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

To: Bill who wrote (309194)	10/17/2002 12:02:52 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Eh? Re: "Since the electoral college is mandated in the constitution as the only method of election and because it is a representative in nature, Tom's 16 million vote margin has more validity than the nationwide popular vote count (which isn't even mentioned in the constitution)." >>> Really????????? >>> Please explain: where in either the Electoral College (where it only takes 271 votes to win), or in the national popular vote totals for the 2000 election... where ANYWHERE is Tommie's ridiculous imaginatory claim of a "16 million 'population vote'" win for Bush recorded? >>> Where are these 'votes' recorded? >>> Notice: that's the word he used over and over... he called them "16 million VOTES". >>> That's all I ever asked Tommie to answer: where were these '16 million votes' counted? >>> If you can show me where the ballot boxes were, I'd love to know. >>> Not "could have, should have, if the moons were lined up properly and Elvis came back from the dead, we would have...." >>> Poor Tommie claimed these were actual VOTES. >>> (I explained that people who stayed home on their sofas and didn't register votes don't get to be counted in the election... but somehow this simple fact eluded him. The Web site he posted to back up this joke refers to crime statistics, and the square miles of counties... but it doesn't call such sociological brick-a-brack "votes". >>> Only poor Tommie made that idiotic leap. >>> All I ever asked was: SHOW ME THE VOTES! Message 18122443