California- trying to manipulate elections, again.....

Apparently the prospect of not being able to claim a popular vote win because of stupidity didn’t go over real well ....

 

Yeah them booksales when he became president went thru the roof, but that's somehow being a loser. Brilliant logic.

And if you buy that bullshit statement you shouldn't go accusing others of being losers.

 

Yea right books that are still sitting in a warehouse collecting dust.

 

As always, two wrongs make a right.

 

Ballot access is determined by the states, presidential eligibility by the constitution. Two different things. Up and until now all states gave both major parties automatic ballot access. But denied all independents and third party candidates ballot access unless and until they went through a million and one hoops. If a state can deny third party and independent candidates ballot access due to various reasons and requirements, a state certainly could do the same to one or both major parties.

While I agree, this measure is directed solely at Trump. Call it political vindictiveness, partisan politics to the max, a sort of political revenge for losing an election. Even so, I see nothing unconstitutional about it.

States in the past have allowed each party to determine the requirements to appear on their primary ballot while the state determines the requirements for the general election. This is a first as far as I know where a state interferes in a party's primary process.

The constitution leaves the selection of electors is left up to the state legislatures, the manner of elections are left to the state legislatures. I'd love to see this new requirement, law challenged in court. To see how the SCOTUS would rule. It would be great being a third party critter to see the SCOTUS rule that all presidential candidates must be included on the ballot as long as the meet the constitutional requirements for eligibility. That would mean independents and any third party candidate would also have to be granted automatic ballot access. Outstanding, go for it. As is, the two major parties have a monopoly on our election system, perhaps this, depending on the SCOTUS ruling if a court challenge is initiated, could open up a crack to that monopoly.

 

Great, that's one rule correctly followed.

 

outselling your dear leader by 7 to one. And michelle is outselling him by 10 to one. At least the obama's actually wrote their books.

 

Actually it has been proven neither one wrote those books.

And by the way who is my dear leader, a question you cannot answer, because you have no clue who that is.

 

Care to prove that "its proven" with some proof? I thought not.

Since its sometimes hard to tell, I admit I could be wrong and you agree with putin and he's just a great "useful idiot". that an equally plausible explanation.