rw wrote in news:418e4dc3$0$31225
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In the 2000 election Gore won the popular vote by about 500,000 votes,
but lost the election to Bush by the Electoral vote count.

In the 2004 election Bush won the popular vote by about 3,500,000 votes,
but if Kerry had gotten about 140,000 more votes in Ohio he would now be
the President-elect by virtue of a majority of Electoral votes.

Isn't it time to reform this stupid, broken system?


Actually, I'd feel a whole lot better about things if we actually had a
polling system that verifiably worked. Let's get that right, and then deal
with the Electoral College.

Scott