For now, you may be comfortable with the leaders elected by less than a majority and agree with their policies,
With all due respect, and I am interested in and enjoying your posts, Mary, but it would help if you read the attached links and understood the process by which a president is elected.
How can Gore win the popular and lose the electoral vote?
It's not the economy, sonny, it's the states.
A state's electors is equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives. So each state has 2 more votes than its proportionate population. When the popular vote is so close, the number of STATES won becomes decisive. If early returns are confirmed on recount, Gov. Bush wins 31 states (61%), Vice-President Gore wins 19 and DC. Those 11 extra states in the Bush column convert to 22 additional electoral votes, which will be the winning margin for Gov. Bush. Is it fair? No less fair than the U.S. Senate, which gives every state 2 Senators regardless of its population.
In the 2000 election, the popular vote goes one way, but the state vote goes the other way, in landslide proportions! And it is only due to the state landslide that Gov. Bush has a chance. If Vice-President Gore squeezes out a win in Florida, he will win the Presidency having carried the lowest percentage of states (41%) of any President. Kennedy carried 46% of the states in 1960 and Carter carried 47% in 1976.
As is always the case, the Electoral College punishes the candidate that appeals to a limited region of the country. If you look at the electoral map, you can see that Bush succeeded in winning states in every region (with the help of Mr. Nader). Without Florida, Gore has no states in the South or the Mountain West. Again--no accident. The Electoral College is doing just what it is designed to do.
avagara.com
The common complaint that GWB didn't win the popular vote does not take into consideration the laws governing the Electoral College.
These laws apply to every presidential election and have since the founding of our nation.
The assertion that President Bush stole the election or that President Bush was "selected" by a biased Supreme Court is disingenuous and ignores the law of the United States of America.
fec.gov
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