The constitution doesn’t give specifics on this but does mandate the senate to advise and consent.
“… and [the President] shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court…”
National voter ID seems like a good idea.
I wont argue that media has become more opinion than news.
I laugh when people talk about the MSM being so liberal, when Fox is the most viewed news channel by a significant margin.
This is subjective, and i would point out that many of the those tweets are Trump complaining about and attacking his opponents. It goes round and round.
The article is an assertion absent any supporting fact.
Wrong again. Fox is the big dog of cable news which is a tiny fraction of viewers compared o those watching the “Big Three” for their news coverage.
Im not sure how it would work here, but it sounds better than our current system. Being rigged and corrupt, as you say happens in Australia, is a separate issue. Any voting system can be corrupted.
I completely agree!
Elections and Voter ID are state issues. The Fed’s can set minimum standards for federal elections but the rest is up to the states.
You are right. No federal voter ID i guess.
Can you give a source for that?
Everything sounds good in theory until its actually put into practiced.
I don’t know why you think so, it is pretty common knowledge the 90% of people working in the media are liberal. I can attest to that being true, I used to work in the industry aka ABC World News.
Fox news is also very liberal in terms of the people who run it and who also work there. I don’t watch any legacy News or TV, and I certainly stopped for the most watching anything Hollywood puts out as a way of actively boycotting them.
No it is not subjective its a fact! Also Ted Koppel disagrees with you.
Thanks for starting my day out with a good laugh.
I dont care what Ted Koppel thinks.
If you go back and read what i said, I was criticizing the media, but when you say the left whines more, that is a subjective statement. The left consists of more than just the news networks, so your bar graph, which, btw, has no source information, is hardly proof.
So nothing was stolen.
The dems would do exactly the same given the chance as thy tried every dirty trick in the book with Kavanaugh.
Guess the Kavanaugh debacle taught the right a lesson, never give the dems anything as they did with the 2 obama appointees.
“Cleverly usurped” may be a better term than stolen.
Is sad how the judicial branch has become more and more political. It undermines faith in the courts.
The judicial branch has always been a political tool the difference is the difference in partisan politics of today and the past.
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The Electoral College was created with the intent of giving all states, and therefore their citizens, an equal say in the nation’s matters, regardless of state size.
To change/eliminate the electoral college would require an amendment which the smaller states would surely veto as they would lose there say in a presidential election.
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The judicial branch has, historically, been viewed as non partisan
Im not sure what your point is here. I will restate, yet again, that the EC was created for a few reasons, one of which is what you said, the other reason is that the founders didn’t trust the majority of citizens to make a sound decision. It was a safeguard against corrupt, manipulative candidates, and against an ignorant population.
Again, what is your point? Have I said anything that would dispute this?
By the way, states can’t veto anything. They can bring a case to federal court, if thats what you mean.
No I don’t think he cares what you think either. So opinions are like what?
No it is not! Its a fact. Did you miss the part that I told you I used to work in the industry to know this as a fact? This is common knowledge. Put your money where your mouth is! If you did a poll here, I would wager overwhelmingly a majority here would agree with that statement.
Right. But if you include social media, pundits, and MSM then overwhelmingly this is supported. It doesn’t take a rocket science to figue that part out.
Lastly, how can you call yourself a moderate, when it is obvious you are bias in your views that leans progressively socialist?
I overestimated your ability to have an intelligent conversation. Just because you say something is fact does not make it so, regardless of where you worked.
“Common knowledge,” based on the sources you commonly get your information from, maybe.
And i really don’t care what a poll from this site says. This is mostly a conservative bubble from what I’ve read. The only reason I’m hear is because I thought there could be some constructive conversations about the messed up state of our politics. If I’m wrong about something, I will admit it and change my mind. Your last reply, along with many other of your posts, has only convinced me that you are not willing to have a conversation with anyone you disagree with.
And, I never called myself a moderate, those are your words. I said i don’t fit into either party, which is true.