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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (16928)12/3/2000 11:24:33 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (1) of 60323
 
Instead of "all-or-nothing", we would then have something close to a popular vote

AFAIK there is not a single western (ie G7/8) democracy that has a popular vote elected President without also having a parliamentary (ie, electoral college-like) Prime Minister as well as greatly curtailed Presidential powers. Some countries (Canada, UK) do away with the Presidency altogether. Personally, I would not want the system changed unless the Presidency was weakened considerably in favor of Congress.

I don't believe your point about a popular vote making this nonsense go away is valid. The nationwide vote was close enough that the Florida fiasco would be duplicated in every county in every state across the entire nation.
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