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To: seminole who wrote (81164)	12/9/2000 12:22:40 PM
From: que seria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

OT Richard: I like your pithy gold comments better: Without the electoral college their would be no crisis. Crisis? What crisis? I'd call it unsatisfied curiosity and impatience with the Constitutional process. Having to wait on it isn't too much to expect. Without the electoral college their would be no one state deciding the election. EVERY state has had an equal chance to decide the election. It just happened that Florida is the closest of the close, the only recount battleground, so it has the LAST word, not the deciding word. Had Gore carried Tennessee, Bush California, or had a hundred other voting scenarios occurred, it would be a different LAST state that got someone to 270. But each electoral vote essential to getting to 270 would be just as crucial, regardless of the date on which it was credited. Without the electoral college, we would have one man one vote. And most states between the East and West coasts could feel comparably disenfranchised. We've got a nice compromise--and it's a republic, not a democracy. This is not over. We now run the risk of one yahoo Bush elector . . . Yahoos in politics? Let's not go there.