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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (69317)	11/10/2000 7:02:29 PM
From: bigsablepoint	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Do we even need a President? I'm getting tired of this whole process. Let's just get a King back, things were so much easier back then. If we don't like the King we can have a revolution and cut his head and his wife's head off and get a new King. Then we can invade Canada and loot their villages. What do you say?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (69317)	11/10/2000 7:16:26 PM
From: Cola Can	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Just wondering if there is any possibility that some electors (in Florida or elsewhere for that matter) may not vote they way they are "supposed to" next month when the REAL Presidential election takes place. I think it has happened in a few rare cases in the past. And given an election that is so amazingly close both in the nation as a whole and in the key state of Florida, I'm wondering if that is more likely to happen than usual. Yes, they could vote the other way, in any state. Personally, I'm for scrapping the Electoral College system. And this is one reason. The Electoral College was devised at a time when democracy was untested. The founding fathers feared the public would be prone to radical changes if given a direct vote. 200 plus years of history is testimony to the moderation of the American public. The founding fathers feared radical changes? We have that now. The Electoral College system didn't create this problem. In fact, it has prevented the problem from being wide spread. The Electoral College system has confined the controversy to one state, as it is now. If the Electoral system were removed, and the Popular Vote being so close, every county, in every state would be affected. If Gore threatens legal action, Iowa, Wisconsin, Oregan, possibly Calif, will go through what Florida just went through. If Gore accepts defeat, like other Democrats urge him to do, this will be over next week. Gore is the key to dragging this out, not the Electoral College system. The closness of the vote helped bring about a recount, in one state. With almost 100 million votes cast, and such a small sepreation between Gore and Bush, the Popular Vote system would cause all states to do a re-count. Hillary was to remove the Electoral. Not even in office yet, and true to Democrat fashion, wants to screw up a good thing.