“Cada partido y cada institución relevante tenía su propia prensa. La información, para esa
prensa, no era la búsqueda de la verdad, sino ganar espacio y vencer a su enemigo particular”.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Sin lugar a dudas, el acontecimiento de la semana fue el debate entre Kamala Harris y Donald Trump, que concitó justificadamente la atención masiva en todos los países, toda vez que dentro de sólo 51 días se dirimirá quién gobernará la primera potencia global y, con ello, diseñará la geopolítica mundial de los próximos cuatro años. Estuvieron seguramente muy atentos los gobiernos de Taiwan y Filipinas, de Israel e Irán, de Ucrania y Rusia, de Venezuela y Cuba, de China y de Corea del Norte, la OTAN, la Comunidad Europea, la ONU y los hutíes que controlan la entrada al Mar Rojo, o sea, aquéllos inmersos en conflictos bélicos o políticos de alta o baja intensidad.
TrumpHarris
Seguramente por el desconcierto que causó en la campaña republicana el cambio de contendiente tras la renuncia de Joe Biden a buscar la reelección, en general la prensa norteamericana adjudicó a la actual Vicepresidente la victoria, pero señalando el alto nivel de desconocimiento que aún la afecta, y por ello puso en duda que el evento haya servido para marcar un quiebre en una carrera que está prácticamente empatada, con una sociedad que sufre una virulenta grieta, similar a la de tantos otros países, como Brasil, España y, por supuesto, nuestra Argentina.
En los Estados Unidos, donde el voto no es obligatorio y hay que anotarse previamente para ejercer ese derecho, los ciudadanos de cada Estado eligen representantes al Colegio Electoral. Hay sólo dos partidos políticos importantes (Republicano y Demócrata) y el que gana en un Estado, se lleva todos los delegados atribuidos al mismo; la cantidad que corresponde a cada uno de ellos no está vinculada a su población o a su PBI.
Hillary ClintonBiden
Ese Colegio está integrado por 435 representantes estaduales más 3 por la capital, Washington DC, y 100 senadores; o sea, suma 538 delegados y, para hacerse con la Presidencia del país, un candidato debe reunir un mínimo de 270 voluntades. En caso de empate, la Cámara de Representantes (Diputados) elegirá al Presidente y el Senado al Vicepresidente. Como ya dije, creo que se repetirá este 4 de noviembre el resultado de 2016, cuando Hillary Clinton obtuvo casi tres millones de votos más que Trump pero éste mayor cantidad de delegados electorales y ganó la Presidencia.
El otro episodio relevante fue el asilo político que concedió , a tono con el generalizado respaldo de la Comunidad Europea, el Congreso español –no el gobierno de Pedro Sánchez- a Edmundo González Urrutia, a quien reconoce como Presidente electo de Venezuela, a pesar del masivo fraude que perpetró el tirano Nicolás Maduro para perpetuarse, mientras continúa secuestrando, torturando y asesinando a la población civil, y más de ocho millones de ciudadanos han debido emigrar; hay ya un proceso en marcha, en la Corte Penal Internacional, contra él y muchos de sus cómplices, todos socios y aliados de Néstor y Cristina Kirchner, por la comisión masiva de delitos de lesa humanidad.
MileiMachado
En su país, el fuerte liderazgo de María Corina Machado, una verdadera heroína, mantiene unida a la oposición y sus seguidores superan el miedo y siguen saliendo a la calle a manifestar su descontento, tanto contra ese fraude cuanto por la terrible situación económica que atraviesa Venezuela, otrora inmensamente rica, después de veinticinco años de chavismo saqueador en el poder. Nada que sorprenda a los argentinos, que vivimos un proceso similar durante dieciséis años de populismo ladrón.
Volviendo a nuestro cotidiano peregrinar, felicito a Javier Milei por haberse recibido de político. Su negociación tan positiva con algunos miembros de la oposición le permitió blindar su veto a la irresponsable modificación el régimen jubilatorio, una ley sancionada por el H° Aguantadero sin explicar de dónde surgirían los fondos necesarios para atenderla. Los mismos que aplaudieron hasta que les sangraron las manos los disparates previsionales de Cristina Fernández (la confiscación de las AFJP y la incorporación al sistema, ya quebrado por la informalidad del 50% de nuestra economía, de varios millones de jubilados que no habían efectuado los aportes necesarios) ahora se disfrazaron de generosos reyes magos sólo para hacer pagar al Gobierno un enorme costo político.
