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12-17-2000, 09:29 PM | #2 |
Time For Your Wake Up Call !!!
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Shocked to say the least !
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12-17-2000, 09:31 PM | #3 |
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I'm gonna bet that a LOT of nursing homes used absentee ballots... More than usual... Maybe even some creative ones....
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12-17-2000, 09:43 PM | #4 |
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Posts like these do a lot to maintain your credibility, TheFly. Thanks for following-up with the numbers once they were available.
I'm of the opinion that the popular vote in the presidential election doesn't mean all that much, given the winner-take-all nature of our electoral-college system. Many voters probably chose not to vote because they lived in states where a blow-out was expected. The bottom line is that we don't know who would have won a truly decisive popular vote. Be that as it may, I try to vote regardless of my preferred candidates' chances. I'm so used to voting for losers that my rationalization for voting isn't so much to affect the outcome as it is to help the turnout in my precinct-I believe that the precincts with the best turnouts on election day are likely to get better city services the rest of the year than the precincts that are full of folks who don't take their citizenship seriously. [img]http://www.chiefsplanet.com/ubb/wink.gif[/img] |
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12-17-2000, 10:12 PM | #5 |
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Thankya, thankya very much...
In all seriousness, I'd rather see the electoral college awarded by congressional districts. That would have prevented the sad and sorry incidents we saw in Florida, as all of the electoral votes across the country would have been in play, rather than winner take all over a handful of votes... I hope that will happen in my lifetime...<BR> |
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