Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2006/10
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Electoral College (was Library of Congress ticekts for the Dec. 7 concert)
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:51:13 -0400
All right, you have all convinced me. My talk on Dec. 7 was to
have been about the manuscript of the Gran Partitta. But I have
decided to change it to a talk on the history of the electoral
college. That is a subject about which I know very little, but
that never stopped me from talking about any subject in the past.
In fact, several years ago I was called at 11 am by the president
of the local Lion's Club. He invited me to come down at once and
speak at the luncheon because their regular speaker had to cancel
at the last moment.
I asked him for a subject to speak on. And he said, "It didn't
matter. Just entertain these local businessmen." And after a
moment's hesitation, he suggested I speak on sex.
I thought it was a splendid idea.
Dressing and getting ready to go, my wife asked me where I was
going. "To the Lion's Club, honey. I'm giving a talk there," I
said.
"What are you going to talk about?" she aksed.
I was embarassed so I told her a little lie, saying, "I'm going
to talk about sailing. You known, boats and stuff."
She had a bewildered look but figured if I was going talk on that
subject, be her guest.
The talk was a smash!! The men were yelling, standing, and
applauding when I got done talking about sex.
The next day my wife met the president of the Lion's club in the
local supermarket and he said, "Mrs. Leeson, we never heard a
talk that good before. You husband was a smash success."
My wife said, "I can't figure out why. He only did it twice.
The first time his hat blew off and the second time he got sick
to his stomach."
So as you can see, I can talk about the electoral college with no
preparation!!
Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Bell [mailto:bell@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 9:10 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Electoral College (was Library of Congress
ticekts for
the Dec. 7 concert)
But- Unless memory fails- the people are electing
the electoral college- who aren't actually legally
bound to vote for who the people chose......
Bill Hausmann wrote:
> At 03:39 PM 10/13/2006 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>> NO ONE can explain the American electoral college. It exists
in a
>> spirit world beyond the realm of human comprehension.
>
>
> I don't think it is all that complicated. Since the United
States is a
> representative republic, and not, as is so often presumed, a
democracy,
> our Constitution provides for the STATES to elect the
President, not the
> people. The vote of the states is weighted for population, so
some
> states have more electoral votes than others, but the very fact
of being
> a state also carries weight. The states can actually chose
almost any
> method to determine which way they will vote, but almost all
have
> determined that the best method is by a vote of the people in a
> winner-take-all format. This method has proven to be very
equitable,
> and it actually performs the desired function of the Framers to
reduce
> the tendency of a few large cities to control the electoral
process.
> Take a look at the famous Red-Blue map. Without the Electoral
College,
> the votes of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago areas
alone would
> decide elections and the rest of the country (the red part)
would have
> no say. That would be a VERY BAD THING! And that is
REGARDLESS of your
> opinion of the current or any other recent administration. The
> government must represent ALL the people.
>
> (Dismount soapbox.)
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
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