Cristina FernándezKirchner
Las críticas a los diputados del radicalismo que, cambiando su postura, permitieron al Gobierno ese logro me parecen injustificadas. Las bancas legislativas no pertenecen a los partidos sino que quienes las ocupan son elegidos por aquéllos a quienes deben representar, aunque las famosas listas-sábana (a punto de extinguirse, para bien de la República) hayan degradado ese rol constitucional. Estas negociaciones, como las que ahora lleva adelante Milei, son absolutamente normales en los países civilizados, en especial en aquéllos que utilizan sistemas parlamentarios como los europeos.
La misma conducta falsamente progresista se repitió con el aumento, que será vetado por el Presidente, de la financiación de las universidades, esa enorme caja que beneficia a la UCR en la UBA y al kirchnerismo en las decenas inauguradas, sin razón alguna, en todo el país, sobre todo en el Conurbano bonaerense, la mayoría de las cuales carece de real nivel académico. El colmo de esa puerca política fue el absurdo reconocimiento, con la asignación de monumentales fondos públicos para solventarla, a la Universidad de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo que, en tantos años de funcionamiento, no logró graduar ni siquiera a un centenar de alumnos.
All states are part of the Union and have equal recognition under the Constitution.
One vote each = one elector each. Elected by each state without participation of Republicans, Democrats, Independents or other parties from across the Union. Only state parties.
Pero cuanta plata corrio por la universidad de las madres….
No quiero acusar por acusar por eso no quiero señalar a la Hebe, pero que alguien se la levo con pala…
I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won, by the majority of the people…In fact, our leverage in elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populous goes down
Richard:The Electoral College was almost abolished in the year 1970 with bipartisan support from both Republicans & Democrats. President Richard Nixon even endorsed the amendment to replace the system with a two round vote system. It looked like 3/4ths of the state were going to ratified the amendment and it did pass in the house unanimously; but was filibustered in the Senate by Southern lawmakers who feared that with a direct election for president than African Americans in the south would count equally to white voters.
donna pasciarotti
posted on September 13, 2024
the sweet smell of racism…
pauline kottas
posted on September 13, 2024
Without the electoral college, democratic candidates would be forced to campaign in Texas, where half the population votes democratic, while the Republican candidate would be obligated to campaign in California, where there are millions of Republican voters. Both would need to visit small states, because every vote would count. Let’s ditch the Electoral College.
Thinking Out Loud
posted on September 13, 2024
This is why we should start teaching civics again..
Matt
posted on September 13, 2024
the founders feared someone like Julius Caesar who endangered the republic despite unanimous popularity. In such a situation they wanted the electoral college to have the power to deny such a person a win by vote. I believe they called it “tyranny of the majority?” Personally, I think it was adequate for the early 1800’s but after that if such a scenario would happen such a decision by the electoral college would likely result in Civil War. Personally, I think the founders’ fears of which was worse, tyranny of the majority or Tyranny of the minority, actually is demonstrated pretty well when you see how the House of Representatives vs the Senate was set up in how they represented voters.
Mark Axos
posted on September 13, 2024
One way to reform the Electoral College, would be rather than a state giving all their electoral votes, they proportionally represent their state, in other words, states would be able to show their voting pattern which is reflected in the Electoral College. Basically, if California for example distributed its 55 electoral votes to reflect the republican supporting counties and the democrat supporting ones. It would (I word it cautiously), in an ideal world probably better reflect the popular vote
joe_verdrieben
posted on September 13, 2024
That’s how it originally was. But, sometime early in the 1800s Tennessee (as I recall it being that particular state) went to a winner take all for its electorates to shore up its power as a state within the union. James Madison, who is considered a major architect of our Constitution protested it saying that it wasn’t the original intent. But, the Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee’s favor forcing most all the other states to do the same thing in order to insure they had as equal a voice to Tennessee’s in the Federal Government. The biggest obstacle to reforming the Electoral College isn’t so much the politicians in Washington as it is each individual state wanting to keep a sense of power in a Federal Republic. That is a government that is made up of individual autonomous or at least semi-autonomous governments working together. so, proportioning the Electoral votes would be going back to the original intent. After further research, I found that Alexander Hamilton went so far as to try to put in a Constitutional Amendment that would ensure the Electoral College would be determined by district and not by state.
