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

To: TraderGreg who wrote (3921)	11/29/2000 3:11:29 PM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

One more thing on Freeman...his posit to Gore: <<Mr. Gore, think of your grandson, who with luck and God's help could live in this great country for another 80, 90, maybe even 100 years or more. Do you want him to live in a land where Election Day is simply the first phase of a trial, the starting point for litigation? Do you want him to live in a country where un-elected lawyers and judges pick our presidents? Do you want him to grow up in an America that stands as a symbol of dysfunctional democracy for the entire world? >> That is the electoral equivalent of yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater. He is pre-supposing that every future election will come down to ONE state with less than 1/100 of one percent separating the two candidates. I'm not saying it can't happen again, but it certainly is not the base case. Moreover, does anyone really doubt that if all the players here were in reversed positions that things would be going any differently? And please, no comparisons to 1960 and 1976...those were blow out differentials by comparison to the FL situation plus they involved TWO STATES in both elections. See my prior post: Message 14893704 TG