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To: Mike Buckley who wrote (7988)	11/10/2000 12:44:18 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22706

just heard on CNN : bush leads by about 225 votes in FL. the point u make is very interesting. -ckr@backtothebooks.pov

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (7988)	11/10/2000 12:49:05 AM
From: FaultLine	Respond to of 22706

I keep picturing a few delegates thinking, "I'm retired, have enough money...what the hell, I'm going down in history today..." Could happen! --cfl

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (7988)	11/10/2000 1:17:54 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22706

why wouldn't the other candidate campaign the electoral college members from the 25 states that aren't bound to vote as the populace voted? why shouldn't they? honor, IMO. Both sides openly stated, both before and after the election, that they would abide by the electoral college rather than the popular vote, clearly meaning by that the original electoral college vote totals, and I think that to go back on that would be shameful. (Let it be said here, however, that ctg disagrees here, and thinks that it would be no more shameful than accepting victory when you and everyone else in the country know that a majority of the people who voted in the decisive state preferred the other guy.) Why wouldn't they? Shame? Fear they wouldn't be able to pull it off thanks to popular outrage? More moral wife's private pledge to divorce them if they considered it? it could happen, but it's a low probability, IMO. Course, if it could be engineered so that it seemed spontaneous, with no connection to the campaign in question.... ctb/A@don'tgothere.com

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (7988)	11/10/2000 2:44:15 AM
From: EnricoPalazzo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22706

If either candidate is ahead by such a small margin, why wouldn't the other candidate campaign the electoral college members from the 25 states that aren't bound to vote as the populace voted? Jacob Weisberg suggested (on slate.msn.com) that Gore concede now and lobby the electoral college to support him. The problem is, the parties are extremely careful to select only highly loyal electors. If Bush wins Oregon, Gore would need to persuade 10 electors out of 278. No way.