Mark Axos
posted on September 13, 2024
this leads to my (admittedly mediocre) solution: ranked choice voting in winner take all systems. An easy sell for current politicians, and hopefully it breaks up the duopoly by removing wasting votes by third party. Then, candidates just need to be willing to wield their electoral votes to cobble majorities, and the system is at least better, and better able to move further forward
Kevin Milone
posted on September 13, 2024
I am sorry… they do that
Jeff Anderton
posted on September 13, 2024
To win a majority of the population, you’d have to win the top 40 cities and their suburbs. And you can’t win them by a simple majority. You have to win them by 100%. There is no city that goes 100% for a candidate let alone suburbs. St. Louis city went 80% for Clinton, but the metropolitan area as a whole went to Trump. Even if you only focused on those 40 metro areas, that covers a wider range geographically than candidates typically do now. You have to keep in mind, there are many metro areas that extend into 2 or even 3 states. I have lived in 2 separate metro areas that extended into 3 states.
Karen Durso
posted on September 13, 2024
2 separate metro areas that extended into 3 states.’ that is something unique to the New England area, with Kansas City being an exemption. This is not something you find in Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, Phoenix, AZ, San Antonio, TX, San Diego, CA, Dallas, TX, San Jose, CA and that’s just what I feel like posting here. The vast majority of the cities in the top 50 have greater metro areas that are in one and if you notice California, Texas, Florida are in here a lot, you are missing many states. In fact, you can get to get to 51% of the population by only adding up 9 states. Would you call 9/50 a covers a wider range geographically? And by looking for the URL for you I found that by 2040 it will be 8 states, so the problem will only get worse.
Jennifer Corr^2008
posted on September 13, 2024
The Chicago area extends into 3 states. Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
Karen Durso
posted on September 13, 2024
metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. This seems way too broad but it agrees with you. This does include suburbs so I am assuming you have never been to the suburbs of Chicago. And because I currently live in one of the metro areas you mentioned I would have to disagree with how homogenous it is, but I have been wrong before, it just seems odd you want in increase representation by allowing candidates to go to fewer places.
Jennifer Corr^2008
posted on September 13, 2024
I don’t mean to say that metro areas are homogenous themselves, but they are more likely to be closer together in thought than less urban areas or other metros of a state. 5 of the 6 largest counties in the Chicago metro area voted for Clinton for instance. Most suburbanites in the Chicago area vote Democrats, at least for President. This is actually a fairly recent development because they used to go Republican not that long ago. But what the Chicago area thinks has no bearing on what other metros in the state thing. For Illinois, it doesn’t matter that much because the Chicago metro is just a huge percentage of the population. I mainly wanted to touch on Chicago in this comment because you did. But take Florida, again. Metro Jacksonville is red, yet Metro Miami went blue. Houston’s metro area in Texas went Trump while El Paso’s went Clinton. This map is a good way to show how divided states can be.
Russell W.
posted on September 13, 2024
Besides getting rid of the electoral college, the U.S. also needs to pass a law banning corporate campaign “donations” (i.e. legalized bribes) so that politicians stop serving corporate interests and CEOs and start serving the people who voted for them. That would end the current state of plutocratic, oligarchic corporatocracy, and turn the U.S. into a democracy.
