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To: Selectric II who wrote (22710)	12/8/2000 9:20:18 AM
From: freeus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Here's something interesting on ideas on the Electoral Collge and why "We've had close presidential elections before, but this one is emblematic >of dangerous, unbridgeable and growing gaps among the American people. Some >of this can be seen by examining a map showing U.S. counties won by George >Bush and those won by Al Gore. > >In general, the densely populated counties along the East and West coasts, >Midwestern counties mostly along the Mississippi River and a smattering >of counties in the southwest were won by Gore. But if the election were to >be decided by who won the greatest number of the nation's 3,142 counties, >Bush would have bested Gore by at least 2,500 counties. > >While who won how many counties is irrelevant to the presidential selection >process, it says something about the degree of national polarization. What >are the characteristics of counties won by Bush versus those won by Gore? What it really says is that the Democrats were able to control matters to their choosing in the centralized urban centers. It's much easier to focus advertising there. It's also easier to pull 1960s-type shenanigans."