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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (7988)	11/10/2000 1:17:54 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) of 22706

why wouldn't the other candidate campaign the electoral college members from the 25 states that aren't bound to vote as the populace voted? why shouldn't they? honor, IMO. Both sides openly stated, both before and after the election, that they would abide by the electoral college rather than the popular vote, clearly meaning by that the original electoral college vote totals, and I think that to go back on that would be shameful. (Let it be said here, however, that ctg disagrees here, and thinks that it would be no more shameful than accepting victory when you and everyone else in the country know that a majority of the people who voted in the decisive state preferred the other guy.) Why wouldn't they? Shame? Fear they wouldn't be able to pull it off thanks to popular outrage? More moral wife's private pledge to divorce them if they considered it? it could happen, but it's a low probability, IMO. Course, if it could be engineered so that it seemed spontaneous, with no connection to the campaign in question.... ctb/A@don'tgothere.com

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