“Cada partido y cada institución relevante tenía su propia prensa. La información, para esa
prensa, no era la búsqueda de la verdad, sino ganar espacio y vencer a su enemigo particular”.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Sin lugar a dudas, el acontecimiento de la semana fue el debate entre Kamala Harris y Donald Trump, que concitó justificadamente la atención masiva en todos los países, toda vez que dentro de sólo 51 días se dirimirá quién gobernará la primera potencia global y, con ello, diseñará la geopolítica mundial de los próximos cuatro años. Estuvieron seguramente muy atentos los gobiernos de Taiwan y Filipinas, de Israel e Irán, de Ucrania y Rusia, de Venezuela y Cuba, de China y de Corea del Norte, la OTAN, la Comunidad Europea, la ONU y los hutíes que controlan la entrada al Mar Rojo, o sea, aquéllos inmersos en conflictos bélicos o políticos de alta o baja intensidad.
Seguramente por el desconcierto que causó en la campaña republicana el cambio de contendiente tras la renuncia de Joe Biden a buscar la reelección, en general la prensa norteamericana adjudicó a la actual Vicepresidente la victoria, pero señalando el alto nivel de desconocimiento que aún la afecta, y por ello puso en duda que el evento haya servido para marcar un quiebre en una carrera que está prácticamente empatada, con una sociedad que sufre una virulenta grieta, similar a la de tantos otros países, como Brasil, España y, por supuesto, nuestra Argentina.
En los Estados Unidos, donde el voto no es obligatorio y hay que anotarse previamente para ejercer ese derecho, los ciudadanos de cada Estado eligen representantes al Colegio Electoral. Hay sólo dos partidos políticos importantes (Republicano y Demócrata) y el que gana en un Estado, se lleva todos los delegados atribuidos al mismo; la cantidad que corresponde a cada uno de ellos no está vinculada a su población o a su PBI.
Ese Colegio está integrado por 435 representantes estaduales más 3 por la capital, Washington DC, y 100 senadores; o sea, suma 538 delegados y, para hacerse con la Presidencia del país, un candidato debe reunir un mínimo de 270 voluntades. En caso de empate, la Cámara de Representantes (Diputados) elegirá al Presidente y el Senado al Vicepresidente. Como ya dije, creo que se repetirá este 4 de noviembre el resultado de 2016, cuando Hillary Clinton obtuvo casi tres millones de votos más que Trump pero éste mayor cantidad de delegados electorales y ganó la Presidencia.
El otro episodio relevante fue el asilo político que concedió , a tono con el generalizado respaldo de la Comunidad Europea, el Congreso español –no el gobierno de Pedro Sánchez- a Edmundo González Urrutia, a quien reconoce como Presidente electo de Venezuela, a pesar del masivo fraude que perpetró el tirano Nicolás Maduro para perpetuarse, mientras continúa secuestrando, torturando y asesinando a la población civil, y más de ocho millones de ciudadanos han debido emigrar; hay ya un proceso en marcha, en la Corte Penal Internacional, contra él y muchos de sus cómplices, todos socios y aliados de Néstor y Cristina Kirchner, por la comisión masiva de delitos de lesa humanidad.
En su país, el fuerte liderazgo de María Corina Machado, una verdadera heroína, mantiene unida a la oposición y sus seguidores superan el miedo y siguen saliendo a la calle a manifestar su descontento, tanto contra ese fraude cuanto por la terrible situación económica que atraviesa Venezuela, otrora inmensamente rica, después de veinticinco años de chavismo saqueador en el poder. Nada que sorprenda a los argentinos, que vivimos un proceso similar durante dieciséis años de populismo ladrón.
Volviendo a nuestro cotidiano peregrinar, felicito a Javier Milei por haberse recibido de político. Su negociación tan positiva con algunos miembros de la oposición le permitió blindar su veto a la irresponsable modificación el régimen jubilatorio, una ley sancionada por el H° Aguantadero sin explicar de dónde surgirían los fondos necesarios para atenderla. Los mismos que aplaudieron hasta que les sangraron las manos los disparates previsionales de Cristina Fernández (la confiscación de las AFJP y la incorporación al sistema, ya quebrado por la informalidad del 50% de nuestra economía, de varios millones de jubilados que no habían efectuado los aportes necesarios) ahora se disfrazaron de generosos reyes magos sólo para hacer pagar al Gobierno un enorme costo político.
