September 17th 2012

Today in class we learned a lot about presidency and how the election works. It was interesting how there were actually three different plans that were on what the country needed for an exectutive. Earlier in the week, or rather last week since today is Monday, Mr. Boyle posted a question on if there should be one president or two and interestingly enough having more that one president was included in one of the plans. One thing that I found strange was that in the Hamilton Plan, the term length for the president could last for years and years if they were well behaved, like not breaking the law, etc. After I spent a few minutes pondering over this odd declaration, Mr. Boyle explained that Mr. Hamilton liked the idea of having a king which influenced his ideas. He also told us we'd be learning a little more on Mr. Hamilton later. I learned a lot about voting and the presidential election today too, like how the president can't win with only the electoral votes from the big states. When you just think about it you would think thay add up, but no, the numbers just don't add up quite right. We also found out some other little tidbits of information like Californina is usually democratic and Texas is usually republican, and Maine can go wither way. I am chock-full of little blurbs of information that I can pester my parents with when they go to vote. Voting and presidency is actually a really neat thing and I found class today to be really interesting.