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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (32733)	10/31/2000 5:01:09 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

I may have this a bit screwed up, but didn't it used to be that a State's house representatives elected the Federal Senators? The founding Fathers didn't trust the idiot masses as far as they could throw them. Now we set policy by mass opinion polls of Jay Leno's JayWalkers. -g-

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (32733)	10/31/2000 5:21:08 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Respond to of 436258

i know. i think Bubba's the most recent example, no?

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (32733)	10/31/2000 5:39:40 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

jjsirius-- >>>Popular presidential votes have been overruled a number of times.<<< Not really-- jceb.co.jackson.mo.us Benjamin Harrison's election in 1888 is really the only clear-cut instance in which the Electoral College vote went contrary to the popular vote. This happened because the incumbent, Democrat Grover Cleveland, ran up huge popular majorities in several of the 18 States which supported him while the Republican challenger, Benjamin Harrison, won only slender majorities in some of the larger of the 20 States which supported him (most notably in Cleveland's home State of New York). Even so, the difference between them was only 110,476 votes out of 11,381,032 cast - less than 1% of the total. Interestingly, in this case, there were few critical issues (other than tariffs) separating the candidates so that the election seems to have been fought - and won - more on the basis of superior party organization in getting out the vote than on the issues of the day.