On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 01:21 AM 12/2/00 -0500, Yanni wrote:
> >Actually Darryl, we are a democracy in name only. We've got the whole
> >electoral college crap, remember? And it's not much of a democracy when
> >you only ever have 2 choices. It may be <i>called</i> a democracy, but
> >is it really?
>
> But there were far more than 2 candidates! By my count: Bush, Gore,
> McCain, Bradley, Forbes all had very realistic shots. You could also
> toss in people like Buchanan, Nader, Kasich, L. Dole, etc. who were
> certainly *serious* about running, but did not have broad-based
> support.
Gee, and here I was thinking we had just 5 candidates on the actual ballot
-- Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Gore, Nader; and running-mates with each of
them.
(Of course, you've listed people on the ballots for the primaries for the
Republican and Democratic parties here, while I'm talking about a
different ballot. Apples and pears.... I think more of the people on
this list voted in the actual presidential election than voted in the
primaries, but I could be wrong.)
Julia
