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To: tejek who wrote (160282)	2/7/2003 9:58:35 AM
From: jjayxxxx	Read Replies (1) of 1578915

Ted, I think the NW and heartland are already overlooked. I disagree. They came to Portland for the last election anyway. Maybe not as much as the biggies, but they did at least stop by a couple times. However, assuming you are right and they are already overlooked, if the election was purely by popular vote it would be a mess. Campaigns would focus on heavily populated areas leaving the other areas even further in the cold than they already are. Plus, a close election would make the whole country a Florida-like mess. I think it needs to be abolished particularly when it can subvert the will of the people like it did in the last presidential election. I know you aren't an old dog, so why not learn something here? Had the vote been popular-based the results would have likely been significantly different. But in which direction we'll never know because it wasn't campaigned that way. As it was, they campaigned in the states that were close. Had it been popular-based, they would have campaigned in populous states instead. In other words, the will of the people was precisely what resulted - GWB became president - because that was the way the election was campaigned and run. FWIW, JJ

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