Paper against Bush

[Mantis421]

Now there's something I don't get! Why doesn't the people elect the president? America keeps shoving it's democracy up everybody else's ass and yet there's nothing more democratic than the people electing it's own president which is something that doesn't happen in America! That's how we end up with situations in which a certain candidate gets most of the votes but it's the other one that wins. That's not in accordance to what the people chooses and as far as I'm concerned it's not democratic.

when the USA was founded and the US constitution was wrote in 1776 the original leaders did not 100% trust the people could pick the right canditate so they created the electoral college which is comprised of people who the people vote for. But the US people don't get to vote for the president directly. I checked the US government archive. Their has been 5 US elections where the person the people picked did not become president because the delagates picked the other or the House or Congress picked because they didn't agree with who the people picked