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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (18)	11/11/2000 10:27:13 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

I have never lived in a low population state, but I can't imagine the people who do wanting to give up their disproportionate representation in Congress* or in Presidential races* I don't understand. How would they be giving up their representation by eliminating the electorial college? Large states have a large number of electorial college votes - small states, a small number. I don't see how letting each vote count would change things - except for what's happening in Florida right now. And I don't think one state should be the one calling the election. Does it seem right that one candidate has, lets say 2 million more votes nationwide, and lacks 400 votes in one state, that the election should swing on that? It doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem to me to be a fair representation of what the majority of the people want (small as that majority is). BTW: I'd actually like to see Bush win but I'd like to see it done the right way. Between the two, I think Bush has a better chance of bringing the country together after this bollux - but it'll stay with him (or Gore) for the next 4 years. It will not be a happy presidency for either one of them.

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (18)	11/13/2000 8:11:23 AM
From: Alfred W. Post	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Living in Switzerland,sometimes calle the world's oldest democracy, I watch with amazment the circus arond this election. It is a shame that the country who time and agin tells others how to implement true democracy is giving the world such a shamful case history on how not to do it. And on second thought I assume that in no other country computers are so commonplace like in the USA, yet in a simple process of counting votes with the help of computers one sees now how miserable the execution is. As far as I am concerned the USA is getting a black eye all over the world. Any coments??? Fred from Switzerland