>Which future President election may produce 1860 type political timebomb >results ???
Well, if any election *should have* produced an explosion of outrage, it was 2000, right? That was when the minority-victory scenario actually played out. And of course there was such an outrage, but it was mostly directed at the specific results (demanding recounts in Florida, looking at the poorly designed ballots, etc) as oppose to the fundamental problems. Hillary Clinton talked about abolishing the Electoral College a few weeks later, but that's the last I head of that. The movement has lost momentum, and it's a shame. The easy group to blame is the media. It's also easy to lose focus on any one reform when you look at the 2000 election, since ANY reasonable reform (and some unreasonable reforms like IRV) would have caused the election to swing the other way. The one thing that the 1860 election had that the 2000 election lacked was an explosive issue that broke on regional lines. Bush may have lost the popular vote, but at least he broke 40% in every region of the country. While the Electoral College distorted and watered down the power of many people's votes in 2000, it didn't blatantly disenfranchise an entire region like the 1860 vote did. - Adam Tarr
