Putting aside the tilt to Bush and the absurdity of any thought that Nader had any intention of causing this particular, bizarre result, is that a bad thing or a good thing? Aren't we better off without an electoral college?
mbs
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> Well, Nader and the Greens can take great pride in precipitating a
> constitutional crisis. They didn't get the 5% but the impact could not have
> been greater.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at tsoft.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Lonely on LBO
>
>
>
> It's 1:23p on the west coast and the vote separation is down to less than a
> thousand in Florida (224 vote lead for Bush). The network anchors are
> stunned,
> meanwhile the state officials in Florida are facing a manditory re-count.
>
> Man this is close.
>
> Breathless. Meanwhile the popular west coast votes are stacking
> up as a Gore popular lead of fifty thousand. So, we are set up with an
> electorial college going one way and the popular vote the other.
>
> Chuck Grimes
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