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Politics : Westi's Wild Ride -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (8344)	10/22/2004 1:59:08 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12762

Not quite. Unless you mean one state. The electoral count was Bush 271, Gore 266, 1 abstention. The total of electoral votes was 538. 50% of that is 269. Bush would have had to lose 2 votes to have less than an absolute majority. Had that happened, it would have gone to the House where there was a Republican majority and Bush would have been elected. I think small numbers are great, but when small numbers decide the fate of large numbers, then I think they better serve casinos than democracies. Well, since you dislike majorities deciding matters, you could move to a dictatorship. Then you will get the small numbers you like so well deciding matters- -one man.