Nope. No typo. The original poster asked a question that sounded ambiguous

to me. But if the question were put to me as to how Bush got in there, I'd

be inclided to say "our good luck!"

But since you bring it up, I found it interesting that Gore's home state

(where he was a Senator?) overwhelmingly went for Bush. The people that

knew the most about Gore supported him the least. Bush was vice-versa - his

state was overwhelmingly in favor of him. The people that knew the most

about Bush supported him the most. I see a message in that. Sort of like I

was concerned about China pumping huge amounts of money into Clinton's

campaign. Not that there was any conspiracy there (I haven't seen any

conclusive proof). But, when a foreign power, of a conflicting

philosophical viewpoint, supports one of our politicians so strongly it

makes me wonder why? Does that politician embrace their philosophy and has

just hidden it from us?

As for the popular vote, there's somewhat of a fallacy there. What happened

in this last election in several states was the counting was stopped when

it was determined the remaining outstanding ballots couldn't possibly swing

the result. Added to this is the fact that most states are a all-or-nothing

type allotment of electoral votes (so they don't feel any need to get a

final accurate tally). Of course, everyone's attention was on Florida in

the end. As it turns out, Bush's lead actually increased substantially in

the final tally (some newspaper paid for the remainder of the effort to

tally the votes - and that was the result - although it wasn't publicized

very well).

Sounds like you don't like the concept of the electoral college. I don't

either. I think it was originally set up to help organize a widely

disbursed population when long distance communication took weeks to

accomplish. Some say it was set up to always give the appearance of a

'significant margin of victory' for the winner. Phooey <g>. I think we've

outgrown the need for the electoral college and we should get rid of it. I

think we'd save time and money without it. And I think it would certainly

give everyone more hopefulness that their vote would count. I know lots of

conservatives that live in liberal states that don't bother to vote - they

know it won't matter because of the all-or-nothing electoral votes and

being way outnumbered (and I know liberals in conservative states feeling

the same way).

>>Who? How Clinton got in there? He snuck in - IMO.

>

> Hmm... is that a typo? Surely you meant Bush, who lost the

> popular vote.

>

> I wonder what his campaign slogan will be in 4 years? Maybe

> "Re-Appoint the President!" ?