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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: moosebeary who wrote (4265)12/2/2000 1:19:55 AM
From: TraderGreg  Read Replies (2) of 6710
 
One of the saddest realities is that Bob Dole in '96 was orders of magnitude more qualified than George Bush in '00.

But, like the Academy Awards, you got to compete against the competition in the year you're in.(Peter O'Toole would have won Best Actor for Lawrence of Arabia in almost any other year but 1962; several movies in 1939 were better than anything in '38 but they were up against Gone With the Wind.)

And that "majority" garbage is irrelevant...the only reason these candidates each got close to 50% was because of a weak 3rd party showing(albeit one with quite an impact though) this year as compared to '92 and '96.

The first Republican ever elected President got 39.82% of the vote...I guess in your eyes he was a real loser. His name was Lincoln.

In 1912, Wilson got a rocking 41.8% and in 1968 Nixon got 43.4%.

Case closed.

TG
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