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Originally Posted by epitome
We didn't actually vote Bush in the first time. We voted Gore in. We did the second time. I don't know why but we did.
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And Obama actually only won the vote by 61,173,739 or 50.5% to 58,167,260 or 48.0%
And yet, you have people in this thread calling it a "landslide" and "lost BIG" because it's the electoral vote that counts.
Reality is...Obama won a little over half. Which means about half the country voted the other way.
I really think that all 50 states should be required to dole out their electoral votes based on the popular vote.
As it stands now...if a candidate wins the popular vote by ONE vote in a state...he gets 100% of the electoral votes.
That's just wrong.
And if it were changed...you're right, Al Gore would have won in 2000. (god help us, we'd all be riding bicycles and have no electricity so we would be "green", while he would still be riding in limousines and flying private jets. lol )