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Only two parties, no other choices, you had to pick Red or Blue!
Except that isn't true in the slightest. There were at least 2 other candidates, Johnson and Stein, on ballots in nearly every state.
But 'third party never wins'. Can't imagine it has anything to do with the massive number of voters who choose not to educate themselves about who's actually on the ballot.
Or the media purposely shunning third party candidates unless they can mock them in some way.
Or the Commission on Presidential Debates making it pretty much impossible for third party candidates to participate in the debates, with their '15% in 5 national polls' rule.
You had more than two choices. Anyone who actually looked at the ballot would have seen that there were more than two options available. You chose to limit yourself to the two party system.
I'll be interested to see how this Puerto Rico thing turns out.
Except that isn't true in the slightest. There were at least 2 other candidates, Johnson and Stein, on ballots in nearly every state.
But 'third party never wins'. Can't imagine it has anything to do with the massive number of voters who choose not to educate themselves about who's actually on the ballot.
Or the media purposely shunning third party candidates unless they can mock them in some way.
Or the Commission on Presidential Debates making it pretty much impossible for third party candidates to participate in the debates, with their '15% in 5 national polls' rule.
You had more than two choices. Anyone who actually looked at the ballot would have seen that there were more than two options available. You chose to limit yourself to the two party system.
I'll be interested to see how this Puerto Rico thing turns out.
That's what I mean. There are only two choices that can ever actually make it in. The system is rigged against a third party - that's my entire point in saying that. That's one of the main reasons our entire system is utterly broken.
For the record, I wrote in Ron Paul. I don't limit myself to the choices provided on the ballot.
@Capvin.
Regrettably, going to college costs money. Going out-of-state costs more money, which we do not have; as it is, the only possible way we could afford Elon is if I managed to get a TON of scholarship money. If I can manage to find a freakin' job in my dinky little town that isn't temporary (I HAD a job, and the management conveniently neglected to tell me that it was temporary, putting me "on call" after the third week and never explaining that I was out of a job until I confronted the manager a week later), a significant portion of it will have to go towards college.
Regrettably, going to college costs money. Going out-of-state costs more money, which we do not have; as it is, the only possible way we could afford Elon is if I managed to get a TON of scholarship money. If I can manage to find a freakin' job in my dinky little town that isn't temporary (I HAD a job, and the management conveniently neglected to tell me that it was temporary, putting me "on call" after the third week and never explaining that I was out of a job until I confronted the manager a week later), a significant portion of it will have to go towards college.
I'd suggest: http://clep.collegeboard.org/ (YMMV - I took them in `71 and checked specs again in mid `90's for our daughters)
It is important to get one's ducks lined up beforehand, i.e., what are the cut-off scores that the U's you are considering will accept as fulfilling the req. for the subject(s) challenged, what is required to validate those credits at the U's in question, e.g., completion of a single full semester? There are also schools that are still playing catch-22 "yes, you certainly did meet our requirements for those 30 credit hours in American History, Algebra, English Comp., biology (etc). However, in order to validate those credits, as an incoming freshman, you'll need to take American History, Algebra, etc. If this happens take it up with the U admin. (I was allowed to take 12 hours of `electives' to validate rather than twiddle my thumbs in packed lecture halls).
Autodidacts do it on the cheap.
In the second volume of John McPhee's Annals Of The Former World, Rising From The Plains, he focuses on the life and knowledge of David Love of the USGS. Love was home schooled by his mother on a sheep ranch in Wyoming in the early `1900's. Of Love's University training, McPhee relates the following:
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