Can someone tell me why we cant vote without deligates? Shouldnt majority rule?

Question

Can someone tell me why we cant vote without deligates? Shouldnt majority rule?

Answer 1

Not all states have primary elections, so there cannot be "majority rule" in choosing candidates through direct election.

Another problem with your theory is what to do with the candidates who have dropped out. Edwards has 36 delegates; they'll go to the convention and vote for someone.

In the case of the Democratic Party, 40% of the delegates are not chosen in elections or caucuses. Instead they are party leaders (or hacks, if you prefer). This was done to ensure that there is no repeat of the 1972 disaster when George McGovern was the clear winner of the primary elections, but he lost in a landslide to Richard "Tricky d**k" Nixon.

Who ever said that the United States was a democracy?

Answer 2

If you are speaking of this latest round of primary elections, then you have to realize that the political parties involved made the rules. In the case of the Democrats, they set up a proportional distribution of delegates, rather than a "winner-take-all" system. This will ensure that none of the candidates currently remaining in contention will achieve the pledges of a majority of the delegates on the first ballot of the convention. The GOP followed this sort of proportionality as well.

When their respective conventions roll around, a lot of Americans are going to realize that "super delegates" are not those pledged to Clark Kent on the first ballot.

If you are referring to the Electoral College system, then I say keep it intact. I am not ready to see the two coastal population belts decide who should be the Chief Executive, leaving "fly over country" with no voice in the process.

If you are concerned about the powerlessness of your vote, then take notice that many of those larger states who would have the upper hand in a "majority rules" system don't have faithful elector laws at present which require that their electors vote the way the people did. In fact, 26 of the 50 states don't have such laws. Get faithful elector laws passed in those states. Don't use a piano for a paper weight.

Answer 3

its called the electoral college

Answer 4

Majority rule is a democratic principal, you live in a republic. It's set up the way it is to keep power in the hands of the self selected few and keep the rabble in it's place.

Answer 5

There is a fine line between majority rule and majority tyranny.

Study more US history and understand why our founding fathers set our republic up the way they did.

Answer 6

What if there is only a plurality, and not a majority?

Answer 7

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/02/d...

Read this it will answer your question.

If they don't have the Delegates they can be elected

I did not know that.More useless information in the day and life of me.....