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From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Making Sense of It All
> At 08:03 PM 12/17/00 -0600, xponent wrote:
> >Here is a challange to rhetoric:
> >*Show how the underpopulated states were protected by electing a
Republican
> >rather than the person picked by the majority of the people.
>
> This year has the perfect example - New Mexico. Both candidates
> campaigned in New Mexico this year. If not for the electoral college, no
> President, and no Presidential Candidate, would care two wits about New
> Mexico. Instead, both candidates campaigned in New Mexico and had to be
> exposed to New Mexican issues and needs.
What? For a day? You think that lip service politicking actually makes any
difference?
Sheeeesh....that seems pretty naaive to me. (But I will admit I could be
wrong.)
>
> >(As I understand it, Republicans are the only party to benefit from the
> >existence of the electoral college.)
>
> That's unclear.
No it isnt!
> This is the first election in the modern era where the
> winner of the popular vote lost the Presidency. Given, however, that
many
> pundits predicted that Bush might win the popular vote this time around,
> and Gore would win the electoral college, it hardly seems to clearly
benfit
> either party.
Pundits and predictions count for how much as compared to actual results?
