http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/06/13/on-why-electing-judges-is-just-odd/ Bursts of Clarity, Illuminated. Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/06/13/on-why-electing-judges-is-just-odd/comment-page-1/#comment-127 The Will of the Voter and Credit Crisis | Oceans of Thought Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:17:31 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/?p=101#comment-127 [...] will of the Voter, yet our founding father didn’t trust the average voter.  They feared the Tyranny of the Majority.  This is one of the why we have an electoral college, so the majority of the large states [...] [...] will of the Voter, yet our founding father didn’t trust the average voter.  They feared the Tyranny of the Majority.  This is one of the why we have an electoral college, so the majority of the large states [...]

]]> http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/06/13/on-why-electing-judges-is-just-odd/comment-page-1/#comment-90 OceansOfThought Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:03:44 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/?p=101#comment-90 The problem is, biased speaking, the ones who do know or have the information are the ones we have to be careful off. I may not know who's on my local school board, but i bet there are people who do, and not only that, they -will- vote. So, yes, your right, most of us are ignorant of the local politics, but all politics is eventually local. The problem is, biased speaking, the ones who do know or have the information are the ones we have to be careful off. I may not know who’s on my local school board, but i bet there are people who do, and not only that, they -will- vote. So, yes, your right, most of us are ignorant of the local politics, but all politics is eventually local.

]]> http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/06/13/on-why-electing-judges-is-just-odd/comment-page-1/#comment-88 FlannelDoormat Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:16:15 +0000 http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/?p=101#comment-88 Delight must be taken in the knowledge that voters are largely uninformed of all but the presidential races, if Joe Public (and his ever-obliging, stand-by-your-man wife Jane) voted judges based on his conscience and biases, this might indeed be a frightning place to live. Delight must be taken in the knowledge that voters are largely uninformed of all but the presidential races, if Joe Public (and his ever-obliging, stand-by-your-man wife Jane) voted judges based on his conscience and biases, this might indeed be a frightning place to live.

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