opsitnickslaw.wordpress.com
December 2016 – Opsitnick & Associates, Attorneys at Law
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Opsitnick and Associates, Attorneys at Law. Our legal blog with helpful information for you. Please visit our website for more information. If Voting Made Any Difference. If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it. This quote is attributed to Mark Twain. While I don’t agree, let’s consider that in November’s presidential election. Hillary Clinton received over 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump, however, Trump won the election. The fourth and fifth times the popular vote winner did n...
pedantspot.blogspot.com
Provisionally Titled: C'est la vie, you never can tell what will motivate me to post
http://pedantspot.blogspot.com/2009/06/cest-la-vie-you-never-can-tell-what.html
Formerly an NYU Law student's, then a second-year law firm associate's, now just my attempts at coherence. Guaranteed pedantry or your complete lack of money back. C'est la vie, you never can tell what will motivate me to post. Henry Farrell writes about. Unrelatedly, though not surprisingly if you've read this site, I'm a single issue anti-Bloomberg voter for term limit extension reasons. It'd be almost impossible for Thompson to lose my vote or Bloomberg to gain it. Edge of the American West.
chrisweigant.com
ChrisWeigant.com » How Many More Wars?
http://www.chrisweigant.com/2015/05/20/how-many-more-wars
Friday Talking Points [404] — As The Turd Tornado Turns…. Another Brick In The Big Blue Wall. Trump Just Can’t Help Himself. Friday Talking Points [403] — GOP Anti-Trump Rants. DEA Ignores Reality In The War On Weed. Will Hillary Face Bill’s Mandate Problem? Electoral Math — The Best Way To Track The Race. The Bill of Rights. Chris' Huffington Post Archive. Democratic Underground: “Top 10 Conservative Idiots”. American Civil Liberties Union. National Initiative For Democracy. How Many More Wars? Would ov...
redgael.wordpress.com
Welcome to Red Gael's Blog | Page 2
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Welcome to Red Gael’s Blog. October 16, 2010. 8212; redgael @ 9:32 pm. Note: a number of questions and ponderings follow so read at your own risk. 8220;We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.” C. A. Hall [ is it really that straightforward? And from what source do our thoughts first spring if not from our own character? Is there a difference between the two?
democracybythepeople.blogspot.com
Democracy by the People: SHOULD THE U.S. DO AWAY WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
http://democracybythepeople.blogspot.com/2008/11/should-us-do-away-with-electoral.html
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." - Thomas Jefferson. THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN"S SOULS".AGAIN. TIME FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY? INITIATIVE and REFERENDUM STATE BY STATE (Click on State):. Should ...
democracybythepeople.blogspot.com
Democracy by the People: NPV MOVEMENT GAINING GROUND
http://democracybythepeople.blogspot.com/2008/01/npv-movement-gaining-ground.html
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." - Thomas Jefferson. THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN"S SOULS".AGAIN. TIME FOR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY? INITIATIVE and REFERENDUM STATE BY STATE (Click on State):. The Pat...
amgov.cnlawrence.com
Participation, Campaigns and Elections
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Participation, Campaigns, and Elections. Middle Georgia State University. POLS 1101: American Government. Voting rates are higher among those with higher socioeconomic status. Other factors affecting likelihood of voting, aside from SES:. Legal Factors Depressing Turnout. Potential voters must register. In advance in most states. National Voter Registration Act ( Motor Voter ). Laws may lower turnout. Other Factors Reducing Turnout. Regstration and voting is optional. Elections normally held on workdays.
terryliittschwager.com
Electoral College
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As I write this, we're one week to the 2012 election. There's speculation that Obama may win in the electoral college but Romney will win the popular vote. If that happens, there'll be a cry to abolish the Electoral College. The problem is that all except two of the states use the winner-take-all method of awarding electors. Maine and Nebraska award electors in approximate proportion to the votes received by the inidividual Presidential tickets. Or at least reddish). 747 and 767 WEIGHT and BALANCE.
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