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To: tejek who wrote (160205)	2/6/2003 1:07:47 PM
From: jjayxxxx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578905

Re: Electoral College I think the electoral college is an incredibly good thing. While it would be nice to use the popular vote, the implementation of it would dramatically change (for the worse) the way campaigns are run. Mostly this is due to the 'winner take all' aspect of each states EC votes. Think about it, with a popular vote, the contenders would spend all of their time in NY, LA, Chicago, etc. I'm not sure I'm making myself clear - by getting all of the EC votes for little ole [insert small state here] the contenders actually campaign there. Every state becomes important, not just the highly populated ones. It makes for some weird results (ala '00). But in the end it is a much better process - the country as a whole is much better served. You can't really say for sure that Gore would have won an election based on the popular vote because it wasn't campaigned that way. Who knows, he may have gotten an even higher percentage. Doesn't matter though, because that isn't how it works. Just my humble opinion, JJ

To: tejek who wrote (160205)	2/6/2003 2:31:22 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1578905

Ted Re...Rightly or wrongly, Bush had a better perception of integrity. Rightly or wrongly, he fooled people into believing he had integrity. Whatever, in the end the result was the same, Gw won because he had a better perception of honesty. Let me remind you, smearing or no smearing, Gore get more of the popular vote than Bush! Let me put this another way.......more Americans wanted Gore for president than Bush in spite of the fact Gore lost millions of votes to Nader. Boo Hoo, so true and so sad. Too bad Al wasn't sharp enough to realize, it is electoral votes, not popular votes which wins the election. Think about it.........the man who would be president is Mr. Bush Now, now Ted, don't go and contradict yourself again. Why just yesterday, you said Gw was the winner. Have you reneged on that statement.