At 09:41 PM 12/17/00 +0100, Jeroen wrote:
>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?
Because it would still be the "Mother of All Surprises", should Gore become
President. Also, accepting Gore's concession, and naming Cabinet nominees
helps create an aura of "inevitability."
>Yet the US calls itself democratic. How can a country be democratic when
>it's not a democracy?
Sometimes we get a little too excited. The distinction between a democracy
and a republic, after all, is a subtle one.
>Irrelevant. I can accept that you want to protect sparsely populated areas
>when dividing seats in Congress.
If you can understand it for the Legislative Branch, why not for the
Executive Branch?
> 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.
And why is a simple direct popular vote the best way to do that?
After all, which President would be more representative of the people:
A) A President who has the narrow support of the urban coastal areas,
producing a narrow overall popular majority, and little support from the
vast central rural areas?
B) A President with overwhelming support of the vast central rural areas,
and a decent minority of support in the urban coastal areas?
Why are you so convinced that candidate A is automatically a better
representative of the people than candidate B?
Why are you perfectly fine with making the legislative branch of the
government accountable to rural areas, but are so upset with any attempt to
make the executvie branch of the government accountable to the
less-populated areas?
JDG
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