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Sixteen million people were almost evenly divided in who they wanted for President, with a margin of a few hundred. Florida's votes, which decided the vote of the nation and which are supposed to represent the will of (the people of) Florida, represented only half of the population.
I felt this more strongly perhaps because in my state, regardless of how you cast your vote, all of the votes of the state will be cast for the same contestant. We have the most lopsided ratio of Elephant and Donkey voters in the nation.
Well.. actually, the power of the President is largely based upon how much support they have amongst the public. Our opinions do matter in the grand scheme of things. Bush's lack of legitimacy (lack of a clear, uncontested public vote in his favor) hurt him until September 11th 2001, when the nation decided to support the President. The same story would have happened to Gore.
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