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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chomolungma who wrote (1563)	11/10/2000 2:36:32 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 6710

Re: The popular vote It is important to remember two things about the popular vote: 1. Neither Bush nor Gore received a majority of the popular vote. Whoever prevails, arguments about the "will of the people" are at best spurious since more than half of the voting electorate will not have voted for the winner. This will be a minority presidency no matter who is eventually inaugurated as the 43rd president. 2. The current national popular vote totals are preliminary totals which currently show a difference of approximately 200 thousand out of more than 100 million votes cast. With millions of absentee ballots yet to be counted at the national level nobody can say for certain who will eventually "win" the popular vote. A final point worth noting when discussing "disenfranchisement". Sadly, roughly half of the electorate voluntarily disenfranchised themselves in this election by not bothering to vote at all. One positive outcome to be hoped for from this mess is a broader realization that every vote really does count and that citizens should make every effort to exercise their right to vote. Higher voter turnouts in future elections will be a result we can all be proud of.