One Post's Electoral College
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but "winning" 1+million votes down from the loser is NOT democracy.
From Merriam-Webster:
Full Definition of democracy
plural
democracies
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
Hmmm. Rule of the majority. How confusing this presidential election has become. It has a very warped sense of one person, one vote and does not meet the definition of "democracy".
If we had a true democracy, we would vote on every law and politician by popular vote. And California and New York would dictate to the rest of the country what to do. You can keep true democracy.
If we had a true democracy, we would vote on every law and politician by popular vote. And California and New York would dictate to the rest of the country what to do. You can keep true democracy.
No doubt if the shoe was on the other foot I wouldn't be too happy winning the popular vote and still losing an election but I see the genius of the founders of this country and what they were trying to do in setting the country to be a republic and not a true democracy.Even if I were on the losing side of the issue I would not want to change our form of government.
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If we had a true democracy, we would vote on every law and politician by popular vote. And California and New York would dictate to the rest of the country what to do. You can keep true democracy.
No doubt if the shoe was on the other foot I wouldn't be too happy winning the popular vote and still losing an election but I see the genius of the founders of this country and what they were trying to do in setting the country to be a republic and not a true democracy.Even if I were on the losing side of the issue I would not want to change our form of government.
No doubt if the shoe was on the other foot I wouldn't be too happy winning the popular vote and still losing an election but I see the genius of the founders of this country and what they were trying to do in setting the country to be a republic and not a true democracy.Even if I were on the losing side of the issue I would not want to change our form of government.
Presiden-elect Trump disagrees, btw.
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No doubt if the shoe was on the other foot I wouldn't be too happy winning the popular vote and still losing an election but I see the genius of the founders of this country and what they were trying to do in setting the country to be a republic and not a true democracy.Even if I were on the losing side of the issue I would not want to change our form of government.
Presiden-elect Trump disagrees, btw.
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Well once you get above 1172 at OSU the math is more specialized. Technically it's math topics for engineers but it's really just specialized calculus 3.
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Yeah I don't doubt. For me in my final year I took the 'interesting' courses - abstract theoretical stuff - and some 'useful' courses, like decision maths, financial principles etc. whereas the two years leading up to it had been more general, things like real/complex variable theory, symmetry and groups, linear algebra, blah-de-blah.
Then masters was some finance stuff, so pretty trival maths, but also stochastic calculus, more advanced stats (I hate stats), numerical methods for estimating a solution to an insoluble SDE etc. that kind of thing.
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To be fair I think he just said he liked it.
Oh, The Fappening. That crazy internet
Jennifer Lawrence's nudes bored me. As an actress I'd hoped she'd have more imagination.
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Yeah I don't doubt. For me in my final year I took the 'interesting' courses - abstract theoretical stuff - and some 'useful' courses, like decision maths, financial principles etc. whereas the two years leading up to it had been more general, things like real/complex variable theory, symmetry and groups, linear algebra, blah-de-blah.
Then masters was some finance stuff, so pretty trival maths, but also stochastic calculus, more advanced stats (I hate stats), numerical methods for estimating a solution to an insoluble SDE etc. that kind of thing.
Yeah I don't doubt. For me in my final year I took the 'interesting' courses - abstract theoretical stuff - and some 'useful' courses, like decision maths, financial principles etc. whereas the two years leading up to it had been more general, things like real/complex variable theory, symmetry and groups, linear algebra, blah-de-blah.
Then masters was some finance stuff, so pretty trival maths, but also stochastic calculus, more advanced stats (I hate stats), numerical methods for estimating a solution to an insoluble SDE etc. that kind of thing.
Took Honors Theoretical Differential Equations as a freshman. Impressive sounding course. Wouldn't recommend it haha.
Liner/Matrix Algebra was much more useful. Though the end of the class started to get pretty Theoretical and more difficult.
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Oh, and thus has been my experience with the calc numbers
Calc 1 (equivalent of AP Calc AB) - Beginning calc stuff. Deferentiating
Calc 2 (equivalent of AP Calc BC) - Adds in Integrals and other stuff. Maybe series? Don't remember. Weed out course for engineering at University
Calc 3 - Multi Variable
Calc 4 - Diffy Q's
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Yeah I don't doubt. For me in my final year I took the 'interesting' courses - abstract theoretical stuff - and some 'useful' courses, like decision maths, financial principles etc. whereas the two years leading up to it had been more general, things like real/complex variable theory, symmetry and groups, linear algebra, blah-de-blah.
Then masters was some finance stuff, so pretty trival maths, but also stochastic calculus, more advanced stats (I hate stats), numerical methods for estimating a solution to an insoluble SDE etc. that kind of thing.
Yeah I don't doubt. For me in my final year I took the 'interesting' courses - abstract theoretical stuff - and some 'useful' courses, like decision maths, financial principles etc. whereas the two years leading up to it had been more general, things like real/complex variable theory, symmetry and groups, linear algebra, blah-de-blah.
Then masters was some finance stuff, so pretty trival maths, but also stochastic calculus, more advanced stats (I hate stats), numerical methods for estimating a solution to an insoluble SDE etc. that kind of thing.
she is impressed
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So we should vote based on land mass?
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So we should vote based on land mass?
So we should vote based on land mass?
So we should keep our electoral college (which we will anyway...It's not going anywhere)
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Look, in order to abolish the electoral college 38 states would have to agree with that. Of those 38 states 33 or more would instantly become irrelevant in terms of say that they had. And that, as they say, is that.
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I don't want to debate whether or not something could happen, but whether it should. "It could never change" isn't an argument for th EC
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It should not happen. Pure Democracy devolves into mob rule pretty quickly.
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Who said that's the only other option?
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I don't remember any whining about the electoral college during obaMao's Reign of Terror....
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