Las críticas a los diputados del radicalismo que, cambiando su postura, permitieron al Gobierno ese logro me parecen injustificadas. Las bancas legislativas no pertenecen a los partidos sino que quienes las ocupan son elegidos por aquéllos a quienes deben representar, aunque las famosas listas-sábana (a punto de extinguirse, para bien de la República) hayan degradado ese rol constitucional. Estas negociaciones, como las que ahora lleva adelante Milei, son absolutamente normales en los países civilizados, en especial en aquéllos que utilizan sistemas parlamentarios como los europeos.
La misma conducta falsamente progresista se repitió con el aumento, que será vetado por el Presidente, de la financiación de las universidades, esa enorme caja que beneficia a la UCR en la UBA y al kirchnerismo en las decenas inauguradas, sin razón alguna, en todo el país, sobre todo en el Conurbano bonaerense, la mayoría de las cuales carece de real nivel académico. El colmo de esa puerca política fue el absurdo reconocimiento, con la asignación de monumentales fondos públicos para solventarla, a la Universidad de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo que, en tantos años de funcionamiento, no logró graduar ni siquiera a un centenar de alumnos.
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Entre quien entre son la misma bosta
Mientras existan politicos el pais no va a salir adelante
Sigan creyendo en Kamala, Corina, Cristina, Hilaria, son todas cortadas por la misma tijera. Además, el fin del mundo ha llegado. Vean la foto.
Nos fuimos la B hace rato
Van a tener que pasar unas cuantas generaciones hasta que no queden ni las cenzas de los ladrikirchneristas.
Juira las lstas sabana !!!!!!!!!!!
Muy buen artículo
Para ver hasta el final.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3yuzUcyzY
Biden was going to lose. I think Kamala has way more chances.
All states are part of the Union and have equal recognition under the Constitution.
One vote each = one elector each. Elected by each state without participation of Republicans, Democrats, Independents or other parties from across the Union. Only state parties.
The 50 electors must choose the POTUS from among the best governors.
Yo llamaria a elecciones para contratar a un presidente extranjero.
La UCR es un cancer como el peronchismo Kirchnerista
Con las listas sabanas siempre nos garch……………………………..
Los radicales son Brutus.
Pero cuanta plata corrio por la universidad de las madres….
No quiero acusar por acusar por eso no quiero señalar a la Hebe, pero que alguien se la levo con pala…
Biden se dio cuenta a tiempo.
Yo estoy con Maria Corina. Espero sinceramente que no escape como Edmundo.
Edmundo ya esta comodo con el ex rey juanca
Quien paga todos los gastos de este Sr. en España ?
That’s what trumps going to have to do with all the law fare
America needs to abolish electoral colleges. It is undemocratic.
We should have our candidates fight to the death in a cage match
Then, no need to vote 🙂
I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won, by the majority of the people…In fact, our leverage in elections, quite candidly, goes up as the voting populous goes down
Richard: The Electoral College was almost abolished in the year 1970 with bipartisan support from both Republicans & Democrats. President Richard Nixon even endorsed the amendment to replace the system with a two round vote system. It looked like 3/4ths of the state were going to ratified the amendment and it did pass in the house unanimously; but was filibustered in the Senate by Southern lawmakers who feared that with a direct election for president than African Americans in the south would count equally to white voters.
the sweet smell of racism…
Without the electoral college, democratic candidates would be forced to campaign in Texas, where half the population votes democratic, while the Republican candidate would be obligated to campaign in California, where there are millions of Republican voters. Both would need to visit small states, because every vote would count. Let’s ditch the Electoral College.
This is why we should start teaching civics again..
the founders feared someone like Julius Caesar who endangered the republic despite unanimous popularity. In such a situation they wanted the electoral college to have the power to deny such a person a win by vote. I believe they called it “tyranny of the majority?” Personally, I think it was adequate for the early 1800’s but after that if such a scenario would happen such a decision by the electoral college would likely result in Civil War. Personally, I think the founders’ fears of which was worse, tyranny of the majority or Tyranny of the minority, actually is demonstrated pretty well when you see how the House of Representatives vs the Senate was set up in how they represented voters.
