Re: [microsound] war

["walrus and the carpenter" <chewybach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gore lost his own home state of Tennesee. That is why Gore lost the
election. Nader took a small percentage of votes from those that wouldn't
have voted for Gore or Bush so who cares? Gore lost because of Gore and a
company called Choicepoint.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Zvonar" <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] war

> At 5:46 PM +0200 4/6/03, azerty/imachination rec. wrote:
>
> >As you should know, i don't remember that the majority of americans
clearly
> >voted for bush, there was a sort of strange mess with elections that gave
> >few protests, am i wrong ?
>
>
> The electoral system in the US is not based purely on the popular
> vote, but uses a system called the Electoral College. Each state has
> a certain number of Electors who are chosen to represent the voters
> of that state. The number of Electors is equal to the number of the
> state's Representatives and Senators. It is customary for all of each
> state's Electors to cast their votes according to the popular
> majority vote in their state, so it is possible for a candidate to
> lose in the popular vote but to win the election.
>
> In the 2000 election Bush had 327,966 fewer popular votes than Al
> Gore, but had 4 more electoral votes.
>
> http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm
>
> Some people blame Gore's loss of the election to "spoiler" candidate
> Ralph Nader, whose Green Party voter resulted in the loss of both New
> Hampshire and Florida. A Gore win in these states would have given
> him the election, with 295 to Bush's 242 electoral votes.
>
> http://www.fairvote.org/plurality/nader.htm
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