-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:14 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > > of US citizens with contrary views to those of the court-appointed US > > president and his apologists - I count several besides myself in this > > list thus far. Not all Americans respond with reflex support for what the > > current person in the White House says. > > Just to be accurate, there were no less than -3- independent recounts of > the votes after the election - Bush was the winner in all 3 recounts. > So....he was not "court appointed". Under the rules of our voting system - > whoever takes the most votes in the Electoral college wins. Bush did this. > Gore did have more popular votes - but he did not have more electoral > votes. There are a lot of opinions (for and against) the electoral college > - but it is the way the system is setup legally. It was setup before the > election between Bush and Gore. Only Gore wanted to change the rules AFTER > the election started.
I understand that it was the electoral college - but I disdain and wish to see abolished the electoral college. It is a vestige of the attempts by SOME early Framers to restrict who could vote/who had "control" of the political process. No other democracy on the planet uses a system whereby the majority of the citizens can be overruled by cliques of supervoters. The people themselves know what they want more than some misrepresentation of the people. If most people voted against you, by definition, you do not properly represent them and cannot claim to do so. All too often the electoral vote is used to determine "landslide" victories or "mandates". Reagan did this because he overwhelmingly won the ELECTORAL vote. Looking at the popular vote, the actual people's votes themselves, he had no mandate for anything. He didn't get much more than 50% (I seem to recall it being on the order of 54%). That means that nearly half the country voted against you and doesn't support you. That doesn't say mandate or landslide by any stretch. The electoral college is wrong and needs to go. - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ODQ41i/6R1B/Yh0RAhiSAJwKTNa+PaAkmP63GK1rQnq8PSp4yACfY14R iHpXepRG8iVoZP70Y1OIIb8= =I0m7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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