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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (98512)	12/2/2000 3:33:47 PM
From: lawdog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

And you claim to possess great logical reasoning ability! I now understand your attraction to Bush, the man who named his dog 'Spot'.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (98512)	12/2/2000 3:55:17 PM
From: Roger A. Babb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Thomas, it is a simple fact that Gore received more votes than Bush nationwide. It also appears that more voters in Florida "tried" to vote for Gore than for Bush and that various technicalities where used by the controlling Republican party in Florida to swing the results to Bush. But that is not to say that the Democrats would not have done the same stuff if they were in control of Florida. By your "will of the people" argument, Gore should win. The only purpose of the electoral college process is to allow exceptions to be made to electing the person with the most votes, ie over ride the "will of the people" when the other candidate is obviously a better choice. Obviously Jeb thinks his brother is a better choice! This whole process stinks. We need a simple way to just count the votes and put the winner in office.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (98512)	12/3/2000 11:15:27 AM
From: rajaggs	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

My Dear Watson, What I said was correct. More people voted for Al Gore to be President, than voted for G W Bush. Right.?? Only losers try to twist things around and start counting square miles and counties, when their guy has lost the popular vote. If Bush had class (which he doesn't) and the nation's interest at heart, he would acknowledge that Gore won the popular vote and should be President, if there are any problems with the counting in a state run by Bush's brother.