> --- "Kristin A. Ruhle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew Crystall wrote about Bush II:
> > > >
> > > > Who funded him into office? What do you EXPECT?
> > > >
> > > But 75% of the USA electors tolerated his
> > election. So,
> > > I guess whatever he does reflects all but a
> > minority [25%]
> > > of the USA citizens O:-)
> > >
> > ELECTORS - the Electoral College (which I think
> > should be abolished!) not
> > ELECTORATE - Bush did not even win the popular
> > vote!!!!
> >
>
> Enjoyed ranting too much to unsubscribe, didja? =)
>
> I thought that the electoral college should be dumped
> immediately too, until someone gave me this little gem
> of info:
>
> if we went to purely a popular vote system, all the
> candidates would do is pander to the 4 biggest states
> (ca, ny, fl, and tx), and leave the rest of us to rot.
>
>
> *everyone* was predicting that this election was going
> to be so close that the losers were going to scream
> for the electoral college's collective head.
>
> dean
I never heard that before. I thought all the predictors were caught with
their pants 'round their ankles when Gore didn't win by 5-7% and Bush did
win.
And the popular vote thing: I heard that the nationwide popular vote was
closer than the uncounted mail-in ballots in California alone but they
didn't count them cause the state was won by Gore by more than the
difference in that state. So Gore may have won the California vote but Bush
'may' have won the nationwide popular vote. There were other states, like PA
grrrrr, where they didn't count mail-in ballots for the same reason.
Kevin Tarr
Trump high, lead low
