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::Yep, realise that's not how it works.  It's an interesting and quite deliberate part of the design on behalf of the founding fathers.  It's not about winning a majority of the voters across the nation, it's about winning a majority of the voters in the right number of states, with smaller states deliberately getting more than their proportional weight of the electoral college.  I think it's a beautiful system that works as well with 50 states in 2004 as it does with 13 (vote counting issues aside!).  Whether a particular president won a plurality, or absolute majority, of the vote is of interest for that very reason - it illustrates the system working exactly the way it's designed to work.  Bush got the votes he needed in the states he needed - Gore did not.  Simple as that, isn't it?  (OK, it wasn't THAT simple, but let's not go there!) [[User:Ferret|Ferret]] 05:57, 8 August 2007 (EDT)

::Yep, realise that's not how it works.  It's an interesting and quite deliberate part of the design on behalf of the founding fathers.  It's not about winning a majority of the voters across the nation, it's about winning a majority of the voters in the right number of states, with smaller states deliberately getting more than their proportional weight of the electoral college.  I think it's a beautiful system that works as well with 50 states in 2004 as it does with 13 (vote counting issues aside!).  Whether a particular president won a plurality, or absolute majority, of the vote is of interest for that very reason - it illustrates the system working exactly the way it's designed to work.  Bush got the votes he needed in the states he needed - Gore did not.  Simple as that, isn't it?  (OK, it wasn't THAT simple, but let's not go there!) [[User:Ferret|Ferret]] 05:57, 8 August 2007 (EDT)