At 12:33 17-12-00 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>At 04:07 PM 12/17/00 +0100, Jeroen wrote:
> >The Supreme Court already decided that Bush has
> >won the election.
>
>You misunderstand. The US Supreme Court merely decided that Florida's 25
>electors will be the 25 electors pledged to George W. Bush.
But, since the outcome in Florida would be decisive, the USSC decision
effectively declared Bush winner of the election (unless a few Bush-pledged
electors suddenly decide to vote for Gore).
>On December 18th, the 435 electors who will select America's President will
>meet. Bush has pledges from 271 of these electors to vote for him. That
>is only two more than the majority. Thus, it is within the realm of
>reasonable possibility that two of these electors will vote for Gore, thus
>making it a tie, or three of them will switch to Gore, giving the election
>to Gore outright.
In that case, I don't understand Bush. If there is still that much chance
of him losing, why is he making so much haste forming his cabinet?
> >He will also face the task of restoring people's faith in the legal system.
> >After all, Bush won not because the people voted for him (Gore won the
> >popular vote), but because the Supreme Court decided he had won. Based on
> >democratic principles (the will of the people), they should have declared
> >Al Gore winner.
>
>Fortunately, America is not a Democracy
Yet the US calls itself democratic. How can a country be democratic when
it's not a democracy?
>, it is a Republic, and a Federal
>Republic at that - a system of government well designed to protect the
>interests of people who live in the sparsely populated rural areas, as well
>as the heavily populated urban centers.
Irrelevant. I can accept that you want to protect sparsely populated areas
when dividing seats in Congress. However, this election is not about
*states* getting representation, but about asking the *population* which
*person* they want to be the next president. As explained before, due to
the electoral college system the outcome of the election does not
accurately represent the will of the people and is therefore not truly
democratic.
Jeroen
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