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Originally posted by xclusive
Check out the stats below I'm thinking that if over half a million people more voted for gore he should be president but that's just me and 539,946 others thought...
2000 Election: Bush 271, Gore 266, DC 1
U.S. popular vote: Gore +539,947 votes
U. S. Supreme Court: Bush 5, Gore 4
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When asked, I believe even the not-so-shy James Carville had to acknowledge that George Bush became President completely according to the law and Constitution.
Yeah. It's a f'ed up system. But the EC helps insulate the national outcome from some states having extra high turnout due to getting "their hometown boy" elected or extra low due to bad weather.
e.g. what if there is a big hurricane in Florida or a freak blizzard in the Northeast... Without the EC, that could decide an election.
Or on the other side, it makes Bush and Kerry happy to know that once the other guy has a "win" in a certain state... It does him no good to keep piling on the votes in states that already support him. So in reality, it's odd to say that Bush or Kerry has to "please" the far right or far left... since winning depends entirely on the middle.
The Supreme Court didn't decide "GW should be President.... they decided that there had been enough fcuking recounts in florida... Gore (AFAIK) hadn't won any of them... and it was just wasting time leaving things in limbo.
It won't matter this fall because re-election campaigns tend to be a landslide one way or the other. Thank God because I don't know if I could take having the left half or right half of the country bitching about the outcome another 4 years.
Plus... BECAUSE there's an Electoral College... We can't trust that the Popular Vote is accurate because people in some "locked up" states don't bother to vote BECAUSE they know their guy already won or lost that state... So it screws with the vote tallies.