who the HELL pissed in Chris's Wheaties this fine morning?
>What does Bush being Gov of FL have to do with it? It only says to me that
>the constituents have already shown they prefer right minded (pardon the
>pun) reps over the dems. Geez, Gore lost in his own state. Maybe there was
>massive fraud there, no?
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>And the Buchanon thing, come-on. That's the way the votes were layed out in
>many other areas. Perhaps we should have a nationwide re-election? Our
>fore-fathers enacted a system because they believed the general public was
>not educated enough to make an informed decision and you would vote for the
>people who would make that decision for you (the electoral college). Given
>that there is a public out-cry over the inability to fathom how the ballot
>works, perhaps it's indicative of the brilliance of our founding fathers and
>that in 214 years the people are still illiterate buffoons who need to be
>told what's best for them.
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> > now tell me if it were the other way around, there wouldn't be a violent
> > reaction in parts of the "heartland" and the south.
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>Yea, maybe you'll see rioting like all those republicans did when OJ got
>acquitted, or look at the rioting by the hoardes of republicans celebrating
>the victory of thier cities basketball teams in Chicago and LA over the past
>10 years. There's also that 1968 Chicago Republican Convention if I recall.
>Oh, how about all them republicans in Seattle this year who started rioting
>when those peacefull leftist-minded folks of the WTO were getting together.
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>Republicans have a long history of violence protest in recent years.