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obsessions: family, soccer, beer, biking

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@ryxcommar Hi, do you play music? Your on the list…

Apparently I’m 63

[Allen Mashburn @RealMashburn4NC]

The Electoral College was basically a compromise. The Founders wanted the president chosen with the people’s support, but they didn’t want a straight national popular vote or to just hand the decision to Congress.

At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, they talked for months about how to pick a president. A direct popular vote worried them. Bigger states would almost always win. A lot of voters wouldn’t really know candidates from other parts of the country. And someone who was just good at stirring people up in one area could end up winning.

Letting Congress pick the president worried them even more. The president would end up depending on Congress, which goes against the idea of keeping the branches separate. It also opened the door to backroom deals, corruption, or other countries trying to influence the choice.

So they settled on the Electoral College. Each state gets electors equal to its number of House seats plus its two senators. Those electors cast the actual votes for president. You need a majority to win. If no one gets it, the House decides, and each state gets one vote. The states get to decide how they pick their electors.

This setup treated the country as a union of states instead of one giant population. It gave smaller states more of a voice, kept the president from being controlled by Congress, and still let the people’s choice matter.

Alexander Hamilton explained it in Federalist 68. He said the people’s voice still counts because they choose the electors. The electors would be people who could actually study the candidates and make a careful choice. Meeting in their own states (instead of all in one place) would make it harder for chaos, bribery, or foreign influence to take over. And the president would still depend on the people, not Congress, to stay in office.

Hamilton also pointed out that being good at “the little arts of popularity” might get someone ahead in one state, but it would take real ability and character to win the confidence of the whole country. He thought the system made it very likely only someone highly qualified would end up as president.

That’s the idea they were going for: a capable president with support across the country, protection for smaller states, and an executive that stayed independent. Things changed later with political parties and the winner-take-all system most states use now, but the basic structure is still what the Constitution set up.

The Electoral College must be protected at all costs— it’s common sense in a country filled with lunatics.

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@MickNarsh11 I went to Laker parades when I lived in LA, the White Sox parade when I was in Chicago… but, I skipped the Cubs parade 😉

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@SamKuffelWx I will end up watching this 1,000 times in my life

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@itshshekhar I just shifted my entire job to Teams, PowerPoint and Excel. More efficient because I couldnt check Outlook. As busy as a normal day.

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@OhDannyboy1972 @SelfUntangled He gave her the phone… the end

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@shirtsthtgohard Trying it out 😉

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@10_Markos_ Many years ago my HS team played against Tony Smith’s team at Tosa East. We won the tip, they packed it in since they had Tony Smith and a 6’8 center. We ran the weave for probably 5 minutes, which was our best chance to keep the game close. 😂. We got clobbered in the end.

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@DariusJButler @X Every time I open X

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@HollywoodInToto Hmm, maybe I’ll try to watch. Conceptually I like it and I’m curious what I’ll think. I frequently disagree with critics, due to differing life experiences.

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@yaelbt People are seriously mental

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@mhigginsjr @EdmundFitzAt50 @MaxROIFarmer Will Listen now, thank you!

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@katie_campione This makes me think of the best romance I ever read… it was by a man. Afterwards I was shocked and wondered why I liked it. I realized the male character acted like a man.

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@JAGsportsstuff @barryknapp Truthfully, one doesn’t understand how bad college soccer can be until they are in it.

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@sjdedic Many, many years ago the plan to get SBA loans for small businesses was to use the wife of the guy running the business to make it a woman run business

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@mark_radigan @FeelThePain724 That’s wrong. 9.9 scholarships available for the whole team. $165 in NIL this year 😂.

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@jeffbatesx The brewers have been shockingly lucky on their bets and injuries

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@thebillmitchell @chris_awk I twist my ankle in fall… now I may miss 1/2 the season because it’s so compact… but my back up is playing well enough and I don’t have time to win my spot back because we don’t have full weeks of practice…which means i race to come back and get hurt again

Pros and cons

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@thewonkypenguin @CTDude3 It’s cheaper to buy raw fruits and vegetables, but it also creates work to prepare

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@BMBarrio The current season is much worse for the overworked student athlete. You care more about admins than students, unfortunately