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To: jjayxxxx who wrote (160303)	2/7/2003 2:44:33 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578902

I think the NW and heartland are already overlooked. I disagree. They came to Portland for the last election anyway. Maybe not as much as the biggies, but they did at least stop by a couple times. I think they come both Portland and Seattle and they will do so without the EC. But they will never hit a Klamath Falls or Longview with or without an EC....so what does it matter? As for my comment re the NW, we don't have a huge population here....so we don't carry the weight that say a CA or a TX carries. However, assuming you are right and they are already overlooked, if the election was purely by popular vote it would be a mess. Campaigns would focus on heavily populated areas leaving the other areas even further in the cold than they already are. That's what Brian said.........but how many small towns are they hitting? I again bring up the Longview/Klamath Falls example. Plus, a close election would make the whole country a Florida-like mess. How? Why? If there was a FLA like mess, there should have been a total recount......a presidential election is one of our most important elections; it should treated with a certain respect. We are willing to spend billion to bomb other countries, why can't we spend millions on our democracy? But I really don't think there are that many places as corrupted as FLA.......so I don't see how an EC less country would open a can of worms. I think it needs to be abolished particularly when it can subvert the will of the people like it did in the last presidential election. I know you aren't an old dog, so why not learn something here? Had the vote been popular-based the results would have likely been significantly different. But in which direction we'll never know because it wasn't campaigned that way. As it was, they campaigned in the states that were close. Had it been popular-based, they would have campaigned in populous states instead. In other words, the will of the people was precisely what resulted - GWB became president - because that was the way the election was campaigned and run. Sorry, I don't see it that way........IMO you're breaking things down too much into the state levels.......what should count is the popular vote nationwide. Gore won that vote......that's the will of the people. Any speculation what else might have happened is just that.....speculation. ted