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To: Michelino who wrote (39534)	4/15/2004 3:35:25 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) of 793883

The Electoral College is nothing but an extremely rough approximation of the popular vote. So what's the problem? Other than you didn't like the result... 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. You assume a reasonable conclusion could have been drawn from Florida in all cases. That is specious. The EC provides a mechanism that prevents hard cases like Florida turning into true Constitutional crises. It is precisely in situations like Florida that the EC proves its worth. 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. What is at issue is the realities on the ground, not the "what could have beens". The 60 election was squeeky close, there were debatable districts Nixon could have challenged, but didn't. As in 2000, if the election hinged only on popular vote instead of the EC the result may have been many times messier. Derek

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