Re: Send a message by voting for Bush

From: Steve Turner (spam_at_spam.net)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:21:07 GMT

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:18:08 GMT, "Lise" <liseb17@verizon.net> wrote:

>Technically we *didn't* vote Bush into office; if you'll recall, Al Gore won
>more of the popular vote (i.e. the majority of people voting in the 2000
>election voted for him) instead of more of the electoral vote, which is only
>partly based on how people actually voted.

Irrelevant. U.S. Presidents are not elected by popular vote.

Steve Turner

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