One way to reform the Electoral College, would be rather than a state giving all their electoral votes, they proportionally represent their state, in other words, states would be able to show their voting pattern which is reflected in the Electoral College. Basically, if California for example distributed its 55 electoral votes to reflect the republican supporting counties and the democrat supporting ones. It would (I word it cautiously), in an ideal world probably better reflect the popular vote
That’s how it originally was. But, sometime early in the 1800s Tennessee (as I recall it being that particular state) went to a winner take all for its electorates to shore up its power as a state within the union. James Madison, who is considered a major architect of our Constitution protested it saying that it wasn’t the original intent. But, the Supreme Court ruled in Tennessee’s favor forcing most all the other states to do the same thing in order to insure they had as equal a voice to Tennessee’s in the Federal Government. The biggest obstacle to reforming the Electoral College isn’t so much the politicians in Washington as it is each individual state wanting to keep a sense of power in a Federal Republic. That is a government that is made up of individual autonomous or at least semi-autonomous governments working together. so, proportioning the Electoral votes would be going back to the original intent. After further research, I found that Alexander Hamilton went so far as to try to put in a Constitutional Amendment that would ensure the Electoral College would be determined by district and not by state.
this leads to my (admittedly mediocre) solution: ranked choice voting in winner take all systems. An easy sell for current politicians, and hopefully it breaks up the duopoly by removing wasting votes by third party. Then, candidates just need to be willing to wield their electoral votes to cobble majorities, and the system is at least better, and better able to move further forward
I am sorry… they do that
To win a majority of the population, you’d have to win the top 40 cities and their suburbs. And you can’t win them by a simple majority. You have to win them by 100%. There is no city that goes 100% for a candidate let alone suburbs. St. Louis city went 80% for Clinton, but the metropolitan area as a whole went to Trump. Even if you only focused on those 40 metro areas, that covers a wider range geographically than candidates typically do now. You have to keep in mind, there are many metro areas that extend into 2 or even 3 states. I have lived in 2 separate metro areas that extended into 3 states.
2 separate metro areas that extended into 3 states.’ that is something unique to the New England area, with Kansas City being an exemption. This is not something you find in Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, Phoenix, AZ, San Antonio, TX, San Diego, CA, Dallas, TX, San Jose, CA and that’s just what I feel like posting here. The vast majority of the cities in the top 50 have greater metro areas that are in one and if you notice California, Texas, Florida are in here a lot, you are missing many states. In fact, you can get to get to 51% of the population by only adding up 9 states. Would you call 9/50 a covers a wider range geographically? And by looking for the URL for you I found that by 2040 it will be 8 states, so the problem will only get worse.
The Chicago area extends into 3 states. Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing. This seems way too broad but it agrees with you. This does include suburbs so I am assuming you have never been to the suburbs of Chicago. And because I currently live in one of the metro areas you mentioned I would have to disagree with how homogenous it is, but I have been wrong before, it just seems odd you want in increase representation by allowing candidates to go to fewer places.
I don’t mean to say that metro areas are homogenous themselves, but they are more likely to be closer together in thought than less urban areas or other metros of a state. 5 of the 6 largest counties in the Chicago metro area voted for Clinton for instance.
Most suburbanites in the Chicago area vote Democrats, at least for President. This is actually a fairly recent development because they used to go Republican not that long ago. But what the Chicago area thinks has no bearing on what other metros in the state thing. For Illinois, it doesn’t matter that much because the Chicago metro is just a huge percentage of the population. I mainly wanted to touch on Chicago in this comment because you did.
But take Florida, again. Metro Jacksonville is red, yet Metro Miami went blue. Houston’s metro area in Texas went Trump while El Paso’s went Clinton. This map is a good way to show how divided states can be.
Besides getting rid of the electoral college, the U.S. also needs to pass a law banning corporate campaign “donations” (i.e. legalized bribes) so that politicians stop serving corporate interests and CEOs and start serving the people who voted for them. That would end the current state of plutocratic, oligarchic corporatocracy, and turn the U.S. into a democracy.
Of course they do
Es hora que las listas sabana desaparezcan.
Esas sabanas envuelven delincuentes.
La politica mundial se ha terminado de podrir.
The USA is no longer the world’s leading power. Neither nuclear nor economic.
And it is losing the cultural battle.