Obama-Biden or McCain-Palin(Speedsolving Votes)

[brunson]

Of course, but the president doesn't have that much power anyway, so why not just make the president the one who gets the most votes instead of having some complicated system? In the end, the president can't do that much anyway...

Um, after George W. Bush came into power, there was a huge increase in power of the president.

With Obama in the White House and with a Democratic-controlled Congress, we'll see even more power in this particular president.

Actually, then tendency towards passing "Exectutive Orders" willy-nilly was started by Slick Willy himself (Bill Clinton, for those who don't know the nickname). Clinton used it more for personal gain and to help his political cronies, but he really abused the precedent.