Past floor 50 even . <| sep |> I rather like the way in which federalism allows states to experiment with certain things and see the effects . I also believe that State governments should be closer to their citizens and therefore be more effective than a distant national government at fixing the problems their citizens face . My MAIN problem with the electoral college is that it moves too far away from one person one vote . If someone receives a majority plurality ? of votes , they deserve to be president . <| sep |> I appear to be a retiring , bespectacled middleaged guy , and I pretty much am now . But I lived an entirely different , hedonistic , drugfueled life at one point that included nosmall amount of criminal activity . I was really off the rails for a while . Few people I know in my present location , and no one I work with , knows this about me . To them I ' m just the quiet older guy who ' s dependable at work and always willing to help with a problem .