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To: D. Long who wrote (39523)4/15/2004 3:19:13 AM
From: Michelino  Read Replies (4) of 793868
 
Your argument is specious.

The Electoral College is nothing but an extremely rough approximation of the popular vote. It was nonsense to let an entire state's electoral votes go to a winner who's margin of victory was less than the margin of error of the voting method. The whole science of statistics refutes the conclusion. So even without considering fraud, Bush's victory was just noise.

Continuing with this theme is 1960 - a famous myth among Republicans. You have forgotten that millions of Black voters were prevented from even going to the polls...it would have been a runaway for JFK if not for racism. That was the real stink. The bigots of Mississippi, where 95% of the black population was not allowed to vote, even refused to give Kennedy his electoral due. The hogwash about 1960 is passed like a shaman's story between partisan generations. It remains that there is no logical argument to defeat the proposition "that the electoral college is a subversion of the principle of one-man-one-vote."
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