pony Express) to a year (by ship around South America) to get somewhere, this may have been the way to do it — and we were dealing with a far smaller amount of people and land to ... but with the technology we've got today, there is no conceivable reason that we can't count individual votes in every precinct in every state and territory to arrive at a single all-encompassing tally. And once we've reached that tally, the person with the highest number, not the most electoral votes, is declared the winner.
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