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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5627)	11/12/2000 10:31:48 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Of the 50 sates, Bush won 34, Gore won 16 Of the 67 Florida counties, Bush won 51, Gore won 16 The people have spoken, its Al Gore by a land slide Sig ( minor in math)

To: epicure who wrote (5627)	11/12/2000 10:54:01 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

It seems to me that claiming the popular vote as the will of the people has some problems with it, particularly since the media screwed up so spectacularly with the the early predictions (accurate or not)and may have caused a lot of people to not vote. Also people in states (like Texas) who knew that their state was going with certainty for their candidate might have chosen to not stand in line for two hours or fight the weather or whatever, because their vote didn't really "matter". (And will anyone doubt this ever again!!) this happened to some high school workers I know who tried to vote during their lunch hour. If people had thought the popular count were the determining factor, I think turnout would have been much higher. I'm with you on starting over-- where do we find better candidates? (I still like the literary wives of the Rep. party the best)