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To: Dealer who wrote (12852)	11/8/2000 10:06:03 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Okay, okay, I see ya point! <g> And abstract just said the same thing. Well everything's red this morning. I don't know if its the uncertainty affecting the market, or if it's that neither candidate really has a mandate--it was so close.

To: Dealer who wrote (12852)	11/8/2000 10:28:04 AM
From: freeus	Respond to of 65232

The electoral college is very important for two reasons aside from "tradition". One is that it gives rural areas a voice and gives candidates a reason to try to talk to people everywhere. And the second is that we should NOT have a democracy; a representative democracy is much "safer": people should not be able to vote out other people's individual rights: that's why we are supposed to have an enforced Constitution and a Bill of rights that can not be voted away even by the majority. The problem is our three parts of govt no longer check and balance each other. Freeus