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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (98512)12/2/2000 3:55:17 PM
From: Roger A. Babb  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
Thomas, it is a simple fact that Gore received more votes than Bush nationwide. It also appears that more voters in Florida "tried" to vote for Gore than for Bush and that various technicalities where used by the controlling Republican party in Florida to swing the results to Bush. But that is not to say that the Democrats would not have done the same stuff if they were in control of Florida.

By your "will of the people" argument, Gore should win. The only purpose of the electoral college process is to allow exceptions to be made to electing the person with the most votes, ie over ride the "will of the people" when the other candidate is obviously a better choice. Obviously Jeb thinks his brother is a better choice!

This whole process stinks. We need a simple way to just count the votes and put the winner in office.
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