Popular Vote and Election

[Jacob Segal]

I was curious if anyone had thoughts on the ultimate popular vote outcome.
Gore leads by .2 percent or 200,000 votes, but apparently millions of
absentee and votes are still outstanding. About 1.1 million of these votes
are from California. The conventional wisdom is that absentee votes favor
republicans, but CNN noted the other days that a week after the 1996
election, three million additional votes had been counted and Clinton's
victory margin had increased by half a million.  Obviously, the
"legitimacy" of the victor is related to who win the popular vote.

Jacob Segal